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The Informant!

The Informant! (2009)

September. 18,2009
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6.5
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R
| Drama Comedy Crime

A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.

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Stometer
2009/09/18

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

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ReaderKenka
2009/09/19

Let's be realistic.

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BallWubba
2009/09/20

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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Kamila Bell
2009/09/21

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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jaystradamus78
2009/09/22

It was a interesting movie that's great for cable! I didn't think I would like it when it first came on after a movie I watched on purpose but I ended up being hooked in because the life of this snitch and the lies he told and the holes he dug himself was quite interesting! It's worth a watch once with emphasis on once!

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grantss
2009/09/23

Amazing story, made even more incredible by the fact that it is true. Starts slowly and looks like it is going to be a non-event, but then picks up the pace from about half way through. From then on it gathers momentum like an avalanche. The final scenes in the movie are manic and pretty funny. Steven Soderbergh crafts a great movie using this snowballing insanity and Matt Damon's acting skills. Damon is excellent in the lead role, and plays out of his comfort zone. Rather than a dapper hero, he is a nerdy, paranoid villain.Excellent movie, but requires some patience.

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SnoopyStyle
2009/09/24

It's 1992 Decatur, Il. Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) works for ADM developing lysine from corn. He tells his boss that he got a call from a Japanese competitor about a saboteur in their plant. The informer wants a $10M payoff. He is shocked when his boss calls the FBI. His wife Ginger (Melanie Lynskey) keeps telling him to just tell the truth. FBI Agent Shepard (Scott Bakula) investigates. Mark tells Shepard that this is actually a case of price fixing by ADM with their Japanese and Korean competitors.Steven Soderbergh has impregnated this with happy music and light comical narration throughout. Matt Damon is wildly manic as the sketchy upper management type. It's lightly comical take on a serious and probably boring corporate story. It's all in the performance of Matt Damon and trying to figure out how much of what he says is actually true.

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pemiteo
2009/09/25

Pathetic acting, pathetic script, pathetic movie.I am glad I didn't pay to see this one. Just watched it on TV. Well, watching it is a way of describing this. I stopped paying interest about 15 minutes form the start. I forced myself not to change the channel during commercials, but trust me it wasn't easy.I like Matt Damon, I really do, but his performance here will probably leave you downhearted, to say the least. On the other side I am not a very big fan of Soderbergh - yes I enjoyed some of his movies but I would not rate any of them higher than a 7/10 - and after this evening I would think twice before ever watching another one of his movies.What triggered me to write this review is that I felt the story had potential and this could have been a nice movie. But the result is simply pathetic. Just a big bloated waste of time.

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