Very smartly written, excellent audio, fantastic ride into another world.

Rating: 9/10 (1 July 2017)

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Have yet to see over the decades whether it ranks up there with Luc Besson's Leon for re-watchability, smart writing, excellent story telling and characterization, but Sicario has been one movie I've re-watched happily several times because of all this.
The brilliant cinematography manages to make a typical 'soldier movie' very unnerving and dynamic. You don't feel a static moment in the entire movie and it just rockets from start to finish with unrelenting inevitability for the main hero.
Because the story isn't a 'standard' war movie, it allows for the hero to feel uncomfortable and uneasy throughout, and that's further brought up by the excellent audio and music mix that accompanies it. It's one of the cases where the audio really does heighten the tension, and adds much more to the cinematography.
Without relying on tons of special effects due to the smaller budget also gives this movie a far more 'real' feel than the latest 'Battleship' and such because everyone's forced to work on location rather than green-screened.
Multi-dimensional story, characters with good conflicts in difficult situations, and the feel that everything is constantly out of balance.
Wonderful, worth watching in the theater and the BluRay buy. Really wish they had a 4k special edition with tons more behind the scenes, etc!