Year: 2009
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Scott Z. Burns, based on the book by Kurt Eichenwald
Starring: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Melanie Lynskey
Music: Marvin Hamlisch
Length: 108 minutes
Synopsis: a quirky FBI mole takes down his own company
How I saw it: in the theater, yesterday
Subjective Rating: 8/10 (Great)
Objective Rating:
This movie has one of those plots that a brief synopsis just fails to convey; if you don't already know the story (it's based on true events), you'll just have to see the movie for yourself to know what it's about. It's funny in a bizarre, character-driven sort of way that not everyone might get, very much like a Coen brothers movie - in fact, if I didn't know better and hadn't seen the credits, I would have assumed it was a Coen brothers movie. I'm a little surprised to see how well Damon did with comedy. The music is brilliant; it's fun, unique, and absolutely inseparable from the movie (by which I mean, it would be a completely different movie without the same music).
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