Industrial espionage isn’t as inherently fascinating as the international intrigue kind more often found in films, but it still has more potential than this movie manages to realize. At its core this is the strange story of Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a mid-management chemist for ADM who went to the FBI to expose price fixing in the international lysine market. But rather than just tell the guy’s story, the filmmakers start packing on a bunch of give-me-an-award nonsense. For example, Damon is clearly trying to enhance his waning credibility as an actor by pulling a Raging Bull weight gain (and doing a mediocre job at it). And that’s characteristic of the production as a whole. The quirkiness is neither funny nor intriguing enough to make up for the fact that this is a feature length movie about price fixing in the international lysine market. Mildly amusing
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