Promising but never lives up to the potential

Rating: 5/10 (9 October 2015)

Despite the good cast and the very interesting topic we get as a result a rather average and very confused movie.
All this because of the weak script.
I am not even sure what the movie wanted to tell. It was like a bad documentary with a very weird structure. It starts with a bang and from there it never escalates, there is no climax. At the end you barely care about what happens.
Characters were never really built and we didn't care about them. There were all bit cliché: the CIA cowboy, the silent avenger that shoots more than he talks, the FBI woman that of course has no life and always follows the rules.
And of course there were plenty of unrealistic/meaningless scenes:
The one with transferring a very important Mexican criminal to USA by crossing the Bridge of Americas and ending up getting stuck in traffic. I was laughing out loud at this scene. I guess CIA can orchestrate a whole convoy of cars and jeopardize the safety of its agents instead of simply using a helicopter (that they use later so they do have one!).
Next, they torture the same criminal on American ground (the same CIA that used to send prisoners for "interrogation" everywhere except USA) only to make a plan so they can find a drug lord and very easily kill him by sending one (1) person to his house. John Rambo would be proud.
Not that killing a drug lord is the solution of bringing down the cartels. Cause according to our CIA cowboy's amazing logic, the problem is the demand of drugs and those who use them. Makes you wondering, will they start killing drug users anytime soon? I mean eliminate the demand you eliminate the offer. Right? Right?