The Informers is a movie so seamy it makes you want to take a bath afterward. Rarely has so much sin seemed so boring.

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The Informers (2009)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:14
Rotten:85
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: As miserable and insipid as its protagonists, The Informers fails to provide anything to think about after the sheen of fake blond is gone.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong sexual content, nudity, drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images.
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Apr 24, 2009 Limited
Synopsis:
In such works as Less Than Zero and American Psycho Brett Easton Ellis brilliantly dissects contemporary American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. Now, adapting his own...
In such works as Less Than Zero and American Psycho Brett Easton Ellis brilliantly dissects contemporary American society, a culture in which too much is never enough. Now, adapting his own acclaimed novel for the screen, he returns to the Los Angeles of the early 1980's with a multi-strand narrative that deftly balances a vast array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con).
Connecting all his intertwining strands are the quintessential Ellis protagonists -- a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs -- and one another -- with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano. Filmed with uncommon glamour and grit by acclaimed Australian director Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly, Buffalo Soldiers), The Informers is an alternately blistering and chilling portrait of hedonism run amuck. --© Senator
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster, Amber Heard, Brad Renfro, Chris Isaak, Austin Nichols, Lou Taylor Pucci, Mel Raido, Rhys Ifans, Jessica Stroup
Director: Gregor Jordan
Director: Gregor Jordan
Screenwriter: Nicholas Jarecki
Studio: Senator Entertainment
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Reviews for The Informers
Ellis doesn't create a single authentic moment or sympathetic character in this lurid pastiche of disconnected vignettes.
This one's a certifiable soul-sucker, dining out on its characters' venalities while wagging a finger at the horror, the horror.
Gregor Jordan's pointless adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis book is successful only in the sense that it accurately mimics the emptiness of its subject.
It’s almost a relief when one of the characters comes down with a deadly disease.
The film is as flat as the Hollywood sign, with beautiful young people, all blonde, mostly naked, trying desperately to get up the energy to order something else from room service.
A grim, open-ended study in smooth surfaces, skin and 25-year-old pop-culture references.
There seems to be no point to this derivative Bret Easton Ellis retro-wallow. It's all sex, drugs, rock 'n roll and boredom - with the emphasis on boredom.
The performances run the gamut from twitchy to catatonic, and the stoned stiffness of the actors seems to have less to do with the affectlessness of the characters than with their own confusion.
The Informers is such a wretched piece of garbage that there's a certain amount of guilt attached to even writing about it.
Though name actors and the involvement of a cult author may eventually get The Informers attention, there’s nobody who loves the ’80s enough to knowingly pay good money to suffer through all 98 minutes of this.
Has an air of detachment and sadness, enhanced by the movie's being set a full quarter century ago. Like new cars in an old movie, these people may glow with youth, but we watch them in full awareness of the beaters and wrecks they'll become.
Is there an easier target for satire than Hollywood? Or a duller one?
Just because your characters are vacuous, less-than-zero types, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the tone and structure of your movie has to adopt the same conditions.
Remember the '80s? After sitting through The Informers you may wanna burn your Rubik's Cube and "Where's the Beef" T-shirt.
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