Sicario (2015)

Release date: 2015-10-02
Country: USA|Mexico
Language: English|Spanish
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Production Co: Lionsgate, Black Label Media, Thunder Road Pictures
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Rating: 7.6/10
Length: 2h 1min

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.

Plot Keywords

drug cartel, neo noir, surprise ending, tough girl, moral dilemma, woman fights a man, death of child, suspense, death of daughter, dark past, secret tunnel, kidnapping, male frontal nudity, assassin, manipulation, deception, torture, black ops, iraq war veteran, crime boss

Short Review

Gorgeously made, with a set piece taking place in tunnels underneath the border that conveys chaos without ever looking incoherent and a throbbing Jóhann Jóhannsson score that's the sound of very bad things on the horizon.