I've seen this before...

Rating: 5/10 (25 November 2015)

I wouldn't say this is a "bad" movie, but it doesn't quite live up to the hype. Deakin's cinematography is what makes it for me, but apart from that the movie feels sloppy.
The narrative seems very inconsistent. Emily's lead role is gradually left behind other character's pursuits, just as underdeveloped though. It ends up in the background as she plays a pointless and somehow pathetic role where she is unable to do anything useful at all to provide dynamism to the film.
The themes of secrecy, rivalry of agencies, covert operations, etc, don't help either since they become very cliché. We've all seen that before, and easily better portrayed too.
Venicio's quest for revenge doesn't seem to fit the mood of the rest of the film as it follows its own path where everything works out smoothly from point A to point B and we can't be really fulfilled with such turn of events.
At one point the narrative becomes a knot and the film can't even make its goals clear and audiences are left with nothing but a feeling that it was a trip without destination.
It sadly becomes just a "one more", which is a shame as I expected Villeneuve to draw a few turns here and there and leave a trail of cinematic mastery as is the case of Polytechnique, Incendies,Enemy or Prisoners.