This rather slender tongue-in-cheek movie seems more European than American ( maybe French or even Czech) and I think the reason I enjoyed it so much was that I knew so little about it when I saw it.
My guess is this movie was only made because Matt Damon ( who is excellent) agreed to do it.
It takes a lot of cliches and plays with them, the way I think "Duplicity" wanted to do...
Warning: don't go to this movie expecting anything earth-shaking. And as I said, the less you know about it before you see it, the better...
Set in the Midwest in the 1990's, it takes corporate greed and price fixing for granted and shows how since the schemes of Madoff et al., we are not going to be surprised by anything.
Again, this movie is enjoyable but not that important.... you could wait for the DVD if you really wanted to.
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