Let Me Inform You...

A Title Filled With Irony

The Informant is about Mark Whitacre ( Matt Damon ) a man who works at a giant agricultural company. Mark Whitacre becomes an undercover agent for the U.S government who is trying to take down this company for price fixing. The movie is quite un-informing to say the least. The movie is split into 2 parts, Boring Part 1 and Good Part 2.

The first half of the movie is extremely painful. The movie was advertised to seem as though it would be a hilarious comedy about a retarded, untrained undercover agent... Which obviously it wasn't. Having a plot line that doesn't really matter and boring main character does not help the anti - climatic first half. The first half of the movie makes you wonder if you should get up and leave the theatre, this would be a total mistake because the second part of the movie is amazing.


Imagine this movie sort of like an atomic bomb, putting it together would be as boring as talking to Helen Keller but once that thing (the atomic Bomb) is in the air it would be like talking to the Beatles.

The second part of the film could be closely paralleled to the Bush administration and how what they told America something different than what was actually happening in Iraq. The first half of the movie is simply meant to setup the second half. The informant character ( Matt Damon )might not be telling the complete truth throughout the first half of the movie. This creates a hilarious character change which causes the whole plot to take a U turn to the world of comedy. The second part of the movie is filled with laugh out loud scenes and funny lines. The constant narrating of Mark Whitarce thoughts throughout the movie is also funny. The second half of the movie is hilarious and worth waiting for.

Overall, The first part of the movie would be something you would expect to be shown at a Japanese enslavement camp as torture and the second part of the movie is the complete opposite making you laugh at every line.

If this movie where to be some sort of math equation it would be:

Unfunny + Uneventful + Anticlimactic = Fucking Hilarious + Ridiculous + Anti- Informant


Overall rating: S-A-B-r-e

Out of This World

David Bowie's son is not your average celebrity offspring. Duncan Jones has decided that instead of making crap music and living off his dad's fame he would do something worthwhile with his life. The result is a genius film, Moon. As the title suggests Moon is really out of this world (both literally and interpretively).

Moon tells the story of Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) who is finishing a three-year-tenure on the moon for Lunar Industries harvesting energy on the moon. During the last two weeks Sam starts to go a little crazy and uncovers a conspiracy that will rock the world...or the moon.

This movie is everything most Sci-Fi movies aren't. Despite a lack of action it is inquisitive, intelligent and an emotional thrill ride. It is a movie that begs to be rewatched and is brilliantly crafted. Unlike most Sci-Fi flicks this movie requires a fair amount of thinking. For about twenty minutes you will literally be sitting in your seat thinking WTF!?! having no idea what is going on (of course you will only be thinking this and won't say this because you will be in a theatre that shows independent movies and is filled with movie geeks that you are scared to disturb).

This coming from someone that isn't a huge fan of low-budget, independent movies, Moon is a must see. Unlike other independent movies that rely on drug abuse, weird sexual fetishes, and mental breakdowns to keep them interesting Moon is original and clever. Jones's film may well have opened up a whole new genre within the sci-fi heading. Moon may not have the thirty minute lightsaber fight or any Vulcan space chases but what it does have is an exceptional idea executed perfectly.

You may need a clone to do all the thinking you need for this movie!