The Informant!

Micransix Crappy film

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

jaystradamus78 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!

Matt Greene Soderbergh walks the line between absurd hilarity & grounded sadness so well in this true story of a not-all-there whistleblower. Damon gives one of his greatest most underrated, performances. He's playing a man who desperately wants to speak & for people to hear him, even if what he's saying is untrue or uninteresting. The movie gets a bit unwieldy when the details are coming out, but it's still a quirky & wonderful example of how the human element can ruin even the best laid plans.

lennart-73652 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.

TheMarwood 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.