Matt Damon plays a promising agricultural businessman, who decides to go behind his bosses backs, and inform the FBI about illegal activities at his workplace.
Mark Whitacre (Damon) is a successful and intelligent microbiologist for a company that produces corn-related products in the United States. He has a wife and two adopted children, as well as a lovely home and promising future. Pretty standard American Dream stuff. However, Mark one day tells his bosses that he has been informed about an informant within the company who is sabotaging their work. If the company pays a massive sum of money, they can find out who he is, and how to make their new product work. The bosses get the FBI involved, who then start questioning Mark about this supposed informant!
Mark then decides to cooperate with the FBI and leads them to a bigger story, price fixing in the global markets. As Mark gets deeper and deeper into his tale of financial corruption on a massive scale, it becomes harder and harder to decipher the truth in his story.
A funny film in places, Damon’s internal monologue of mostly useless facts and anecdotes provides some brilliant little moments. His performance as Mark is very engaging, and there is a depth to Damon’s character which transfers to this onscreen enigma.
The story is complicated, winding through many different versions of events, with plenty of pointless facts and figures, and the ending seemed unsatisfying.
If you like sparse, black comedies this will probably enthuse, but don’t be fooled by the exclamation mark. This film is nothing to shout about.
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