The Informant! Movie Reviews

The Informant, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in US history. But those expecting The Insider Part 2 might be a little taken aback by the film's brazenly comic tone. Matt Damon put on 30 pounds and a moustache to play Mark Whitacre, a top exec at an agricultural conglomerate that's engaging in a multinational price-fixing scam. Set in the early 80s, the film tracks Whitacre as he volunteers

Corporate crimes have acquired a whole new importance and become Hollywood's favourite subject every since Enron, the Lehman Brothers et al. But The Informant! is such a compelling picture of a corporate criminal, it catapults you to the edge of your seat after a langorous beginning that tends to lull you into a sense of false security. But hey, just don't sit back and think that this one's just another flick about corrupt trade practices

Lies, deceit and fraud form the basic elements of this brilliant drama about a whistleblower who sets out to expose the corrupt underbelly of his company, but ends up wrapped in a web of his own false statements. Mark Whitacre (Damon) decides to tell on the illegal proceedings in his company to succeed against the competitors thereby compromising on product value, to the FBI. What seems like an ordinary joint operation between

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, scripted by Scott Z. Burns, based on the book The Informant (A True Story) by Kurt Eichenwald, this film is a light-hearted goofy take on the zealous but wildly delusional whistleblower, Mark Whitacre (a chubbed-out Damon), a biochemist suffering from a bi-polar condition, who was a rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). The script is a compressed version of the 600-pager true story