Things just don't seem to be going very well for Bryan Cranston since Breaking Bad ended and was inducted into the select group of TV classics. His performances are good, but the films in which he gives them are much less so. In The Infiltrator, he plays an undercover cop in the 1980s who pretends to be a businessman specialised in laundering drug money.
The idea is to try a different tactic and attempt to trace the money instead of the drugs. This will allow the police to collar the bosses and bankers instead of the errand boys for a change. Thanks to a stroke of luck, the undercover cop manages to gain access to the entourage of the notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar.
The script is based on a book by one Robert Mazur who experienced it all. Unfortunately, director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) doesn't give us much more than a long-winded sequence of all the facts. The Infiltrator is about as entertaining and myopic as reading a court deposition.
US, 2016, dir.: Brad Furman, act.: Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, 127 min. UGC De Brouckère, UGC Gulden Vlies/Toison d’Or
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