Sicario


In Mexico, "Sicario" means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is enlisted by an elite government task force official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past (Benicio Del Toro), the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.

This was a very gritty and real feeling movie. Benicio Del Toro was amazingly badass from start to finish. Josh Brolin was also great.  Emily Blunt did a great job playing the moral compass but the director spent way too much time focused on her pensive face.  There was no misunderstanding how she felt about the events taking place and the deep thought zoom ins just seemed too much after a while.  They could have trimmed a bunch of time off the movie and kept it tighter with less of that.  Outside of that - there was really not much to complain about.

I would recommend people checking this out. Its a very well done movie and very intense at parts.