Friday, August 28, 2009

The Informers - Review



Every scene in this film always end with either sex, drugs, or violence. And, that's not a good thing. THE INFORMERS is an unbelievable boring movie to behold where it wants to be shocking all the time but it comes off as trite.


Supposedly based on a series of short stories by Bret Easton Ellis, the film tells us absolutely nothing of grave interest or even a different take on 1980's white society in Los Angeles. The individual stories are placed together but none of them impact each other. Instead, the film comes across as a terrible rip-off of CRASH, especially when some of the characters are wondering about their morality and doing the right thing. But since every scene has no purpose and the characters don't really try to change, there is no reason for this film to be seen.


All of the actors aren't phoning it in, they simply slowly go through the motions and not emotions. Billy Bob Thornton sleepwalks his part as a studio head who wants his chaotic wife (Kim Basinger) to accept his infidelity as a part of their crumbling marriage. The young actors play bland and shallow way too much to lose any care for them. The only exceptions and the film's highlights are Chris Isaak and Mickey Rourke. Isaak does well for a pointless role as a rich father on vacation with his gay son and Rourke is enjoyable frightening as a vicious child kidnapper. This film was noteworthy for being Brad Renfro's last performance and, sadly, it isn't very good; Renfro plays his part way too crazy and ineffectual.


Upon looking up information after this travesty, it seems the majority of the blame absolutely goes to the director Gregor Jordan. He changed the tone of the film from a satire to its droll look and deleted a supernatural storyline involving vampires. This furthers my disdain for him, as his limp direction, basic cinematography, pretentious editing, and misogynistic viewpoint ruin the viewing experience. I would rather watch all of Andrew McCarthy's scenes in LESS THAN ZERO again than re-watch this lame fiasco.



FINAL REVIEW: 1 / 5

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