Moral ambivalence doesn't cut the mustard.....

Rating: 4/10 (19 December 2015)

Sicario is yet another one of those supposedly morally ambivalent films churned out by the US, that try's and fails to stave off international criticism.
For me this film, like so many others in the same vein simply doesn't cut the mustard. Interference in other countries politics, economics and justice systems is imperialism, pure and simple.
Trying to justify the crapulence of the US's various arms of government, in this case, interceding in Mexico by using the argument its necessary, irrespective of whether or not its morally justified, is simply bullshit, pure and simple.
Yes, apparently, if you are a sheep, you should step aside and let the wolves do their job. That would seem to be the message to take away from this film. Of course, the problem with all of this, as this film can't help but demonstrate, is that if you behave like wolves, so will those you loose them upon. Its peace and reason that changes people for the better, not mutual brutality and violence.
So setting aside my dismay at the questionable tone of this film, what did think of the film itself? Its inherently interesting material, so it is watchable. The acting is of a generally good standard. The lack of morality shown in this film however, for me, simply made it look a lot like propaganda for a cause that has already failed and rightly so. Four out of ten from me.