Compounding the lack of intrigue is a storyline that is all introduction and setup, leaving the audience waiting for a third act that never comes.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

It was a series of randomness that don't really offer much information or contribute to the overall point.

| Original Score: C | Sep 12, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Heaven protect us from any more Bret Easton Ellis versions of Tales of the Empty Lives of Los Angeles.

| Aug 18, 2011

Brad Renfro in his last movie role, playing a wannabe film actor who sprays out filthy perspiration like a collie emerging from a sewer. It's possible this role killed Renfro.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 5, 2011

Rating less than zero on the sophistication scale, The Informers is thus a totally faithful adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel--and an accurate look at early '80s-era Los Angeles.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2009

Imagine American Psycho with less violence but more nudity, transplanted from New York to California and stripped of all self-awareness. That's The Informers.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 30, 2009

...a ninety-eight-minute snooze-fest.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Aug 23, 2009

bleak, boring and bloated.

| Original Score: D | Aug 10, 2009

It has a good cast and a terrific 1980s soundtrack (Devo, Simple Minds), but it also has the superficiality of a 온라인카지노추천 soap. The Informers is not so bad that you can't sit back and enjoy it, but nor is it good enough to go and see.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2009

In structure and location the film resembles Robert Altman's Short Cuts, though it's much inferior and far less interesting.

| Jul 24, 2009

While it's an occasionally unsettling piece - and comes with a big-name cast - the story never goes anywhere.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2009

We may not care about these cokeheads, but only rarely does Jordan fall into knee-jerk retribution.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009

A lurid, soapy, moralistic melodrama so mucky you'll need a shower.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Directed by Gregor Jordan, Ellis's aimlessly dissolute collection of stories just doesn't hang together as a coherent whole.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2009

There is a weird, almost comic absence of insight and perspective here. But it is a joke without humour and without a punchline.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 17, 2009

This self-penned adaptation of his 1994 short story collection - a period piece set in 1983 Los Angeles - has supposedly been cut to ribbons, and it shows.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Jordan gives all this an entirely appropriate sheen and the cast play well through glazed eyes. The film will fascinate those who love to see the tormented lives of those who seem luckier than the rest of us.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Failing to work on so many levels, The Informers operates as a time capsule of 1983 and a time when substance was negated in favour of style. Sadly, this movie is severely lacking in both of those departments.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2009

For diehard Ellis completists only.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2009