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Reviewed By: Lord High Rikonian ( 10/19/2009 7:35:35 AM)
Rating: 3.00 pointless voiceovers
Genre: Comedy drama based on real events
Starring: Jason Bourne, the time traveller who ruined Star Trek, a bunch of people in suits
Plot: Matt Damon is Mark Whitacre, a goofy ADM exceutive who blows the whistle on a large price fixing scheme, goes undercover for the FBI and is an effective but amusingly bumbling undercover mole for the feds. Then, things start to fall apart, as Mark kind of becomes unglued. Quite frankly, the whole story is kind of ludicrously unbelievable. Which is quite common of stories based on things that really happened, apparently. People who make up their stories can't get away with the same hack writing that reality can, apparently.
The actual movie itself was pretty good. Damon is funny, Scott Bakula makes a great straight-man for his antics, and there is a certain amount of suspense in the film over what will become of Mark Whitacre. My one complaint is the voiceovers. You see, the movie has these voiceovers throughout of Damon musing, as Whitacre, about inane stuff. It's like the voiceover musings that Ed Norton did in Fight Club. Except those were good and helped push the movie along. The random voiceover observations in the Informant, on the other hand, just dragged me out of the picture. Looking back, I think maybe it wasn't so much that they were bad in this movie, but that there were too many of them.
Actually, the movie kind of reminded me, stylistically, of another film adaptation of a Chuck Palasomethignorother book, Choke. Sure Matt Damon wasn't faking choking to death in restaurants to make connections, but he had the same sort of lost craziness to him, and the film had the same sort of dark yet funny path to self-destructiveness.
Come to think of it, he did mention in a random musing that he saved a guy from choking in a restaurant and gets a card from him. I wonder if it was the guy from Choke. That'd be something.
Viewing Advice: I'd say this movie is worth a look, as a rental or on cable. But I would not advise buying the DVD. Unless they have some good features.
Also, if you're a Transformer's fan, pay attention to the scene with Whitacre's dad in it. That's what Megatron and Soundwave really look like!
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