“Sabotage” is a particularly brutal and bleak movie from David Ayers, who is coming off his very well liked “End of Watch” and decided the best way to follow up that success would be with a morally murky, ultra violent tale of a questionable DEA agent and his run in with a Mexican DTO (drug trafficking organization, because apparently the DEA does not like the world cartel anymore). A fun action movie? Nope. A good time at the movies? Un-uh. Escapist entertainment? Only if you want to escape to a land of cruel murder and betrayal and moral ambiguity.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is Breacher, a DEA agent and leader of a small elite task force of the best undercover drug agents out there, and of course this a rogue group of agents, all of them just a little insane, partying hard in their off time, being total dicks to everyone, and just pretty much living the lifestyle they promote, that of the hard living, dangerous, over the top, gung ho alpha males (and single alpha female), and of course they blur the lines between the good guys and the bad guys, using their authority to do some questionable things, and even when they are taking out bad guys, it is in a brutal, hard way that is hard to look past.Continue Reading …