Hitchcock said:

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2017)

"You should start your film with an eartquake and then build up on that". Sicario accomplishes that widely and althought its superb tension has been praised it is sometimes regarded as a minor achievement, as if films with this level of production value were a guarantee of thrill. That´s just wrong. Denis Villeneuve is an outstanding director who should be granted a blank check for every movie he makes and this level of technical brilliance should be celebrated without reserves. Special mention to the superb soundtrack.
In this case the only problem seems to be the story, the only possible way to pick on a Villeneuve´s film. Apparently, it doesn´t cover the intricate set of interests in the drug cartel. Now, how many movies, specially big ones, completely lose it precisely because of an over-sized ambition to explain everything? (I´m not looking at anybody, Mr. Nolan). Sicario doesn´t fall in that trap. It never tries to bite off more than it can chew and it succeeds at portraying a complicated matter the only possible way: narrowing the scope.
The only thing that matters is Kate, Emily Blunt´s character, on her way to "finally understand" the big picture. The first half of the film does a special good job at making the audience know as little as she does and although we may step out of her character a couple of times, it´s only the bare minimum so we can get the big picture as well. Sicario is easily one of the best films of the decade. The film industry should work relentlessly to give this man great scripts, we don´t want another "Prisoners", please.