Based on a true story, US Customs agent Robert Mazur goes
undercover as Bob Musella to infiltrate drug lord Pablo Escobar`s blood-soaked
drug trafficking scene that has been plaguing the nation in the 1980s. During
the mission, he teams up with streetwise fellow agent Emir Abreu and rookie
agent Kathy Ertz, who poses as his fiancée. Along the way, he also befriends
Escobar`s top lieutenant Roberto Alcaino.
Navigating a vicious criminal network in which the slightest
slip-up could cost him his life, Mazur risks it all building a case that leads
to indictments of 85 drug lords and the corrupt bankers who cleaned their dirty
money, along with the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International, one of the largest money-laundering banks in the world.
A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme
involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
The movie follows some of that played-out drug thriller playbook, but also effectively dials up the nerve-wracking tension.
ReplyDeleteIn “The Infiltrator,” Florida-based U.S. Customs Agent Mazur has, like Cranston, a flair for convincing performances.
When one of Escobar’s men offers Mazur a hooker, the devoted husband underneath the slick disguise awkwardly concocts a story that he’s engaged, which leads to his next partner: a rookie federal agent posing as his intended.
Despite these occasional missteps, the film doesn’t shy away from implicating the CIA in the drug trade, or from the role of cocaine money in funding wars and international conflicts.
ReplyDeleteThat the film finally proves less than the sum of its parts is unlikely to dissuade Cranston's fans, or audiences seeking a dark alternative to summer comedies and kids' fare, from catching it on the big screen.
DEA agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) attempts to bring down the drug trade from the inside by going undercover as a money launderer for the world's biggest cartels in the 1980s. Brad Furman directed this crime drama based off a true story, with Diane Kruger, John Leguizamo, and Amy Ryan co-starring.
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