Is there anything Bryan Cranston can’t do? I mean seriously, after appearing as everyone’s favorite meth kingpin, he’s been given a blank check to do whatever he wants. He’s generally starred in terrible dreck the past couple of years like Red Tails, John Carter, Rock of Ages, Total Recall, Godzilla, and Madagascar 3 but everyone gave these a pass; because come on! He is the one who knocks! Besides, he paid his dues for years with Malcolm in the Middle, and all it takes is just one Trumbo to remind us who we’re dealing with. Having said all that Cranston is one of the few good things about The Infiltrator, a boring, clichéd, undercover drug drama.

The Infiltrator is about….well an infiltration into the Medellin Cartel’s (the cartel run by Pablo Escobar) business and money laundering operations in the mid-1980s. The trailer hypes the film as the biggest undercover drug bust to ever happen in Pablo’s empire, but the movie isn’t as exciting as the trailer makes it seem. The film is really about bringing down major players in the Cartel who handle money laundering and the corrupt bank responsible for helping them. The film is less like Narcos or the magnificent Sicario and more like if Black Mass was slower and showed sequences of undercover agents talking about money, meeting with criminal suits in rooms, and being unexciting.