The Informer 2019

Choose your enemies wisely

6.544 / 10   790 vote(s)
R
Drama Crime Thriller

In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones.

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Release Date 2019-08-30
Runtime 1h 49m
Directors Andrea Di Stefano, David Doran, Jonathan Midlane, Ryan Alan Dearth, Arizona Eastwood, Daniel Jerome Gill, Shelley Lankovits, Daniel Katz, Mark Nutkins, Anissa Bonnefont
Producers Babak Eftekhari, Wayne Marc Godfrey, James Harris, Börge Hellström, Basil Iwanyk, Anders Roslund, Vishal Rungta, Niclas Salomonsson, Lee Broda, Shelley Browning, Alastair Burlingham, Jonathan Fuhrman, Nicholas Goldfarb, Jimmy Holcomb, Marshall Leviten, Gabriel Napora, Jeff Rice, Shaun S. Sanghani, Andrea Scarso, Yas Taalat, Erica Lee, Andy Burrow, Robert Jones, Alex Walton, Ollie Madden, Anders Erdén, Simon Williams, Rowan Joffe, Arnaud Lannic, Michael Benaroya, Youssef Boujemaoui, Nik Bower, Charlie Dombek, Yipeng Ben Lu, Des Lyons, Mary Lyons, Karim Mathlouthi, Stewart Peter, Umida Umarbekova, Mark Lane
Writers Matt Cook, Börge Hellström, Anders Roslund, Rowan Joffe, Andrea Di Stefano

At times, this is quite an engrossing crime drama about a convict who goes back into prison to help the FBI tackle a dodgy European drug lord and in so doing confronts his fair share of betrayal and authority corruption too. Joel Kinnaman holds this violent thriller together quite well but the rest of the cast really struggle to make much impact and it does dip in the middle somewhat. Somebody, somewhere, has clearly decided that Ana de Armas is one to watch - thus far in her career, however, the reasons why are escaping me and Rosamund Pike - even in "Gone Girl" - always seems a bit too detached to me; whatever her role.

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