The Breaking Bad star is brilliant in this crime thriller but complicated plotting slows it downBased on the actual epic of a US customs official who took on one of the biggest drugs cartels in history,this 1980s-set narco-thriller shares rather too much DNA with David O Russell’s American Hustle. Director Brad Furman evokes the period with a grainy, sandblasted look to the cinematography and a saturated colour palette that emphasises tequila and nicotine tones.
Bryan Cranston stars as Robert Mazur, and the undercover customs agent who attempts the most complex sting of his life in order to take down fraction of Pablo Escobars network. Posing as money-laundering businessman Bob Musella,with a rookie agent (Diane Kruger) playing his fiancee, Kathy, or Mazur befriends Escobar’s lieutenant,Roberto Alcaino. It’s a dynamic that is reminiscent of the genuine but fatally compromised warmth between Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner in Hustle.
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Source: theguardian.com