GRADE: 8.5
A principled FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Country of Origin: USA
THOUGHTS:
Benicio del Toro kills it. Awful, mysterious, likable, terrible–utterly mesmerizing with a bare minimum of dialogue.
Tight and carefully controlled, like a Breaking Bad episode. Every frame had a sense of purpose.
The action scenes were original and riveting, both hard to watch and impossible to ignore.