philipfoxe Can't believe the high rating here(the main reason I tried to stick with it) this is a clunking pile. A decent cast, mouthing cliché after cliché. Kate(Blunt) hasn't a clue what's going on so neither do we. I can only surmise that all the positive reviews have been written by company shills. Dross.

djohnson149-1 The opening scene shows a swat team invading a house. Two guys sit calmly watching TV in the living room when the armored vehicle crashes thru the wall. Eventually the swat team opens up newly dry-walled walls, the screw holes having been spackled. Inside the walls are dozens of dead bodies, wrapped in plastic, standing upright. What is wrong with this? The guys watching TV have no problem with the smell of decaying corpses. The swatters don't smell anything until they start opening the walls. The corpses stand upright without any visible support (rigor mortis is very temporary). The walls are being prepared for painting. Did they think no one would notice how thick the walls would have to be to enclose dead bodies?

jonahcybarra-82318 When I first saw this movie in theaters with my dad and brother, I had no expectations and no idea what kind of movie this was going to be. I had heard a few good things about it before going in but really didn't know anything about it other than it had a few big name actors in it. I walked out of Sicario with my eyes having been opened to an aspect of filmmaking I had previously not considered: sound. Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson completely enveloped me with his soundtrack for this film, bringing the already taut emotions in this movie to new heights. Written by Taylor Sheridan, considered to be one of the hottest new screenwriters in Hollywood, Sicario follows the story of straight-laced FBI Agent Kate Macer, played by actress Emily Blunt, as she is chosen for a joint government operative team tasked with bringing order to the chaos that are the Mexican drug cartels. The audience follows Kate down the dark rabbit hole of clandestine operations and gray moral areas as she tries to bring the leaders of the murderous cartel to justice while still operating within the bounds of the law. Operating comfortably outside of such boundaries are CIA Operative Matt Graver and Mercenary Alejandro played by Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro respectively. Both actors steal every scene they are in, playing their roles with a deceptive and dangerous charm. Del Toro specifically steals the spotlight from those sharing a scene with him, finding that perfect balance between cold, calculating killer, and a hurting man seeking vengeance on those who decapitated his wife and threw his daughter into a vat of acid. Director Denis Villeneuve showed me once again why I consider him to be one of our best modern-day directors and one of my personal favorites, breaking down this film to its very color scheme and utilizing color to help him tell the narrative given to him. The audience is also treated to one of the more satisfying endings to a film in recent memory with Alejandro completing a part of his mission of revenge against the cartel in a swift, brutal, yet justified way that helps to bring his arc in this film to a close. It is not very often one comes across a film they would consider to be close, if not, perfection, and I can say confidently that Sicario is one such movie for me.

singh-nitin512 The action set pieces are terrific, there is heavy realism, the morality aspect binds the entire movie together. Great performances from all actors.