Sicario:
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force
to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S.
and Mexico.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Taylor Sheridan
Stars: Emily Blunt, Josh
Brolin, Benicio Del Toro
Storyline:
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.
Movie Reviews:
One of those select few thrillers that will have
your eyes stuck to the screen from the opening credits to the very end, and I
mean that literally: I changed my sitting position many times during the film,
yet I clearly recall never ever turning my head away from the film, this is how
intense it is.
With this Denis Villenueve has now consolidated his
name as one of most important and gifted directors of our time and has shown us
he is here to stay. I truly marvel at how this film is so tightly put together
and even despite it faults, which it has, especially in script, it just never
gives you a chance to breathe and take it all in, thanks to the atmosphere that
is established from shot one until the last one, you are always anticipating
something's going to happen and that is the sign you are watching a great
thriller. You are always on the edge of your seat and in some occasions you are
really biting your knuckles. The movie has a way to throw you into the action
that is really rare to find, especially in a highway sequence where I literally
felt I was there.
All of this is achieved thanks to probably the best
cinematography of this whole year. Deakins does it again, once more playing
with a lot of blacks and shadows and once more succeeding one hundred percent.
Also remarkable is the use of helicopter shots which don't feel like connective
tissue, but actually part of the organic, that's something really hard to pull
off. The sound design of this film is flat out amazing, some of the best I have
truly ever had the pleasure to experience. It is so in you face, so tight, it
really contributes in making you feel a part of this even in the more intimate
scenes. Music too is also excellent and while some may say it was a little too
ominous and dark I felt it matched the tone perfectly and enhanced some parts
magnificently, contributing to a nail-biting building of tension.
Of course one couldn't get past reviewing this film
without nominating the three great performances at its center. Del Toro, Brolin
and Blunt are each better than the other and continue stealing the screen to
themselves scene after scene. There really isn't one stand out, the three of
them just excel sky high and give depth to characters that are interesting. The
characters are really what holds the film together, they are truly developed
three dimensionally and explored in depths that aren't normally reached.
What makes the film stumble is the fact that in
never has a good enough plot to make things as interesting as they should be.
It really has a hard time in setting up which way it's going and in the end it
actually doesn't end up with a satisfying resolution. You are certainly left
with something to think about because of the themes, the characters, the
atmosphere and the intensity, but all in all the plot doesn't offer interesting
turns and not enough moral questioning, unlike "Prisoners", and so
remains slightly one-note for the whole duration. It also has a totally useless
character in Blunt's partner, which other than never understanding why he was
there or what was his arch in the film, I never understood how he was being
played.
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