Synopsis
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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Cast
- Joel KinnamanPete Koslow
- Rosamund PikeWilcox
- CommonGrens
- Ana de ArmasSofia
- Clive OwenMontgomery
- Sam SpruellSlewitt
- Ruth BradleyCat
- Eugene LipinskiKlimek the General
- Martin McCannRiley
- Mateusz KościukiewiczStazek
Recommendations
- 80
The Telegraph
The Informer is one of the year’s more pleasant genre surprises: a clenched fist of a crime thriller in the mode of The Departed or The Town, in which every element is just a notch smarter than you’d expect. Generic though the film may look, it holds together absorbingly, thanks to a sturdy script which ups stakes and adds characters with cunning and intelligence. - 70
Variety
For all The Informer lacks in surface style — shot and scored as it is in functional, straight-to-VOD fashion — it remains a surprisingly well-oiled genre machine. - 70
The New York Times
The movie has a surfeit of the sudden reversals and interlocking loyalties that can make for an absorbing time killer. - 63
Slant Magazine
Outside of the Easy Money series, Kinnaman has rarely been allowed to utilize his tightly wound intensity this explicitly. - 60
The Guardian
The Informer is spread over a big canvas, but by the time of its big finale it is leaking energy. It might have made better sense as an episodic drama on television but it is brash and watchable, its world reeking with cynicism and fear. - 60
Time Out
The Informer is a film that favours brawn over brains, punching its way through any plot predicaments. A smart hairpin or two would have made it a juicier watch. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
While the script bounces from the cops to the feds to the cons and back, it fails to take us to that Donnie Brasco sweet spot in which the psychological pressures of being In Too Deep threaten to crack our hero, whether somebody gets a shiv into him or not. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The entire movie doesn’t merely tip-toe into the ridiculous, it dives head-first into the shallow end of stupid, cracking its head, and yours, along the way.
