Watched the infiltrator last night,
A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Bryan Cranston goes undercover to try and implicate those involved..
Good but not brilliant true story, which in reality took place over a 10 year timeframe, but the timescale wasn't very well observed in the film so it was hard to know when things were happening, it could have all been in a single month for all we knew. Like a lot of recent films or shied away from the classic Tony Scott-esque caption showing the location, march of time, stuff like that, so it got a little confusing when characters were introduced then bumped off. Ok I know find shouldn't be spoon fed but it would take a couple of viewings to register all those Latino names.
What it did well was the feeling that Bryan Cranston, his pretend fiancée Diane Kruger, and his colleague John Leguizamo were in constant danger, that Pablo Escobar's minion's were living in a different world and could torture and murder whoever they wanted, and the acting was top notch from all concerned (even Daniel Mays was in it, for about 30 seconds), but it could have been so much better considering the talent involved,but none the less it is a very watchable film and recommended.
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