I liked this movie for what it was , not for what it wasn't . I thought Timothy Daltons acting was tight . He looked well within his element as the badass cop with revenge on his mind or a vendetta he knows is right . To me Dalton seemed like Clint Eastwoods Harry Callahan but with a certain fury and not so many moments of levity and friendship . I liked that Dalton seemed to impart that certain fury without it letting it dominate the characters life . I remember the scene where Daltons character explains the reason for his fury and it seemed like both he and the character felt comfortable with whatever drove Dalton to be where he was at and the character he portrayed was imparting that calm to the audience . The Harry Callahan character was always set good guy / bad guy style . Clint has always had a wry smile in his shoot em ups , Truer smiles where he looks truly happy in so many other great movies . Dalton has been funny in Hot Fuzz but it seemed to me he was decidedly comfortable and content as a baddass cop in The Informant . Maybe I witnessed actors nirvana or I just saw the actor the way he felt when he auditioned for James Bond .
Review of The Informant
