"The Infiltrator" is well acted, but feels too TVish for mainstream

For every Scarface, there's a misfire such as Blow.  The Infiltrator, a new thriller about a U.S.  Customs agent who goes deep undercover in order to trace Pablo Escobar's cocaine business currency trail, falls in the latter category.  The great Bryan Cranston delivers another fine performance (after the underrated Trumbo), but the movie feels as if it's borrowing too much from previous, superior works of this genre (a Donnie Brasco-esque scene, in which Cranston's character humiliates a waiter just so he can save face, feels awkward and so ten-years-ago).  The Infiltrator isn't bad, per se; it's just that its serious, made-for-TV narrative clearly suffers from conviction in the director department.  When it was over, the only reaction I had was, "Is this it?".
C+