Director: Steven Soderbergh
Note: Spoilers ahead
The Informant! is an ambitious failure, a film that attempts to throw us down a rabbit-hole where truth and deception battle for supremacy. The film doesn't work because of how twisted around the audience ends up becoming - we're not really that interested in who's lying and why. Ultimately, I suspect the absurdity of the film worked much better on paper - the idea that a person embezzling money would run to the government to expose other crimes sounds quite funny. The idea that the main character would have a lot of voiceover about banal things for the whole film sounds funny, but in execution it's merely amusing at times, unnecessary at others. The film may have been better served by leaving reality altogether, or even by revealing the end at the beginning (a move which I've criticized many times).
As a side note, it was fun to see lots of comedy pros pop up in this film, like Patton Oswalt and Paul F. Tompkins, as well as the guy who played Biff in Back to the Future.
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