What the movie lacks in plot, it makes up for in tone. Take this scene, when Mazur unexpectedly has to become violent with a waiter to impress a drug lord contact who shows up unexpectedly, in front of his wife, who he casts as his secretary. Photos courtesy Broad Green Pictures.
Steven James
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Nothing special stands out about The Infiltrator. The movie is full of clichés and weird editing. Keeping up with all of the colorful characters is difficult, which is bad, because nearly every character we see is important to the story. However, The Infiltrator’s positives outweigh its negatives.
U.S. Customs Service special agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) Even though he is offered an extremely rewarding retirement deal — one he refuses to tell his supportive wife, Evelyn (Juliet Aubrey), about — he decides to take this one last assignment, Operation C-Chase, and goes undercover as Bob Musella, a lawyer who helps transfer dirty money for various drug organizations. To gain access to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s trafficking scheme, Mazur gets help from his new partner, Emir Abreu (John Leguizamo), who gives him access to an informant (Juan Cely) who knows information about the money laundering activities of Escobar’s Medellín Cartel and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which helped transfer the funds. Mazur and his undercover character’s fiance, Kathy Ertz (Diane Kruger), gain the trust of Escobar’s main distributor, Roberto Alcaino (Benjamin Bratt), as well as other higher-up officers in Escobar’s program.
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