Dark, violent, disturbing, and brilliantly made!

Rating: 9/10 (28 October 2015)

'SICARIO': Four and a Half Stars (Out of Five)
The critically acclaimed crime thriller flick; directed by Denis Villeneuve (who also helmed 2013's 'PRISONERS' and 2014's 'ENEMY') and written by, actor turned writer, Taylor Sheridan. The film revolves around a naïve, and young, F.B.I. agent; that's asked to help a special government task force, take on a viscous drug cartel at the border. It stars Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya and Victor Garber. The movie is dark, violent, disturbing, and brilliantly made!
Kate Macer (Blunt) leads an F.B.I. team into a suspected kidnapping raid, on a house in Chandler, Arizona. She's stunned to find out that the house is full of dozens of dead bodies; as well as explosives, in the shed in back, which detonate and kill two officers. Her boss, Dave Jennings (Garber), then asks her to join an elite group of agents, in finding the people responsible; which includes traveling to Juarez, Mexico, and taking on cartel members there. Macer joins forces with two Department of Defense members, to do so, named Alejandro Gillick (del Toro) and Matt Graver (Brolin). She soon finds out that she's in way over her head.
The film is brutally violent and gritty; it's extremely hard to watch in places, and it always keeps you on the edge of your seat. The three leads are all great in it (especially del Toro); I would have liked to have seen a little more from Blunt's character, but she does what she can with the role. Villeneuve's direction is once again superb (I love his two previous movies as well), the story is captivating (and always involving and interesting) and the pacing is intense. The film is just a grade A production, all around, and it's definitely one you don't want to miss!
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