Tension everywhere

Rating: 7/10 (5 November 2015)

It is a "good" thriller, it have exciting moments of tension, amazing gun fights and incredible performances by del Toro, Broling and Blunt. I couldn't drink my soda because of the tension generated on screen almost at the entire movie. But, yes it is only a good movie and it has some points that could have make it better.
First of all and the biggest disappointment, the Spanish spoken on the film, yes I know is a Hollywood movie written in English, but if the director had to bother of filming in Mexico, using the border, a prison and vehicles that seems like the Federal Police; at least they could hire an actual Mexican translator to re-write the Spanish dialogue. No kidding, the "Mexican" characters use phrases that no one speaks, they have weird accents (Sound like actors that born and grew up in the US and Spanish is their second language) and seemed forced to give some emphasis on speaking a language that is not their mother tongue. It is disappointing because it seems that the writer just copied and pasted the dialogues in Google Translate.
Secondly, the lack of information about cartels, it is so funny to think that the biggest head of a cartel, "El hefe" (As the "Mexican" actors pronounce) just have 5 guards in a mansion and poorly trained, no security cameras or neither a control point in the middle of the highway. It's simply fantasy, you can see in other movies or series like Narcos that the main chief is highly secured and well armed. But the boss of Sonora's Cartel just have 5 well dressed guards, give me a break.
Last but not least, Emily Blunt's character, to be fair the agent has the same relevance on the story as the protective plastic on a smartphone, yo can leave it there or not but you won't tell a difference. Even it will be better if you just simply remove it. The agent never get fully involved with the mission or their partners, she looks weird in all the situation and even at the end when she is supposed to take a good action in due of his ethical persona...she just get scared. I mean the character never evolved to be someone important on the story and is Benicio del Toro who takes the lead role on the film, even though his first appearance was completely forgettable.
Just my point of view, good movie though