The Informant!

[Endymion]

Anyone else catch this one yet? I thought Damon was good, but overall, the film was a little lacking. My full review is right here...

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[Harvey]

I'm looking forward to it, although the reviews have been mixed. Maybe next week...

 

[royalfan5]

I really enjoyed it. However, I deal with ADM on a very regular basis, and know people who worked with Mark Whitacre, so that gave me a little different perspective on the movie.

 

[Harvey]

I didn't love the film, but I enjoyed it. A solid B. At certain points, it lacked narrative drive, although by the third act pace was not a problem in any way.

 

[bluedana]

I'll curve it up from a B+ to an A. I work with both the FBI (and other agencies) and informants a lot, and this movie got so many of the little almost invisible details just right.

I didn't like the score, though, at all. It was too cutesy and distracting, almost as if the movie were set in the late 60s, early 70s instead of the 90s.

 

[Dark Gilligan]

I didn't like the score, though, at all. It was too cutesy and distracting, almost as if the movie were set in the late 60s, early 70s instead of the 90s.

Look at the clothing. The hair cuts. The tech. Even the stylized font used in the credits. The movie was set in the 70s (at least artistically) even though the events took place in the 1990s.

 

[JacksonArcher]

I'm really looking forward to this. I've heard some very good things about it, even though the trailer didn't really seem that funny to me at all, I think this will be one of those "hard to market, hard to succinctly truncate to a trailer" type of films.

 

[Dick Whitman]

There were only about 6 people in my theatre on Saturday afternoon. But we were all laughing our asses off!

Part of understanding this film is that Damon's character sees himself as heroic. Which explains a score that is heavily influenced by John Barry's early Bond work. The appeal is to appreciate the absurdity of what is going on and to realize that shockingly all of this really happened. I really enjoyed it a lot!

 

[Harvey]

I think the key to the best parts of this film is Damon's narration. He's entirely unreliable as a narrator, a fact that quickly becomes apparent. His narration, which juts off into completely unrelated topics to the plot (but entirely related to his character), often drowns out other characters when they talk about things that would be important in another version of this movie. But they're not important here.

I might raise my grade to an A upon seeing this one again. My appreciation is only growing as I sit on it.