Nice acting and directing, but ultra poor (politically correct?) story.

Rating: 5/10 (2 October 2019)

The acting was good, the cinematography was good, action scenes were good, music was outstanding, but the story was just meh.
Why is Kate (Emily Blunt), an FBI agent, so damn worried about some text book rules? Do they carry out operations completely legally? The whole highway scene was intense, but Kate's reaction ruined it. What were they supposed to do when thugs are about to shoot them? Keep idle because it's illegal to retaliate in foreign soil?
Me, who is a foreigner as far as US or Mexico is concerned can see the faults in Kate's character. It doesn't take much to figure out that one needs to bend the rules to get things done. Josh Brolin's character did what needs to be done, and all Kate could have done, if she wanted to help serve her country was to be just a mute witness to the proceedings. But she was all concerned about the legality of the procedures.
I don't know, maybe this movie is targeted to those people who are too much into some human rights thing or something. They'll talk about drug dealers and terrorists having to be put through legal trial just to show that the country runs according to some humanitarian rules.
They should've gotten rid of Kate and just went about showing us how they deal with the drug problem.