Film review--The Informant

THE INFORMANT

starring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Clancy Brown, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson, and Ben Affleck as The Beav

The FBI heads into a price-fixing investigation of an Illinois agricultural company called ADM. In doing so, they are completely reliant upon one man on the inside (Damon.) Unfortunately, this man begins to believe he is a real secret agent and the truth becomes difficult to discern from the lies.

This film was not at all as I expected. The description above is more or less the one that came to us on the Netflix envelope. To me, it suggests a rather benevolent, Walter Mitty-like main character. What you get instead is a true life story of mental illness. This is not to say that it results in a bad film. On the contrary, it is quite funny in places and Matt Damon's performance is capable and compelling as always. Yet I just could not shake the sense that the film was missing something. Just not sure what that "something" is. Still, it was good to see Biff (Wilson) from Back to the Future getting work.

RATING: AIOK (Aaeeeehhhh, It's OK)

NOTE: I am rather backlogged on reviews to write and I'm not getting the same enjoyment out of them as I used to. Therefore, I am uncertain as to how much longer I will continue them. Just giving you the heads up.