Published: Sat, 26 Sep 2009
Description: (NECN: Jay Carr) - Matt Damon turns his Jason Bourne persona upside down in this movie about a corporate spy. Essentially, it's the same film as The Insider from a few years ago, except this is not a thriller -- it is ironic and, at times,...
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" The new movie the informant met Damon plays a corporate spies who couldn't be more different than its previous role as Jason -- and the scene from the informant. He takes he talks intelligence about its future."
" Once the starts he's going to be intense. They are going to know that somebody was on the inside. Working -- us and they're gonna do. Almost anything to find out who it is speed yes to think going to be okay the company. And -- you can you take down bad guys and obvious okay. -- This will -- well and that's the idea. Steven Soderbergh who directed this film really rise essentially the same -- with the inside refusing what Russell Crowe. Where a guy you know on the inside. Turns. Informant and so offers evidence and and a federal case against him in this case Archer Daniels Midland. He -- the agribusiness giant. Guilty of conspiring with -- international supposedly rivals to fix the price of all these goods that affect agriculture affect what you pay for. -- and Zetterberg decides to go the opposite route that try to make it almost looked a thriller. But the -- to make it a very ironic that at times from black comedy. So he has to make the informant hear a figure of fun the informant actually in real life. Helped because yes his so disconnected from here and now drive he's living in some -- his as the guy actually started. You know informing because he thought that if he. Removes the guys ahead of him on the corporate led that is -- right up until when -- be the top dog to get an idea how this guy is thinking you -- you know just isn't that. And then of course is complicated legalize. Now it does also make you appreciate it so Matt Damon is a virtual persons are actively realize he has he uses the fact that this -- Thinks he's Jason Bourne than James Bond -- actually he's a babbling -- don't want that clown. We basically got no sense of reality. The only thing that keeps them off. Going and keep them successful isn't as an informant who never listening to actually -- kids in the dark. Because as you masses are bigger dumber and more smug than he has. -- did doesn't have a lot of respect for corporate types and then the smallest of corporate minds. -- it's a great story and I have to add I have I have an interview after the -- real and they're really outlandish stuff here that this guy does. That's the stuff that they took absolutely. From the belts -- further detail for detail. It's good so I I actually got random -- so they kind of emphasized the comedy and emphasized the quickness on the -- it's absolutely wacky. But the Iraqi is stuff is stuff that actually happened. What is -- and now we -- his bosses but in the end naturally particularly good at them a lot of good. The FBI was as you know it kind of as -- you. Bunch of thousands he was clown -- but it's it's an interesting stories and had to captivating story partly because of the way it's told it on our."