Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Mike Bear In my opinion this movie is a decent piece for cinematography history!For 2008, $18,000,000 is a different amount money rather nowadays. How I understand most of them were paid for actors with big name and in my opinion they done a good job.1. A good actors play. You need just look at the list, watch the trailer and a 10-15 minutes of the movie.2. This movie touches different relationships and situations in our world. For example, situation between father and son, how rich kids live and communicate with each other, situations with divorce and marriage, love and hate, kidnapping situation with a doorman, etc......3. Movie basically about life in "One week in L.A. in 1983.....". Where we can see real life situations, kind of separate novels but have some connections. Verdict: For sure it is not something incredible, with some clichés and have some questionable nuances, but it's worth to watch some evening after hangover, crazy party or sleepless night. Maybe can answer for some questions or give you a food to think.

Cedric_Catsuits They say if you remember the 60s then you weren't there. For me it was the 80s, probably the most glamorous and decadent decade known to mankind. OK so this film largely revolves around the glamour and less around the ordinary folk, but the styles and the music just brought back a lot of good memories.This is by no means a demanding film, nor does it serve any particular purpose other than to show off some classy production values and acting. The characters are not people you can exactly warm to either. It may be glamorous but it's not pretentious or preaching some moral message. It's just easy on the eyes and ears and brain, comfort food for anybody who harks back to a better time.I like films like this, that don't go anywhere in particular. The ending is also well done with a short, simple but meaningful, if trite, few lines. Full marks for not spoiling the movie with a ridiculous plot or sentimentality.

Rodrigo Amaro It's kind of strange to explain why I liked this film. Maybe it was the ensemble casting united; or maybe it's because I tend to enjoy hyper-linked stories where unconnected situations and characters will connect with each other at the ending; I really don't know. Or more important, perhaps I didn't find reasons enough to dislike it even though there were plenty of them.Bret Easton Ellis adapts his own novel into the screen and even though I haven't read the book I believe this is somewhat well adapted, very close to his style of writing and characters presentations and inconclusive endings to some of them. The story presented has several characters (played by Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci, Winona Ryder, Brad Renfro, Mickey Rourke, Chris Isaak, Rhys Ifans among others) messing up with their lives while trying to figure out a meaning to it. It all takes place in the 1980's (as usual with Ellis works) and it does involve sex, drugs and rock n'roll. The problem with "The Informers" is that it is a movie that doesn't have a heart or it just doesn't beat enough, by that I mean that you leave the experience without getting much except the reunion of a good cast giving average performances. We're thrown with these characters, know few things about them, then the story tries to conclude something but not enough to let us take our own conclusions of why they do what they do. For instance, the story involving the kid and his father on vacation trying to get to know each other where the father tries to communicate with his son who knows that this is impossible, since they have nothing in common. It only gives innuendos about the boy's sexuality, some sort of confusion and in the end we kept wondering what was that all about. There's something there that could be explored more, the script never answered what needed to be answered so the bond with its audience is a little inexistent.The weakest aspect of all is that it doesn't look the 80's, it's too much 2000's, it's too updated. To have an good example of recreating an decade years later and also a film based on Ellis novel, "American Psycho" was infinitely better not only the story but also bringing the 1980's back with their colors, the loud music (and of great quality), the pop culture references. In "The Informers" it's only a music here and there or a TV report about the AIDS that inform us that we are in another decade. This melancholic tale about ill fated characters living as a lost generation has its good moments. It's a good film, it never leaves you uninterested or bored or angry. It's main difficulty is a script that doesn't dig a little deeper and rarely gives some powerful insights about how troubled was the 1980's even with everything going in your favor like the characters presented here, all rich and beautiful but miserably sad. 6/10

smith212121 Not surprisingly, as it is based on stories by the same author, "The Informers" has much in common with "American Psycho". Both are scathing indictments of the decadence of today's Western society, and both veil this moral stance behind a seemingly neutral, almost indifferent depiction of the life of beautiful people who embrace the paradigms of modern society - hedonism, individualism without responsibility, egoism - to the fullest.But why is "American Psycho" hailed as a masterpiece by many - with a 7.4 rating at IMDb.com - while "The Informers" is reviled by almost everyone, despite many factors which should have made it a greater success: better acting, more prominent actors, sexier, ...?I can only guess, but I think the main reason is that "The informers" contains more uncomfortable truths that people don't want to face about our society. The "villain" in "American Psycho" was a serial murderer. You could look at him as a gruesome attraction that had nothing to do with your life or with that of the people you know. The "villains" in "The Informers" are no real villains, but normal, even likable people who don't know anymore what is right and what is wrong, who have lost their way in the same manner as millions of people have in the real world. The film holds up a mirror in which we see ourselves and the world we live in, which is unbearable. And it offers no ready-made answers, only questions.