Realistic but too many lengths

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2020)

As the title perfectly sums it up.
I liked the very realistic side of the film: both in the actions of the characters, and in the often subjective way of filming, which gives us the impression of being part of the action.
Del Toro plays a dark role that fits him like a glove.
Only one downside to "heroin" (the girl, not the drugs... :D) a little too "teddy bear" for my taste.
I find it hard to find credible that a SWAT team leader can still believe in Santa Claus and imagine that we're stopping and fighting a Mexican drug cartel scourge by the usual little legal procedures, filing files in court and pleading to a bar association...
And who, in his immense sense of infallible justice, persists and signs (or precisely would refrain from signing, even under the threat of a revolver under his chin) to think that one should stick to procedure, even after having seen all the ruthless methods that are the law in "this universe"?
Mouais, and the marmot puts the chocolate in the tinfoil.
But what bothered me the most was the multiple lengths.
However, it started off pretty strong with this SWAT arrest scene.
The tension comes down perfectly afterwards, as if to let the spectator and the characters breathe, who evacuate the tension of what they have just experienced.
And then after about a third of the film... It gets too much... you get bored with each one of these scenes that go on and on...
Any of them? Never mind. But then I come out with the feeling that it was always an exchange between a bit of action, and length... a bit of action... and length.... length... etc... etc....
Several tens of seconds and almost ten different shots to film the desert seen from the sky from a jet in flight ... Is it really useful or was it to fill a lack of elements to hold a "conventional" film length?
Ditto with the surveillance camera images, before stopping a smuggler...
Anyway, it's a pity.
It doesn't have to be a big fart to make a dynamic movie, but here, the overall action seems a bit too limited in favor of images and scenes not necessarily useful to the story, and, what's more, boring.
To sum up, I liked the film, no doubt, but I was a bit disappointed by so many unjustified lengths in my opinion