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Movie Overview
Cast
• Billy Bob Thornton
• Kim Basinger
• Mickey Rourke
Director
• Gregor Jordan
MPAA Rating
R - for strong sexual content, nudity, drug use, pervasive language and some disturbing images.
The Informers (2009)

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OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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1.5/4
"The Informers lacks bite and is curiously low on bark. It's a mishmash of sullen stories that resemble what Robert Altman might've put out on an off day."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  A. J. Hakari

3/6
"This is nothing more than Short Cuts with shortcuts"  PopMatters  Bill Gibron

C-
"The Informers is a beautiful picture of misery, but the surface quality is never penetrated to satisfaction. In the end, it's a mess of smeary mascara, mix tapes, and hair mousse in search of connective tissue."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

C-
"Sublimely awful, director Gregor Jordan's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' dystopic vision of '80s era Los Angeles bounces between a slew of unlikable reckless characters."  ColeSmithey.com  Cole Smithey

3.5/4
"Aesthetically pretty, subjectively ugly, and emotionally incisive, the picture celebrates the passing of a not-so-innocent era and mourns the victims left in its wake."  DustinPutman.com  Dustin Putman

D
"Brazenly befouling cinemas with its sub-soap-opera acting, melodramatic dialogue, and thoroughly unlikable characters."  Film.com  Eric D. Snider

C-
"In spite of the title, The Informers doesn't get below the surface of the era of Reaganesque excess to tell us anything new. But it's way cool to look at."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

"Each story adds up to nothing individually...and The Informers is exactly the sum of its parts."  Cinepinion  Henry Stewart

1.5/4
"The Informers is the kind of movie that, upon leaving the theater, provokes the urge to take a shower."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

"Parental Content Review"  Screen It!  Jim Judy

3/10
"...a ninety-eight-minute snooze-fest."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

"Imagine "Crash" with a social disease and you pretty much have "The Informers" in a nutshell."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

2.5/5
"Watching people live such vacuous, clone-like lives of privilege and decadence, it's impossible to feel anything for them."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

5/10
"Life is a bitch and then you go to L.A."  Monsters and Critics  Ron Wilkinson

1.5/5
"An ugly, blank slate of a film, one that feels like a rough outline for one of the better Ellis adaptations."  Cinematical  Scott Weinberg

1.5/5
"There's no real structure to Jordan's film, so stories haphazardly begin and disappear without ending"  Filmcritic.com  Sean O'Connell
OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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