"The border is just another line to cross."
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
Produced by Basil Iwanyk, Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill, Edward McDonnell, Molly Smith
Written by Taylor Sheridan
Starring: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber
Music by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Cinematography: Roger Deakins
Edited by Joe Walker
Production company: Black Label Media, Thunder Road Pictures
Distributed by Lionsgate
Release date: 18 September 2015 (United States)
Running time: 121 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $30 million
Box office: $80.6 million
"Sicario" is an action crime drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Taylor Sheridan. The story is about a principled FBI agent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel.
Cast
- Emily Blunt as Kate Macer
- Benicio del Toro as Alejandro Gillick
- Josh Brolin as Matt Graver
- Daniel Kaluuya as Reggie Wayne
- Maximiliano Hernández as Silvio
- Victor Garber as Dave Jennings
- Jon Bernthal as Ted
- Jeffrey Donovan as Steve Forsing
- Raoul Trujillo as Rafael
- Julio Cedillo as Fausto Alarcon
- Hank Rogerson as Phil Coopers
- Bernardo P. Saracino as Manuel Diaz
Probably the topic of "Sicario" is just not very interesting for me as I've stayed unimpressed after watching the film. To do justice, I must admit that the picture is shot very well, acting is also on the level - especially I want to mention Emily Blunt as conscientious Kate Macer, Benicio del Toro as dreadful Alejandro Gillick and charismatic Josh Brolin as always calm Matt Graver. But personally for me, that's all.
Advantages
- Emily Blunt as Kate Macer
- Benicio del Toro as Alejandro Gillick
- Josh Brolin as Matt Graver
- Victor Garber as Dave Jennings
Disadvantages
- Slow moving
"Strangenesses"
- Isn't Kate too faithful?
Clue Moments
- An FBI SWAT raid
- Sonora Cartel lieutenant Manuel Díaz
- Texas
- The bar
- The corruption
- The truth about Alejandro
- The shot
According to the director Denis Villeneuve, the movie was conceived at the height of the violence in Juárez in 2010. According to Sebastian Rotella, Sicario examined many aspects of the war on drugs engaged by the United States against, most generally, drug cartels in Mexico, and Central, and South America. Taking a perspective as an American, he notes that the illegal drug trafficking situation in Mexico has remained largely stagnant in the two decades prior to the film's release, and that the film asserts that the American War on Drugs is "turning us into the very monsters we are trying to defeat." Rotella asserts that progress has been made in Mexico, and expresses qualms over the depiction of the movie's "black ops campaign", relative to his experience that most U.S. operations resulted in the arrest and prosecution of drug lords.
Soundtracks
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Alejandro's Song
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Armoured Vehicle
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Balcony
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Convoy
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Desert Music
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Drywall
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Explosion
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fausto
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Melancholia
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Night Vision
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Reflection
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Soccer Game
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Surveillance
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Target
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Bank
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Beast
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Border
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - Tunnel Music
Quotations
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Alejandro: You're asking me how a watch works. For now we'll just keep an eye on the time.
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[last lines]Alejandro: You should move to a small town, somewhere the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now.
* * *
Alejandro: Nothing will make sense to your American ears, and you will doubt everything that we do, but in the end you will understand.
* * *
Alejandro: [in spanish] Time to meet God.
* * *
Matt: You saw things you shouldn't have seen.
* * *
Kate Macer: I was about to have sex with my hitman.Alejandro: He wasn't going to kill you... he just wanted to know what you know.
* * *
Alejandro: Go ahead and finish your meal.
* * *
Fausto Alarcon: You think the people that send you here are any different? Who do you think we learned from?Fausto Alarcon: [Scoffs] The grieving lawyer!
Fausto Alarcon: You wife... you think she'll be... proud to see what have you become?
Alejandro: Don't forget about my daughter.
Fausto Alarcon: [In Spanish] Oh yes... you little one.
Fausto Alarcon: [In Spanish] It wasn't personal.
Alejandro: [In Spanish] It was for me.
* * *
Alejandro: [to Kate] Don't ever point a gun at me again.
* * *
Alejandro: You look like a little girl when you're scared.
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You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 7/10
Entertainment: 7/10
Acting: 8/10
Originality: 7/10
Music and Sound: 7/10
7/10
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