This movie motivated the start of this new feature of the website.

I really just didn't get it. It bored me sooo much that I feel asleep on the floor in front of the fire, and was not disappointed. As a result of the little nap I didnt get to see a portion near the end, but by that stage they had lost my interest anyway. With such little free time it is always so disappointing to waste time watching something that does not live up to expectation.

I had to reread other reviews to actually understand the point of the movie. It was very slow moving and a little distracting in places. Matt Damon is a great actor, and does a great job in the film, but it was just so slow.

Last night on TV was the classic movie Fight Club. This movie also deals with the world of dellusion and is much more watchable. Just my opinion.....

Plot:

One night in early November 1992, Whitacre confesses to FBI agent Brian Shepard (Scott Bakula) that ADM executives — including Whitacre himself — had routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, an additive used in the commercial livestock industry. Whitacre secretly gathers hundreds of hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI. He assists in gathering evidence by clandestinely taping the company’s activity in business meetings at various locations around the globe such as Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City, and Hong Kong, eventually collecting enough evidence of collaboration and conspiracy to warrant a raid.

Whitacre’s good deed dovetails with his own major infractions and struggle with bipolar disorder. The film focuses on Whitacre's meltdown resulting from the pressures of wearing a wire and organizing surveillance for the FBI for three years, instigated by Whitacre's reaction, in increasingly manic overlays, to various trivial magazine articles he reads. In a stunning turn of events immediately following the covert portion of the case, headlines around the world report that Whitacre had defrauded $9 million from his own company at the same period of time he was secretly working for the FBI and taping his co-workers, while simultaneously hoping to be elected as CEO following the arrest and conviction of the remaining upper management members. After being confronted with evidence of his fraud, Whitacre's claims in his defense begin to spiral out of control, including an accusation of assault and battery against Shepard. Because of this major infraction and Whitacre’s bizarre behavior, he was sentenced to a prison term three times longer than the white-collar criminals he helped to catch. Agent Herndon (McHale) visits Whitacre while in prison in order to support him for a presidential pardon.