Denis Villeneuve's 'Sicario' Plunges You Into the Dour Heart of a Drug War Sam Cohen - Under the Gun Review
go to original September 15, 2015

Sicario Trailer - Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin (Movieclips Trailers)

In the US and Mexico, the war on drugs rages on. The line between cop and criminal has become blurred in a battle that takes any and all prisoners. The ethical rot brought on by the ever-rising body count pushes people to despair, to dark places from where they can never return. The FBI is a place for men to measure dicks and get off on doling their own skewed versions of “justice.” That’s what Sicario presupposes, at least. Director Denis Villeneuve’s newest presents to you a nihilistic worldview and drowns you in its palpable anguish. Bullets riddle people, places and things like they’re expendable for the ultimate cause. Simply put: This movie is going to blow you away.

FBI Agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) is thrust into the ugliness of the drug trade after being enlisted by an elected government task force burdened with deescalating the war on drugs in the border area between US and Mexico. Hired by a gung-ho agent, Matt (Josh Brolin), Kate quickly gets in over her head. The accompaniment of Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), a mysterious and dangerous member of the task force, Macer gets dragged into a nightmare she can’t shake. Bureaucracy blurs the objective of her mission.

As you may have noticed above, Sicario is a dark way to spend two hours in a movie theater.

Read the full review at Under the Gun

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