As Montel, Cheadle gives an unnerving, brilliant performance, granting access to a guy who knows what he thinks is right, but can't even begin to make the world resemble that ideal. At one point Montel and Ray are staking out Helena's place, hiding across the street in one of those vans that stake-out cops always use. It's rendered a joke in the movie, but his sentiment is also pretty much the film's point. Javier and Manolo, Ray and Montel toil away, day after day, hoping to get a handle on how the system works, how the product continues to move despite their best efforts. But it's too vast, too distant, and too essential to the machinations of national governments and international businesses.
Traffic keeps moving.
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