Alice In Wonderland

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 2015)

Good actioner with the customary explosions and buckets of blood. It's about Mexican drug cartels and the DEA agents quest to break them up. Lots of good bad guys and bad good guys, the latter led by Benicio Del Toro, a Colombian hit man hired by the CIA due to his knowledge of the drug trade. He holds the picture together through the confusing narrative and takes it over towards the end of the film. He is excellent in his role.
Not so excellent is Emily Blount who plays a local drug enforcement agent from the Phoenix area hired to lend legitimacy to covert CIA operations by signing off on whatever occurs in their localized drug raid. She doesn't know this, giving credence to my title. Speaking for myself I am tired of Hollywood giving us movies with scrawny, underfed women presented as macho-types who can shoot, punch and drop f-bombs ("GI Jane","Lara Croft, Tomb Raider"). Not believable for a second, and hampers my efforts for a higher rating.