An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. When drug violence worsens on the USA Mexico border, the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug cartel responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team. Del Toro is the only reason people can make it to the end. Emily Blunt is already unlikable and to throw her into a weak and unlikable character just really made her presence that much worse. So if you are in love with Del Toro is it worth watching once. If you aren't you better just pass on this film. You expect her character to eventually get better and grow as most do when they face issues, but her character started weak and unlikable and it only got worse as the film went on. Del Toro took complete control of his role and where he is in it, it is amazingly. Sadly, he just does not get enough screen time to really make it worth it. I'm not surprised this movie didn't win any awards. I would have been more surprised if it had. Sicario is so deep, so dark and so real. The performances from Del Toro, Brolin, Blunt and Bernthal made it so real that we really get out of the theater thinking about all of it. Thinking about the daily life of people on the other side of the border, the life of people that dedicated their lives fighting the war on drugs, and the people that are actually willing to sacrifice themselves to change anything. This is The Movie of 2015. This movie deserved tons of Oscars. Bravo Denis Villeneuve. Bravo Jóhann Jóhannsson. Waiting for Soldado although I think that the current movie is already a true masterpiece that will live on for many years to come. Let's hope that Soldado is as good as Sicario even without Blunt. The opening of Sicario unfolds at such an anxiety-inducing pitch that it seems impossible for Villeneuve to sustain it, let alone build on it, but somehow he manages to do just that. He’s a master of the kind of creeping tension that coils around the audience like a snake suffocating its prey.
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