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| Original Score: C | Sep 12, 2017

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

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

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

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

Bret Easton Ellis pens a mean tale, in all adjectival senses. His prose is artfully maleficent; he is a laid-back Severus Snape of the sex-and-drugs generation. You need a smarter directing hand, though, than Gregor Jordan's.

| Jul 17, 2009

Director Gregor Jordan seems to have gone into reverse since his 2001 Buffalo Soldiers, aiming for the LA rondeau of Altman's Short Cuts but missing all the vital ingredients - wit, humanity, charm, nuance and meaning.

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

The Informers isn't dull but the characters are hollow and the dialogue stilted. In the hands of the film's less experienced actors, it verges on the embarrassing.

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

It's by far the most slack, ho-hum movie ever made from Ellis' material.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 24, 2009

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

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 24, 2009

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 24, 2009

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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 24, 2009

Repulsive 80s flashback.

| Apr 24, 2009

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 | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 24, 2009

The Informers is such a wretched piece of garbage that there's a certain amount of guilt attached to even writing about it.

| Original Score: F | Apr 24, 2009

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 24, 2009