Main story is ridiculously and insulting to true situation

Rating: 3/10 (16 January 2016)

great scenery of El Paso and Juarez true streets and violence but ridiculous story and terrible acting. Critic over-rated because nobody is willing to down play a movie about the tragedy of the drug cartel violence. But in reality a documentary would have been more impactful. By intermixing a fake situation with absurd American actors into the real life violence is just insulting to the situation. The happy go lucky CIA bad cop doing good things = terrible actor; the frivolous female cop whose only purpose in the movie is to gasp at the horror then pretend to be the big girl and join in the fight with sissy slaps = terrible actress; The Colombian hit-man was good and played the dark quiet Clint Eastwood character good but since the story sucked it was just him walking around and grunting. Note: the real story is hidden in this bad movie and it is a short sub-plot of a Mexican cop and his family caught up in the drug cartel violence. Confusing why this was there when watching the movie but afterwards you realize it was the movie.. Very powerful and true to life of really a good man but just caught up in working for the cartels. This should have been the entire movie with more back story of how he became entrapped.