Plot
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Release Year: 2015
Rating: 7.9/10 (1,611 voted)
Critic's Score: 82/100
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro
Storyline
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elected government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Cast: Emily Blunt -
Kate Macer
Josh Brolin -
Matt
Benicio Del Toro -
Alejandro
Jon Bernthal -
Ted
Jeffrey Donovan -
Steve Forsing
Victor Garber -
Jennings
Sarah Minnich -
Pretty Blonde
Raoul Trujillo -
Rafael
Maximiliano Hernández -
Silvio
Lora Martinez-Cunningham -
Jacinta
Daniel Kaluuya -
Reggie
Alan D. Purwin -
Helocopter pilot
Kaelee Vigil -
Immigrant Woman
Kim Larrichio -
Silvio's Wife
Dylan Kenin -
Charlie
Taglines:
The border is just another line to cross.
Trivia:
This is Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins's second collaboration. They will also be working together on the new Blade Runner movie. See more »
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User Review
Author:
Rating: 8/10
visceral drug trade thriller pulls no punches in its grim depiction of
the cross-border traffic between Mexico and the States.
This time french-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve who gave the
viewers a kidnap drama suspense hit international movie "prisoners".
Now coming back to screen with a action crime flick.
Emily Blunt takes the role of Kate Macer, an FBI field agent plunged in
the powerful world of a drugs cartel as well as she trying to make her
way to get a better rank for herself. She delineates perfectly the
emotional conflicts of a woman working with violence and corruption on
a daily basis.
*picks from trailer* The opening sequence in which rows of rotting
corpses are found in a home in Arizona belonging to the cartel sets the
tone for the helter skelter ride to follow in which Villeneuve sustains
the knife-edge tension without a blip.
Nobody is who they seem to be, least of all Josh Brolin who suggests
that he may be a defence contractor although Kate and her partner
(Daniel Kaluuya) believes he may be from the CIA.
Also emerging from the shadows is Benicio Del Toro as Alejandro, an
enigmatic figure who is the sicario of the title - in other words a
hit-man whom you never where he is going to turn up next or on whose
side he will be.
Although the violence is wince-inducing it is never gratuitous in the
context of this particular world, where human beings are completely
dispensable.
it's basically a great action thriller movie. A must see
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