Snooze-fest

Rating: 2/10 (23 March 2019)

So, I watched Sicario yesterday. I had two friends suggest this movie to me. Also the good rating on imdb and a very good cast made me decide to watch it. The movie is 2 hours long and not only did it feel like 4 hours but especially in the first 55 minutes you have absolutely NO IDEA what the hell is going on! And even after you get some explanation, it still doesn't seem enough. I found myself feeling frustrated many times and I was just hoping for something interesting to happen. The only good things about it, are some drone shots and that's about it. It feels like half the time you just see people driving from one place to another or near the end just walk in pitch black for 10 minutes! We learn about Emily Blunt's role in the operation after 80 minutes have gone by! They only needed her because she was a domestic agent and not because of her skills. Even that revelation doesn't force any change to her character which is ridiculous. Also, some scenes went on for much longer than they should have. The only interesting scene is the one where Alejandro enters the Cartel bosses mansion and kills everyone. That's it! Emily Blunt's character is beyond boring and she is supposed to be the protagonist. Actually none of the characters are likable and the movie fails to make you care for any of them. At some point I was actually hoping for everyone to die so that this travesty would end sooner. The final scene is as anti-climactic as it gets... The fact that this has a 7.6 rating in imdb is beyond me! Total snooze-fest! I had already downloaded the sequel, but after that steaming pile of garbage I had just watched, deleting it immediately was the right thing to do...