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This is a distinct movie and when I say distinct, I mean it won't appeal to most but it definitely appealed to me. I found the plot line believable, found the story's pace good...I liked Matt Damon's portrayal...

Matt Damon does his usual good acting job in this story of a sociopathic biochemist/businessman.

The film style is rather quirky with an incongruous soundtrack and stylistic settings in the Midwestern United States. I was kept interested throughout the film by new revelations regarding Whitaker's embezzlements.

The story progresses from Whitaker seeming to be a blameless whistle-blower to being the creative force in his own little 10 million dollar embezzlement scheme, while the company he worked for ripped consumers off for hundreds of millions in price fixing.

If you are a matt Damon fan I think you will enjoy this film.

Contrary to the sneak peeks of this movie; it is absolutely NOT a comedy.

It is not a bad movie, as I would probably give it 2 stars if it weren't so deceptive in classifying itself. The biggest letdown is that they advertise it to be a hilarious comedy, when it is just a story about a guy that has mental problems.

I went into this expecing quirky from director Steven Soderbergh. It is not supposed to be a typical white collar crime drama. I loved the voice over with the main character just giving random thoughts, even in the most ridiculous context of what was happening to him at the time. It is not action packed, drama filled but it is a pleasant black comedy with Matt Damon given a realy understated performance. Not laugh out loud funny but certainly brings you into the period of the early 1990's and tells the true story of a guy who was living in another world in his head.

I loved the Marvin Hamlisch throw back music which greatly enhanced the story. Matt Damon is a biochemical engineer for Archer Daniels Midland. He is in charge of lysine production, which is having problems. He claims the problem is a virus that a Japanese mole has introduced to the product. The FBI is called in. Matt informs the FBI of another evil that is on going...international lysine price fixing! Matt comes across as a squeaky clean guy who only wants to help make things right. He believes by informing on his company the board of directors will reward him for doing right by making him CEO. If you don't see the humor in that, you most likely won't enjoy the film.

The FBI has Matt go undercover in what is the nerdiest undercover man to wear a wire. I had to laugh at Matt's character as he played 0014 spy. When things start to hit the fan, it gets weird and twisted.

This reminded me of an old 60's style comedy with Damon being super intelligent and naive. I would have enjoyed the film even if it wasn't based on a true story. Great characters.

F-bomb, no sex or nudity.

I wanted to like this movie. I usually like Matt Damon movies and I know one of the agents this movie is about. I was really looking forward to seeing this. The problem is the movie just can't decide whether it is a serious piece covering the very interesting true story of an informant with huge problems of his own or whether it is a comedy or a spoof. It does a poor job of being funny and a poor job of being serious. Another reviewer called the movie "quirky." That is a good description, but not in the sense that some movies are good because they are quirky. This is quirky in the sense that the director just doesn't seem to have a clear vision of what this movie is intended to be.

I thought it was funny in the way that you smile a little when something is funny but i did not laugh at all. THis movie was more of a suspense or acftion movie than a comedy. It was ok but kinda weird and the ending could have been better. I would give it 3 or less stars but i gave it 4 stars because i was entertained!

If you are at all interested in the story behind the movie listen to the production of it by "This American Life" much more engrossing. I listened to that on the radio first and was excited to see that they had made it into a movie... not worth the price of admission.

This is not the movie that I thought I was going to see.

It's one of those confused, vague wastes of time

great movie Matt Damon is really good in it. Too bad it is a true story