"The Informant!" - based on a true, exaggerated story

The Informant! is a film adaptation of the 2000 non-fiction book of the same name by Kurt Eichenwald, based on the lysine price-fixing conspiracy of the 1990s. This film mainly follows Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), junior executive of agriculture company Archer Daniels Midland. He is enlisted by FBI Agent Brian Shepard (Scott Bakula) to go through extensive and hilarious methods to find the culprit.

Anything further might ruin some of the best parts of the film. I haven't read the book, but I almost didn't want to get up because I couldn't stop laughing. The film is basically one joke after another. There's something else enjoyable about this film, but I won't spoil it.

The film recieved an R rating, though I'm not sure it really deserved one. There are a few f-words, a reference to a woman's breasts, some drinking, little if any violence... I guess it may be the racial slurs, but most of them just flew over my head.

Well, if you like the book, or know about the events, see it. If you simply want to see a film with one joke after another, this is also for you. In fact, the only kind of person I don't recommend this film to would be people who don't like comedies, dramatizations of true events, or are easily offended and have a better knowledge of racial slurs than me.