The Informant!

Stephen Soderbergh is back with "The Informant!", starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, a higher-up executive/biochemist at ADM, who becomes an informant for the FBI as they build a case of price-fixing against ADM (Archer Daniels Midland).

The film is filled with Whitacre's inner thoughts throughout his adventures as an informant, most are hilarious, and some are head-scratching.  The pace is breezy enough, though I have to admit to losing interest in the film by the last act as the story takes many twists and turns.

Matt Damon turns in a terrific performance, totally inhabiting the character of Whitacre, and buoyed by a good, solid supporting case, including Scott Bakula, Joel McHale.  Soderbergh displays his usual level of director acumen, but the script (or real-life events) doesn't quite spin a truly engaging tale.

I'm not sure if I recall the look and feel of the 1990's as it was depicted in the film, seemed too retro to me, down to the font used in the lettering at certain spots in the film to denote locations and time/date.  Plus, lots of blown out lighting in many scenes gave off an earlier time frame to me (more like the 1970s/1980s).  But since Soderbergh also lit the scenes, the film is how he wanted it to look.

I give it 2.75 stars, or a grade of B-.