The first one was alright but the idea she never clicked on to why she was there i find a stretch. Someone in that job would have a rough idea almost straight away why they were tasked like that surely? More of that moral story line was indeed padding to many people to probably.
You could have got two films simply from editing the current footage in Sicario, the oscar considered edit (the one we saw) or one with all her fretting essentially cut out (for the lads).
It is a good film, but like you say it does have slow parts that knit in for some and not others, i am still on the fence tbh.
Arnie's new film looks pretty funny tbf...