The Informers

Tits, ass, cocaine and crappy music. Ah, those were the days! Great acting by the blonde's tits though.

I don't mind nudity. At all. However, there seems to exist a natural law stating that it has to be directly proportional to the amounts of poor acting and slobby direction. This, at least, is certainly true here, and let's just say: people get naked a lot. On a personal note, it made me sad to see Brad Renfro - good as always but looking spent and impish - in his last role.

Desperately needed more Mickey Rourke and Brad Renfro. That story was the only one that was somewhat interesting. All the other people blow and there is no one to root for. Felt like one of those really bad MTV produced movies from the 90s. Very poor directing.

"An ugly, blank slate of a film, one that feels like a rough outline for one of the better Ellis adaptations."

A softcore porn take on a Robert Altman movie. The film is very glossy with high production values and some biggish stars in peripheral roles. However the more unknown central actors are lacklustre and none of the characters are especially deep. Entertaining enough but it all tails away towards the end. The AIDS subtext is rammed home with all the subtlety of an engorged gay heroin addict's unprotected genitalia. Ok for what it is - a B-movie with aspirations of being the next Crash.

Amber Heard naked most of the movie what's not to like.

I liked it. I think the people who disliked it missed the point. Okay, so the dialogue wasn't always great, nor handled that well by every actor. But I thought it presented several compelling stories in a smart way which critiqued the lives of shallow people living decadent lives in the 1980s (as Ellis loves to do). It had several great actors, including the last performance from Brad Renfro, who died in 2009. It was hardly a great film, but I enjoyed it. Plus it had a cool 80s soundtrack.

The Informers doesn't work whatsoever. It's a terrible film about terrible people doing terrible (and boring) things for 90 minutes with no reason or clarity to their actions. You're watching a bunch of unhappy people do nothing to improve their situation, but also never being punished for their "immoral" actions. The film says nothing, isn't a well-made or put together film, and is absolutely not worth the hour and a half that you'll spend watching it.

The only good thing from this were Heard's tits.. Otherwise, Blah. Give me the book back.

dst7175's review sums up this movie, but I thought it was a mess of a movie and also all the guys in this movie were all asshole rich kids who needed to have there ass kicked... Amber Heard is really pretty.

Horrible, absolutely horrible. The leads fail in carrying the movie, and I didn't care one bit about them.

heard tert alert!

We have in Finland a movie called Insiders which was about the same thing. The life of uper, upper class kids was empty in 1980's. So was this movie. It did not move me at all.

i dug this one, a very, very, true to ellis ending. the whole construct of the plot is fairly in line with ellis even though it doesn't strictly adhere to the book. could have used a bit more embellishing from the original text to add more entertainment value, but all in all i appreciated it enough.

There's practically no story and some really patchy acting but it captures some of Ellis' nihilistic/brittle-cocaine-high atmosphere.

Feeling like the scraps of a much bigger work - adapted from a Bret Easton Ellis anthology collection (which I'll admit I haven't read) and with multiple stories woven within it - this never gets to a moment of profoundness in its tales of 1980s excess. Anything it does say, that people then snorted cocaine, had lots of sex and generally combusted, is completely obvious before you watch it.

One of those "everything-is-connected" movies where the connections are at best tenuous and at worst meaningless. Most of the plot strands never really wind up anywhere, or were never terribly interesting to begin with, which only compounds the problem. And unlike The Rules of Attraction, there's little pathos, and even less humor, to balance the movie's cynicism. What you end up with is a vacuous movie, the best for which can be said is "It's not really BAD, either." But, Amber Heard is naked.

Halfway through a movie exec pitches an idea about a rock band in space fighting off an evil giant tomato overlord. It sounds a lot more fun than the Informers turned out to be. The most frustrating thing is that some of the stories had flickers of emotion and interest, but there were just too many characters, each of which was drawn too thinly. The lack of a main central character or plot made it hard for me to remain interested. Some of the acting was shitty, too.

I liked it. It's an acquired taste definitely, but I appreciated it's honest portrayal of ignorance at it's most detrimental.

To co-opt and corrupt a quote from Bret Easton Ellis: "Why did I keep giggling at the dialogue in [THE INFORMERS] and why do I think its 'seriousness' makes it one of the silliest movies ever made?"

Best Ellis adaptation by far. Also the best LA-set ensemble film since Nowhere (the two would make a perfect triple feature with Southland Tales). Yes, about 100 times more engaging than Magnolia. Ha, i said it... All it needed was a soundtrack by Aesthete (*ahem*)

First off I want to start by saying R.I.P Brad Renfro, a solid performance from you. Also a strong turn out from Mickey Rourke who played a mysterious character afraid of a character who only seems to make a brief appearance. This movie at times was like an amateur porn flick playing to an odd mix of 80's pop music. There was a lot of references to sex, and a lot of sex shown, some that included at times up to 4 people. Sex in a film is alright only if it leads to some sort of conclusion

Anyone who thinks this film was ruined by cutting it from 3 hours to 1.5 is ridiculous. 1.5hrs of nudity and over-the-top heavy handedness are good in a True Blood sort of way, but double that and you'd have a very terrible evening on your hands.