THE INFILTRATOR (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), John Leguizamo (John Wick), Benjamin Bratt (Catwoman), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Yul Vazquez (Captain Phillips), Rubén Ochandiano (Broken Embraces), Juliet Aubrey (The Constant Gardender), Amy Ryan (Birdman), Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck), Joe Gilgun (Pride), Saïd Taghmaoui (Three Kings), Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Becoming Jane), Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In), Carsten Hayes (V for Vendetta), Juan Cely (Blood and Rain), Jason Issacs (Black Hawk Down), Andy Beckwith (Snatch), Michael Paré (Moon 44)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer), director, producer; Ellen Sue Brown (film debut), writer; Paul M. Brennan (The Great Ghost Rescue), Miriam Segal (Good) and Don Sikorski (Article 32), producers; Chris Hajian (The Take), composer; Joshua Reis (Lo), cinematographer; Luis Carballar (The Devil’s Double), Jeff McEvoy (Nerve) and David Rosenbloom (The Insider), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the 1980s, United States Customs Service special agent Robert Mazur (Cranston) goes undercover as “Bob Musella” to infiltrate the world’s largest cartel, and bring down its money laundering scheme by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. He soon discovers that the Bank of Credit and Commerce International has secretly and illegally taken ownership of First American Bank shares in Washington D.C., and resolves to take them down with the ship…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Imagine this as an alternate universe Breaking Bad, wherein Bryan Cranston actually didn’t want to go into the drugs business, and The Infiltrator will be more enjoyable than it already is.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2016

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