by Andrew Wright
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It may be impossible to completely screw up an undercover cop movie, with the very nature of the premise guaranteeing some vicarious hopscotching over the morality line. Judged on plot alone, The Infiltrator is a solid, mid-level walk on the seedy side, with enough based-on-fact dirty business to hold the interest. When you factor in a terrific-even-for-him lead performance by Bryan Cranston, however, it zooms up the ranks into something well worth leaving the couch for.
Sporting a sensational ’80s pornstache, Cranston plays Robert Mazur, an undercover narcotics agent following the money behind the cocaine pipeline into America. As he gets closer to Pablo Escobar’s inner circle, the danger keeps ratcheting up.