The Informant! tells the amazing based on real life story of Mark Whitacre, the whistle-blowing vice-president of ADM. It's a story so fantastic, there's got to be screenwriters kicking their legs over reality once again blowing away anything they ever could make up. Sadly, much like the recently reviewed Cracks, a story worth telling isn't necessarily the same as a story making it into a good movie.
Matt Damon does a good job portraying Whitacre, and at the end of the day you'll feel sorry for this guy. The problem for me is the fact I pretty much didn't care much during most of the movie, and that's not a good thing with a movie depending this much on a character's story. It's an interesting enough story on some levels, but like every great story need a villain; every great story needs some kind of a hero as well. Big corporation, price-fixing, thieves, liars, cheaters, beggars and adulters needs some other qualities making them worth considering at all for either role. In this movie we spend must of the time not bothering to identify with anyone, and the movie is worse off because of that.
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