The world surely has no shortage of movies about the
international drug trade or about law enforcement using everything in their
arsenal to take down the cartels. There’s also plenty of movies about the
perils of going undercover to take down a criminal organization. The Infiltrator combines both for a
premise that is not especially original, but which is often enthralling. There’s
something about the story of a person who goes into another world pretending to
be something they’re not. There’s the adrenaline rush of going into the danger
zone. There’s the excitement of getting to be someone else for a while leading
a sort of double life. It’s like getting a chance to be someone and do
something that you’re not. Who wouldn’t like the opportunity to see how that
fits? Of course who wants to take with it the possibility of getting killed?
