The
Infiltrator 8/10
The
other day Cam and I headed to the Sundance Theater and saw The
Infiltrator. I of course told her not to tell me what it was about
but as soon as I saw the poster I vaguely remembered the trailer for
it. This is way better than the trailer by the way. The trailer makes
it look like this fast paced action movie when it is anything but. I
would say suspense because my ass was clawing at my seat throughout
the whole thing just waiting for someone to find something out or for
someone to be betrayed while being betrayed. It was too much for my
poor heart! This is one of those movies like Warrior where I get mad
that more people aren't talking about it or plan on seeing it.
Bryan
Cranston is great in this as an agent Robert Mazur that wants to
bring down Pablo Escobar by following the money. Not using the method
of waiting till the drugs were already here and grabbing them and the
dealers but hitting drug kingpins where it hurt: their wallets. He
uses alias such as Bob Musella and gets in deep with the bad guys.
His wife played by Juliet Aubrey as Evelyn Mazur wants him to just
retire, which he can, but he wants to...I'm not quite sure. They
don't make him come across as some super patriot that wants to stop
drugs from getting into the country and his children. He just wants
to work it seems.
On his
biggest case of his career, and at the time in the country, we find him
ass deep in the thick if things. By slipping up and saying he is
engaged to stop a lap dance he ends up assigned a wife named Kathy
Ertz played by Diane Kruger. She is great at playing his wife and
they end up getting in good with Roberto Alcaino played by Benjamin
Bratt who is also great in this. There is also John Leguizamo as Emir
Abreu who is amazing in this. He is good at his job and even when
someone gets their brain blown out and he is splattered with blood
doesn't even drop his cigarette.
The
acting in this was amazing. I was clawing at my seat throughout most
of this movie just waiting for a cover to be blown or for danger to
reach Mazur's home. I loved the outfits in this and how the clothes
didn't look like costumes as this takes place in the early 80's. The
music was cool too and had me wondering when I could get the
soundtrack (Cam who suggested this movie and went with me told me I
can get it on the library's website). This is one of my favorite
movies I've seen this year and out of the five of the best I have
seen in 2016 three of them have not been blockbusters and not seen by
many people. If you can check this out you really should. The only reason I did not give this a 9 is because the ending was a little too cinema feeling for me.
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