The Informant!

Finally, after weeks of watching nothing but crappy movies we have a diamond in the rough. It could just be my bias towards Matt Damon movies but he really delivers in everything he puts on the big screen. Or maybe it's because it was helmed by Steven Soderbergh, only one of the best directors in life (i.e. Che, Traffic, Erin Brockovich).

The Informant! is about a very eccentric executive, Mark Whitacre, of a large Illinois based Agri-business, ADM, who witnesses the corruption of the global price fixing of Lysine, a food additive. He volunteers this information to the FBI and, there you have it, he is now a spy. He spends the next 4 years amassing hundreds of tapes that prove the corruption that is going on only to find that he is screwing things up in every way possible. After investing all this time spying for the feds he is now the focus of the investigation and is willing to go to any lengths to escape a jail sentence. He starts the movie on a foundation of lies only to have them escalate at every turn in the movie and at the end it's almost impossible to decifer what is true and what is a lie.

Matt Damon nailed his role as Mark Whitacre and made his impersonation extremely convincing, dim witted, and remarkably funny. I enjoyed every second of this movie and strongly encourage you all to see it as soon as possible. The writing was fantastic, the acting even better, and the overall story, while a stretch from the truth, was refreshing. I give The Informant! a very strong A.