I enjoyed The Informant! although I was confused as to what was going on for the first half hour. Matt Damon's Mark Whitacre was a very interesting character, constantly lying to everyone about everything. Which made me think of friend of mine who claims to be constantly buying the latest car or has just been hired by Sony as an executive or has whatever the latest illness is (such as swineflu, birdflu he's had 'em all), making me wonder if he's been bipolar all along. Mark Whitacre lies to his work, his wife, the fbi, the workmen doing up his land and fooling the majority of them too well although he finally gets caught up in his lies, to hilarious effect.
The style it's filmed in really reminds me of the Coen brothers (we were going to go see A Serious Man the same day but decided to watch something less heavy in content... see previous review to see how that turned out) , very quirky in style nothing like Soderburgh's Oceans films and not as epic as Che. Feels quite long for 1 hour 48 mins.
3 Stars
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