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THE INFORMER ***
Dir: Andrea Di Stefano (15, 113 mins)
Undercover cop prison drama with a lot of familiar story beats but competently managed. An intense and moody Joel Kinnaman plays Pete Koslow (ex-special forces, naturally), who finds himself behind bars after a fight to protect his wife Ana De Armas. He’s given a chance to get early release by becoming an informant for the FBI, embodied by considerate Rosamund Pike and hard-nosed Clive Owen. They want him to take down crime boss The General, to whom Kinnaman has got close, but when an operation goes pear-shaped and another undercover NYPD cop is killed he is left in prison fending off the FBI, the NYPD (embodied by rapper Common), and the organized crime syndicate. Violence ensues as Kinnaman tries to stay a step ahead of every side in a film that feels a little straight-to-bargain bin. Rosamund Pike is given little to do, Kinnaman takes his shirt off a lot and looks cross, and the story plods along with few surprises. Opens Mar 22