The 2019 film has been compared to The Departed and The Town.
Netflix has just added The Informer, a tense and twisty action crime thriller movie from 2019.
Joel Kinnaman plays Pete Koslow, an ex-con released early from prison on the condition that he work as an undercover informant for the FBI to help dismantle the Polish mafia’s drug trade in New York.
“But when the FBI’s operation goes wrong, resulting in the death of an undercover NYPD cop, Pete is coerced into returning to Bale Hill, the prison he previously served time in for manslaughter, to take down the cartel from the inside,” the plot synopsis reads.
Featuring a stacked supporting cast, including Ana de Armas, Clive Owen, Common and Rosamund Pike, The Informer was released in 2019 to solid reviews – earning comparisons to the likes of The Departed and The Town.
That said, the film did not get a major cinema release and as such is ripe for discovery for crime thriller fans.
You can read a sample of some of the positive reviews for The Informer right here:
Chicago Sun-Times: “Joel Kinnaman is taking names in true action movie-star fashion.”
Daily Telegraph (UK): “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.”
Film Inquiry: “The Informer feels like a throwback in every positive sense of the word. It is a rough and intense thriller that has a great deal of tension that propels it to stand out with its B-Movie qualities.”
The Guardian: “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.”
JoBlo’s Movie Network: “A solid, under-the-radar thriller that’s well worth checking out.”
Times (UK): “It’s nothing we’ve not seen before, but it’s pulled off with slick effectiveness and has enough bumps in the road to demand your attention to the end.”
The Informer is streaming now on Netflix in the UK and Ireland.
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