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The Informant! (2009)

Crime | 108 minutes
2,73 673 votes

Genre: Crime / Comedy

Duration: 108 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Stars: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula and Melanie Lynskey

IMDb score: 6,5 (69.603)

Releasedate: 17 September 2009

The Informant! plot

"Based on a tattle-tale"

The U.S. government decides to sue a large agri-business when Vice President Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) decides to testify about the shady business of ADM. As the FBI tries to close the case, they grow increasingly frustrated with Whitacre's vivid imagination.

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Panoramix

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Hard to follow at times, but Damon is rock solid and the story fascinating. After the film you are still somewhat despondent. Nice addition are those thoughts of Whitacre that go from scratch. Finally, even a poignant scene when Marc's wife asks him to finally stop lying in the conversation about Dr. Miller with Sheppard. All in all a good movie. Nice to watch again with the knowledge of the outcome; maybe you'll pick up some more then .

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flaphead

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Entertaining film, nice and light-hearted approach, while the story itself could also have been given a serious crime-drama approach (especially if you consider that it is true). Oh well, just those over-the-top '70s music clearly pulls the atmosphere to the humorous side, it's funny to see how much influence that has. Of course that's also because almost all characters are a bit fattened, although it doesn't seem that way at first. Nicely done subtly.
Lots of nice things, it's funny to see new 'bobos' gradually, because it has gone one step higher. The amount that is already rising. Mike's increasingly pathetic behavior. The 70's vs 90's mixup in design.
Perhaps the story is also a bit over the top and it takes just a little too long for the same trick, but it doesn't get annoying and this is a perfect snack.

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Lovelyboy

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Film where the first time I was like what should I do with this and that is not much different so many years later. And that seems to be mainly because it is not clear where the film is going or what exactly Soderbergh had in mind, and perhaps that in those same thoughts it was fantastic, the effect, on the other hand, is far from that.

It's not the story in the first place because with the so-called price fixing, fraud, extortion and meddling by the FBI there is enough for a good story, let alone the colorful figure that Marc Whitacre could be. Now I have to say that I don't have much with Soderbergh, the few films that succeed can immediately be called very good with The Jac

ket and Traffic, sometimes it just doesn't get through like in the case of Che, or just doesn't mean anything to me in the case of Good Night And Good Luck, the entire Oceans series and the disappointing Contagion. It's often just not it all and as far as The Informant is concerned, Soderbergh makes it very colorful, only a few moments of humor are nice, for example the moment where Withacre tries to get his recording device to work in the middle of a room full of people. It is of course far too little and this is mainly due to the tone.

Disturbing from the start is that cheerful elevator music. The idea and style has to be funny or corny, but I don't like it. Then there's the chatty Whitacre himself who constantly repeats the strangest tidbits in voice overs. Yes, I understand that the purpose is to show that there is something wrong with the man, yet the image is too faint and it does not come across at all that this is ultimately a mentally ill man with a bipolar disorder. Other than that, The Informant is not captivating, interesting or exciting and quite a waste of time. This Soderbergh can be forgotten very quickly or better still skipped and I wonder what Soderbergh. had in mind.

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