“Courier X” (** out of four) was a tepid underworld thriller based on the true story of Trenlin Polenski (Bron Boier) who was solicited by the C.I.A. to help cover up a blackmail attempt on the government after the release of a Pulitzer-prize winning book by Gary Webb and how this led to him becoming involved with multiple NYC thugs and mob connections while trying to save his own life. Murky story of various underworld connections, backstabbings, and shootings has too many subplots and characters. The kind of story that practically cries out for the dazzle of Martin Scorcese or Francis Ford Coppola. Boier is somewhat blank in the lead role but Anthony Mangano and Gary Francis Hope really make their mark as hard-hitting thugs.