Epic cinematography with a phenomenal cast makes me wish this was all it could have been. Now, I admit I don't know much about drugs or drug trafficking, so I can't really speak to the realism of the premise but it contains a whole lot of things that seems highly implausible with a lot of questionable choices along the way.
I don't know it the source material was this dumb or if Villeneuve made some very questionable choices but I can say that the end result is a bit of a mess. There are several phenomenal set pieces but even they don't really make any sense to me.
The movie does keep the tension high and keeps us being worried about Emily Blunt's character as she is forced further and further out of her depth. But in the end nothing has really changed and none of the characters has grown or learned anything. We were just witness to an inconsequential part of a huge war on drugs.
I don't know it the source material was this dumb or if Villeneuve made some very questionable choices but I can say that the end result is a bit of a mess. There are several phenomenal set pieces but even they don't really make any sense to me.
The movie does keep the tension high and keeps us being worried about Emily Blunt's character as she is forced further and further out of her depth. But in the end nothing has really changed and none of the characters has grown or learned anything. We were just witness to an inconsequential part of a huge war on drugs.