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Title: Can this be a Steven Soderbergh film?
Review: THE INFORMANT! has an exclamation point after the title for a good reason - it suggests that even the writers and actors as well as the usually superb Steven Soderbergh had a tough time figuring out how to make this story into an entertaining while quite implausible movie. Though based on a true story the movie is basically a running monologue by the hyperkinetic Matt Damon in a role that suits him not at all. At moments it seems like an outrageous comedy, then at others it appears as yet another appalling exposé of how big business and big politics intertwine to the detriment of our environment and moral deterioration. No one seems to know how to treat this piece, and maybe that is just as well. Keep the exclamation point after the title - that sort of tells it all. Side step this film if you are a fan of Soderbergh or Matt Damon. Grady Harp, February 10
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