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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 [More]

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

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
04/24/09
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Ellis doesn't create a single authentic moment or sympathetic character in this lurid pastiche of disconnected vignettes.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
04/24/09
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

This one's a certifiable soul-sucker, dining out on its characters' venalities while wagging a finger at the horror, the horror.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
04/24/09
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
04/24/09
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

It’s almost a relief when one of the characters comes down with a deadly disease.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
04/24/09
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

Repulsive 80s flashback.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
04/24/09
J. R. Jones
J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader

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.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
04/24/09
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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A grim, open-ended study in smooth surfaces, skin and 25-year-old pop-culture references.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
04/24/09
Mike Russell
Mike Russell
Oregonian

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.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
04/24/09
Pete Hammond
Pete Hammond
Hollywood.com

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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
04/24/09
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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The Informers is such a wretched piece of garbage that there's a certain amount of guilt attached to even writing about it.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
04/24/09
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

Ellis's big notions are less insightful than they pretend to be.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
04/24/09
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post

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.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
04/24/09
Ray Greene
Ray Greene
Boxoffice Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
04/24/09
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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The movie has more dead scenes than a Monday night in Magnitogorsk.

Full Review Source: MTV | comment Comment
04/24/09
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
MTV

An awful film about an awful time.

Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun | comment 1 Comment
04/24/09
Chris Kaltenbach
Chris Kaltenbach
Baltimore Sun

Is there an easier target for satire than Hollywood? Or a duller one?

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
04/24/09
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

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.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
04/24/09
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

An aimless mess. But at least the mess is sexy and exciting.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
04/24/09
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

Remember the '80s? After sitting through The Informers you may wanna burn your Rubik's Cube and "Where's the Beef" T-shirt.

Full Review Source: What Would Toto Watch? | comment Comment
04/24/09
Christian Toto
Christian Toto
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