Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (18 March 2017)

Unfortunately, I can't share the enthusiasm with which some others here review this movie. While I do agree that the plot-line is quite clever and that you don't really guess what will be revealed in the end, there are mainly two major issues that kind of ruined the film for me.
The first thing is that I find the characters quite unbelievable. With the exception of Benicio del Toro maybe, all of the characters remain flat. There is an agent that is supposed to carry out the toughest missions and worst crimes imaginable, that is, apart from all moral doubts, close to tears for literally all of the movie. I don't think that a person with her characterization would have ever gotten into such a position. On the other end of course, the tough experienced fighter, who sleeps in the plane and wears flip flops at work, not caring of anything because he is way above it all. I really don't get what is so hard about creating believable characters. Those are definitely not.
The second is that this is again America over everything. Maybe not concerning the moral but apart from that there are the American Super-Forces who show the simple people in Mexico how to do the job.
All in all, those two points drew my attention away from the plot so much that I couldn't really enjoy the good sides, that definitely are there. Shortly said: This is not a Don't-watch but it's, and here I disagree, one of the best movies of any year.