6/10
Good acting, interesting story, It is worth watching and I have seen worse but it's no Donnie Brasco.
11 October 2016
"What if we chased the money to get to the bad guys?" Robert Mazur (Cranston) and Emir Abreu (Leguizamo) are U.S. Customs officials trying to stop the drug trafficking in the US. When they don't seem to be making any progress Robert decides the only real way to get to the top is to go undercover and find who is actually financing the cocaine business. What he finds is that the deeper he goes and the more he uncovers the further into the world he gets, and the more he becomes connected to the people but not in the way he was expecting. This is, first off a good movie. That being said, one of the benefits to my job is that I get to watch a ton of movies. One of the downside to doing reviews, is that because there are only really a handful of stories that keep getting told over and over. This small fact means that, most of the time unfairly, comparisons between other movies are inevitable. While this was a good movie I had a hard time not thinking of Donnie Brasco or even the Departed. Other movies where agents went undercover in a dangerous world. When compared to those this movie is no where close. Taken on its own the movie is good but, for me at least, it wasn't one of the better movies in this genre. Overall, acting is good, story is interesting, pacing was a little off and just felt a little flat in some parts. That said, it is worth watching and I have seen worse. It's no Donnie Brasco. I give this a B-.
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