Intense, disturbing, and important.

Rating: 9/10 (2 October 2015)

I'm not going to explain the story or give a synopsis, you can read it above.
Sicario is a worm that slowly wiggles its way into your head and nests there, carrying the dirt and slim in with it. This is a pretty disturbing movie, not simply through its violence, but through its depiction of a world that we too often forget about.
The movie way too effectively draws you into the conflict, and Emily Blunt essentially serves in part as the eyes and mind of the audience. Naive, sceptical, ethically in tune, but intrigued, consumed. You know everything happening is wrong, and the words being said probably aren't true, but you HAVE to know.
Denis Villeneuve's last two movies (Prisoners, Enemy) are both two of my favourites in the last couple years, and Sicario is his best so far. Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro both give the best work I've seen them do. Everyone's favourite, Roger Deakins, does another excellent job of capturing the ugliness south of the border. The music is phenomenal, the best all year. Unsettling, creepy, intense, whatever it has to be to fit the moment. The movie is intense, really intense; sweaty palms will be commonplace.
Like Prisoners, Denis (and Taylor Sheridan) again tackles incredibly complicated moral situations better than anyone right now, and gets you thinking. He's described it as a revenge movie, others have called it a (drug) war movie, but I think its just important.
It's a morally stimulating movie for one, but it's also a movie that pushes you to tackle thoughts and world events that you normally don't - or don't want to. It's the kind of movie you want to sink into the collective conscious because, though it isn't full of facts, it's informative. We should all see it, and all think about its subject matter.
Horrible things happen, and more importantly, horrible things are ALLOWED to happen, in our country, and below the border. In case the crime you read about in the newspaper everyday isn't enough, this movie helps drive that home.
But of course, why would you want to experience that if it weren't expertly crafted, inherently watchable, and consuming. Good thing it is.