The Informant! (2009)

You won't be disappointed!

Touches You

Sorry, this movie sucks

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Extremely slow and boring start to the movie. Kicks up in the end where Matt Damon also redeems himself as the main thing that keeps this movie up. How he acts as the plot unravels towards the end is very good, though my first thought of him was that he looked ridiculous and was poorly casted to carry his role. The movie in general is actually very simple to watch which also makes it a little boring at first. There are no side stories/plots and no other interesting characters to develop. All you have to do is to wait for the plot to develop and for Matt Damon to step up towards the end.

Steven Soderbergh is always trying new things, so his movies are always, on some level, quite interesting.The Informant follows an executive who helps the FBI to investigate shenanigans at his company. As the story progresses, we got a lot of voiceovers from protagonist Matt Damon, but they rarely seem to relate to what's going on. It suggests that there is something going on below the surface, but it takes a long time to understand the totality of what is happening.Damon's character is an odd duck, enthusiastic and talkative but often talking when he shouldn't or leaving out important details.All of which is interesting enough, yet the movie tends to be a bit slow, and far less comedic than I was lead to believe by the trailer. There are certainly comedic elements, most notably a brilliantly odd Marvin Hamlisch score that combines elements of 70s cop movies and 60s comedies and musicals.Why does a movie that takes place in the '90s have a faux '70s soundtrack? I have no idea; there doesn't seem to be any real purpose to it. And that's a lot of my problem with this movie; it's elements, interesting or not, don't seem to connect with the story being told.In a way, The Informant seems like a movie you should watch twice, since the Damon's voice-over would probably make more sense with the context of the ending, but it's not a movie I would ever watch again. The Informant is mildly interesting, has a great track, and gets increasingly interesting towards the end, but overall I just didn't get much out of it.

I went to this film back in 2009 when it was released because I couldn't decide on what movie to see. I judged the film by the poster.Wow, what a huge mistake I made. This is the most boring movie ever (even Matt Damon couldn't save it!) The story is beyond flat, the acting is terrible and everything about it is terrible. I wish i could have gotten my one hour and forty eight minutes back because it felt like it dragged on and on and on.Please trust me when I say this is Matt Damon's worst film he has ever made. This gets a 1 star from me, and i wish I could bury every copy of it and let it never see the light of day. Run away from this film and don't let anyone else see it either. The less people that see it the better. I give The Informant! a 1/10.

The Informant! has a solid witty script, a fun performance by Damon as the man who can't seem to stop telling lies and has some of the ugliest cinematography from a studio picture in recent memory. Even with 35mm, when Soderbergh began to serve as his own DP his lighting was sloppy and his visuals unpolished - with the Red One camera, his visuals are downright heinous and his stylistic attempt at blowing out the highlights just backfires and makes this look like camcorder footage. There's enough good material here to survive the horrors of the cinematography. This based on a true story of a whistleblower who digs himself into a bottomless hole of lies and gets the prosecution running in every direction until they begin to suspect him, is pretty lightweight and enjoyable. Damon commits himself to this oddball character and while he's not the most sympathetic character, he is fascinating enough to watch as he spins a web of lies so complex, he becomes a wrecking ball of a human that destroys everyone around him. The Informant! doesn't have a lot of gravitas, but it's a strange little film about a strange man that's worth a watch.