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. Kate Macer leads a Phoenix based kidnap response unit for the FBI. Following Kate's team leading a raid on a known drug den in nearby Chandler, Kate is recruited to work on a special ops team led by Matt Graver of the CIA, he who is on special assignment for the Department of Defense. They recruited her because they wanted someone with tactical procedures knowledge. Outwardly, the team's mission, which works behind a Delta Force team as its primary gun power as required, is to decapitate a Mexican drug cartel by capturing or dismembering the workings of the main players, cartel head Manuel Díaz, his second in command Guillermo Díaz (Manuel's brother), and drug lord Fausto Alarcón. Kate agrees to the assignment as she feels the work of this team would be more effective in stopping the drug trade in the US than the piecemeal work of her current kidnap response unit. The third on the team is a mysterious Hispanic or Latino man Kate only knows as Alejandro, and who she does not fully trust as she can tell that he is suffering from a very traumatic past. When Kate and the team arrive in El Paso for their first mission, Kate learns that the team's workings are not all they appear on the surface - many of the proceedings which would not be considered above board or legal - despite the end goal being as she knows it to be. Still largely in the dark and only given information on a need to know basis, Kate decides to stick it out with the team if only to discover all that she is not told while still believing in the end goal. She may have changing or at least mixed emotions as she learns more and more about what is going on, including the specific reason why she was recruited. Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) and Reggie Wayne (Daniel Kaluuya) are part of a FBI strike team looking to rescue kidnapped victim in Arizona. They find a hideout filled with dead bodies. A booby trap kills two cops. A mysterious Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) tricks Kate to volunteer to join him on a mission around El Paso. He's supposed to be an adviser to the DOD. An even more mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) from Columbia is part of the team with Delta Force and a couple of Marshals. She is shocked to be going into Mexico to retrieve a prisoner.<br/><br/>Director Denis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins deliver beautiful action in the beginning. The drive through Juárez doesn't actually have any big action but the tension is amazing. The scene at the border is thrilling. The first section of the movie is Alice falling down the rabbit hole. The acting is superb. The story is not different but it is told with a powerful intensity. This is simply one of the year's best. Alejandro: "You will not survive here, you are not a wolf. This is the land of wolves".<br/><br/>The story in Sicario is about an idealistic FBI agent is paired up with a consultant with a checkered past, she will have to learn the hard way that combating the new war on drugs sometimes means getting your hands dirty.<br/><br/>Sicario was my most anticipated movie of 2015, just because of the director, the cast and the magnificent cinematographer Roger Deakins was involved in making this movie. Denis Villeneuve has been non- stop impressing me recently with movies like: Enemy and Prisoners, so I was really looking forward to seeing Sicario and boy let me tell you that Denis Villeneuve did it again, because Sicario is one of the most intense and shocking film I've seen this year. Denis Villeneuve made another fantastic movie that's unsettling and brutal. The directing, cinematography and the performances from Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro were fantastic. Sicario is an ambush, a low-slung film about a dirty drugs war with Mexico which challenges and engages in equal measure. It moves with grim tenacity, confounding expectations until its very final sequence.
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