The film allows long silences for us to think but yet is never boring or dull. This is rare in an `issue' film and it should be commended. It never goes one way or the other on the drugs issue and leaves you to decide for yourself what should happen. The strength of the film is that it lets you work it out yourself.
These are the main players but really the cast is deep in quality from those that have bigger roles (Quaid, Bratt, Miguel Ferrer) to those that essentially have only a few lines (Albert Finney, Peter Riegert). Douglas is really good how often can you say that!? His young wife is also very good I expected her to be the weak link but she gave a good performance. Cheadle and Guzman are as good as they always are and play off each other well they have an element of the `buddy cop' couple without becoming caricatures. Del Toro is perfect he gets the moodiness spot on but also has a fun side to his character. The casting is another example of how right the film is. This is typical of the intelligence put into the film it rewards you the more you watch it. The scenes in Mexico are all yellow and washed out giving a desolate feeling, the scenes in political America are given a blue hue to give a colder, detached feel to the business while the scenes with the DEA are noticeably bright and realistic. The film is intelligent far beyond the subject matter. However those wishing something to get you thinking, during and after the film should be rewarded. The thoughtful nature means the film moves slowly and, if you're not used to following stories then it may frustrate you. The stories are told with out over doing it action happens without pomp or fanfare, explosions happen in silence, killings are brutal, swift and final. Looking at the problem across several interlinking stories allows us to hear everyone's side to see the internal problems in Mexico, to see the futility of the DEA's actions even to see the scope of the problem facing the US political machine as it tries to fight a war against the drugs trade on all sides.
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Based on the channel 4 series Traffik this is an open-minded intelligent look at the war on drugs. Over all this a new drug czar is appointed who begins to find that the war on drugs is not as simple as it seems and that it is a war raged in his own home. In the USA the head of one of the cartels Javier is trying to close is taken to court by the DEA who have an informant (Eduardo Ruiz) in the custody of Agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro, leaving his wife, Helena, to take care of his business. (The Numbers stats were current as of September 6, 2020.In Mexico Officer Javier Rodriquez Rodriquez is stuck in the middel of a country where the drug dealers and the police work hand in hand and murder is rife. Read on for the list, ranked from the smallish-sized bombs to the biggest. In the end, we came up with a list that includes movies that have competed at the Oscars and been mocked at the Razzies. We also eliminated films (such as " Call of the Wild" and " Tenet") that were released in 2020 amid the theater-shuttering coronavirus outbreak. We eliminated titles that had no reported grosses because they debuted on streaming (a la Will Smith's " Bright "). From this group, we zeroed in on the films that failed to make back their budgets at the worldwide box office. We came up with our Hollywood hall of shame by culling through The Numbers' rundown of the most expensive movies ever made, focusing on 508 movies with reported budgets of $90 million or more. Using stats from the box-office site The Numbers, we've compiled a list of the 42 movies that, versus their production budgets, lost the most at the box office. And when a movie failed, it failed epically. It's a decent question, but in the meantime, we can say this: Pre-pandemic, there were clear box office winners and losers every weekend. Are there still box-office bombs in 2021? We can note that Disney's live-action " Mulan" (2020) saw a reported loss of $147 million - but given the pandemic that's still sweeping the planet, is it fair to put it in the same category as, say, "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," whose clear failure couldn't be blamed on a disease?
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