Bryan Cranston Is Dressed to Impress in 'The Infiltrator' Exclusive Clip
After five seasons as chemistry professor-turned-crystal-meth-kingpin Walter White on AMC’s Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston seems right at home in a story about the illicit narcotics trade. He’ll again be descending into that underworld this Wednesday in The Infiltrator, a based-on-real-events tale about the U.S. government’s efforts to thwart Pablo Escobar’s cocaine-fueled Columbian empire — and Yahoo Movies has an exclusive first clip (watch it above) from the film.
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In The Infiltrator, Cranston steps into the swanky shoes of Bob Mazur, a U.S. Customs agent sent undercover during the 1970s to help bring an end to Escobar’s reign of terror. To do that, the mild-mannered Mazur assumed the guise of “Bob Musella,” a cocky money launderer with skills that might be of service to Escobar and his legion of crooked businessmen, whose greatest vulnerability wasn’t their stashes of drugs (which could always be replaced), but their enormous cash reserves.
Cranston certainly looks like the part of a suave criminal financier in this sneak peek, which shows him arriving to join up with some of his fellow undercover cohorts (including John Leguizamo) while decked out in a dapper suit. The brief clip has the rocking swagger of a suspenseful ‘70s-set saga, and early reviews suggest that the film (from The Lincoln Lawyer director Brad Furman) lives up to its promise, with Variety’s Owen Gleiberman dubbing it “a sensationally intelligent and exciting true-life thriller.”
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With Cranston now firmly established as one of Hollywood’s most versatile and compelling leading men, The Infiltrator bears watching as a possible under-the-radar summer hit when it arrives in theaters on July 13.
‘The Infiltrator’: Watch the trailer:
