Sicario - Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin

[SWoll]

In Mexico, Sicario means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elite government task force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past, the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.

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Metacritic Reviews

Really like the look of this, especially with the talent involved. Up there with Black Mass as one of my most anticipated of the year.

[NelsonM3]

Just got back from watching this. Excellent film and refreshing to see something that isn't all CGI and no plot. Amazed that it's slipped under the radar over here given the reviews.

[ajprice]

I saw it a few weeks ago and posted in the 'Films I've watched...' thread. I went in blind except for seeing the the posters and trailer, and was expecting it to be more of an action film. It isn't, its tense, more like The Hurt Locker or Zero Dark Thirty. It's a long film though and felt it, where The Martian is a long film too, but flew by.

Very good film though.

[Trevatanus]

Really enjoyed... the scene around the dinner table amused me

[I Love Cake]

Great film, a few very tense moments too. I'm tempted to see it again.

[Patrick Bateman]

This is ruddy brilliant. The scene at the border crossing has to be the highlight for me.

[hornetrider]

Gutted I missed this in the cinema.

[Trevatanus]

Patrick Bateman said:

This is ruddy brilliant. The scene at the border crossing has to be the highlight for me.

The dinner table with the family for me

[130R]

I thought this was really good too. Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are both brilliant actors.

[parabolica]

Trevatanus said:

Patrick Bateman said:

This is ruddy brilliant. The scene at the border crossing has to be the highlight for me.

The dinner table with the family for me

Silhouetted sunset scene for me.

[mu0n]

Very good movie but I thought her character was poorly scripted. She came across like an idiot. I also didn't see what the 'token black guy' added to it?

At least they ticked the female lead role and black guy boxes though.

[Guvernator]

I don't mind a slow burn film but this was positively glacial. For all it's promise of showing the dirty side of the US's war on drugs, not a lot actually happened. The scenes that were there were pretty good, just wish it had a bit more substance.

[frisbee]

mu0n said:

Very good movie but I thought her character was poorly scripted. She came across like an idiot. I also didn't see what the 'token black guy' added to it?

At least they ticked the female lead role and black guy boxes though.

Yep, would have been a great film if it was just Josh and Benicio.

[mu0n]

frisbee said:

Yep, would have been a great film if it was just Josh and Benicio.

Haha. They should have just scripted her in better I thought. She was very naive and went against everything they asked of her. Whatever they said, she did the opposite.

[NBTBRV8]

Watched this last night not knowing anything about it all. I found it to be really good, but would have liked a few more twists in the story line. But it was certainly tense, especially at the border crossing in the car jam.

[Funkycoldribena]

frisbee said:

Yep, would have been a great film if it was just Josh and Benicio.

Got to agree,totally ruined by her character and could of been a great film but a little bit to much style over substance.

[Rich_W]

To be fair, Blunts character was not a hardened soldier but a low level FBI SWAT agent. So I can understand why she was portrayed as out of depth. It's also beautifully shot as a film.

Del Toro and Brolin were excellent as ever.

Irrelevant point. Emily Blunt.

[Patrick Bateman]

That was the whole point, that she was completely unfamiliar with it.

[P-Jay]

Watched this last night, really enjoyed it - as others said above when it was in the Cinema the trailer makes it look like an all-action film and it's really not, it's a slow-paced thriller with a few (very good) action scenes.

I personally didn't see any great simularaities with Zero Dark Thirty bar the Female lead.

It's not perfect of course. For most of the running time it's a gritty, but mostly realistic thriller with a believeable story, The Mexican Cartels were beheading and otherwise hacking up people and posting vidoes on the Internet before ISIS made it fashionable and the Amercians are feeling their influence in their own country now - only in the last few scenes it goes all extra Holywood with tales of revenge and Leon like superhuman gun play.

Agreed token black guy was largely pointless other than in the scene where he almost gets his partner killed in her home.

[tobinen]

Interesting chat between the cinematographer Roger Deakings and the chap who made Cartel Land

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/video/director-matthew-h...