I'm a sucker for a good performance. However, a good performance does not make a good movie, as is the case with Matt Damon and The Informant!In the flick, Damon plays bumbling, corporate-whistle-blower Mark Whitacre. The Informant! is based on the real-life Mark Whitacre's adventures as an FBI informant at ADM, an agri-business giant suspected of price-fixing.
Even at 108 minutes, The Informant! drags. As as the director of Oceans 11, 12, and 13, Steven Soderbergh knows how to make a great quirky/funny crime film, but he misses the mark. Even the set design, costumes, and graphics feel wrong. The film is set in the slick corporate world of the 90s, but it has the look of bad 70s polyester. Even Whitacre's experience as an informant is neither funny nor suspenseful. The best parts of the satire are Damon's voice overs that bring the audience into Whitacre's bizarre mind. Damon's voice is extremely nuanced and the slightest inflection will make you chuckle.
However, that's the problem with The Informant!, it's a movie that wants to make you laugh out loud, but will only get a giggle or two.
Grade: B-
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