Title: Take 2: Globe review of 'The Informant'

" from Boston Globe and intake to worry going to be talking about the informant and you Matt Damon movie. From director Steven Soderbergh. Which matters because it feels like almost and adjunct to the ocean's eleven movies it's got it seems sort of hyper happy ironic field. Although this one is based on an actual true story about me corporate whistle blower who in the 1990s. Let the -- to investigate price fixing. And Archer Daniels Midland giant agribusiness. Corporation. Unfortunately the whistle blower had some issues himself. And the movie treats this as this kind of wacky. Ironic. Light farce where Matt Damon playing this. Mid level middle American executive with a really lasting mustache and really bad air who thinks he's some kind of super spy -- the best scenes in the informant. Art when Damon is like talking into his hidden microphone and introducing the people who -- my full name and occupation or you know. Trying to adjust the hidden camera and a meeting room. Damon is. I loved that game and he's actually when my favorite current working actors and them. He's got a really good knack for character comedy SEC and the ocean's eleven movies that movies where he's not a star but he sort of plays the sort of comic loser of the book of the bunch many of these sort of doing -- variant on that. And he's very very very funny. And Scott back to the place the FBI agent a lot of on the informant is watching the facial reactions of the people around domestic characters they've realized that he's eleven now the primrose path. And then he's completely nuts. A lot of the movie is. -- any characters' inner monologue. Which is completely divorced from anything going on -- he wonders about polar bears and that Japanese. Tourists. Trotsky said whatever wonders who's -- And that's the comedy of the movies that there's this huge disconnect between this high level corporate vice president also whistle -- and any semblance of reality. The movie is more pleased -- this joke then I think the audience is and after awhile the fun starts to leak out the music by the way if I'm -- Hamlisch who seems like he's reached channeling about. I different. Games showed scenes from the sixties that's very -- the fonts are very sort of Disco Aaron it's all sorts of -- from previous areas mixed together. And the movie works really hard to be fun. And what's -- to be fun after a while it's not quite a lot of fun. But it's we're seeing from Matt Damon that's the informant I'm Tucker and it's."