Long-winded and boring

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2016)

"Sicario" is an oddly distancing and expansive movie that seems more about deserts, rural Mexico and military encampments than it is about the things that happen in those environments. Everything seems stepped back deliberately so you lose interest in the story and just notice the shots.
The plot is something about a naive FBI SWAT operative (do they even make those?) who gets involved with the CIA, the Department of Defence, the military, the Delta Force, and so many other military bodies you get confused. But then I guess it's supposed to be confusing.
The point of the thing is that the main character doesn't understand what's going on either, she's being used, etc. It's just not involving enough to be interesting. It's the kind of movie where reading a synopsis makes it sound so much more interesting than watching the movie actually is. In words, you can leave out the boring bits and focus on the bits that matter.
This is what Villeneuve's direction should have done.