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User Reviews for: Sicario

Mitzle-deleted-1476635645
7/10  9 years ago
After watching Sicario, I have to say that the movie is pretty great. This movie was made by Denis Villeneuve and he has been making some great films as of late. I think the best way to describe this movie is a better version of "Zero Dark Thirty". If you keep that movie in mind, you'll notice that both of these movies hit the same sort of narrative beats. However, in my opinion, not only is this film much more intense but it is also much better executed. Denis is once again teamed up with famed cinematographer Roger Deakins, and boy do these guys ever know what they're doing. The visual choices near the end of the movie were absolutely phenomenal. These two do well to sure make this movie gets better and better as it goes on. It is very well acted and the characters here are well-defined and interesting. The shining light in this movie are its action scenes where not only is tension built up extremely well, but it also pushes boundaries that you don't often see pushed in films. This film aims to be disturbing and messed up at points and I believe it did its job very well. Now unfortunately, there was one shot which really did bother me, there is a scene where a character is getting strangled and it is very apparent that the victim was receiving no force at all from the attacker. It was the one scene that really took me out of the movies universe. Anyways, besides a few narrative weakness, I would definitely recommend this movie. It might bump up to an 8 next time I see it, but for now I'll give it a 7 out of 10.
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Reply by yngtadpole
8 years ago
Spot on comparing to Zero Dark Thirty, the music and tone was exactly like that and action was muted just like that movie. Very similar narrative tone and awesome insight.
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MightyMike91
CONTAINS SPOILERS9/10  9 years ago
I have been waiting for this film for months now, simply because its made by Denis Villeneuve. I have seen most of his films and really liked them. For those who don't know who he is, he is the director of the Oscar winning film 'Drive' and the insanely strange but awesome film 'Enemy' and one of my favorite films of 2013 'Prisoners'. So let get this review started!

First off this film is dark and grimy but incredibly gorgeous. That aren't normally words that fit every well with each other but Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins make it happen. But let me start this review by the beginning, the plot without spoilers. The film centers around a female FBI agents who fights against drug related crime in the USA. She does a shocking discovery which makes her kinda obsessed to stopping this crime. This role is played almost perfectly by Emely Blunt who sells the whole 'tough female' role perfectly by subtly showing her emotion while stay 'professional' about the job. She got asked to chase the head of the drug cartel in Mexico. The movie is many about pushing your own norms and values for a bigger purpose. Which is a very heavy subject. It reminded my of the movie Unthinkable, which has kinda the same subject. The whole situation brings up a lot of tension between the USA and the cartel but also within the government forces. Along the way you really feel the pain and suffering from the main character who is strangled between her emotions and morals about good and bad. This deeper meaning really attracted me to the film, it was interesting and made me think about mine own.

Besides that we have to talk about how fantastic this movie is filmed. They created this grimy and dirty environment where the drug cartel was the boss and murder was daily business. They did this by amazing wide shots combined with the music and acting. The place really came to live for me. Every shot that filmed was set up gorgeously, you can pause this film at 20 different times and just make a picture of it so you can hang it up in your house as art! Just gorgeously done by Roger Deakins ( director of photography) and Denis Villeneuve (director). Other thing to mention was that night time really felt like night time. There wasn't a moon that shined so fiercely that the actors faces are well lighted. No I was really, dark with some small light sources. Which really contributed to the suspension of the film.

Overall this film was insanely beautiful filmed, even with the sometimes disgusting thing that were shown. The acting was very good and the story was decent with a deeper meaning about personal norms and values. For me it was an awesome experience and I'm looking forward to see it again!

Thank you Denis Villeneuve for matching my high hopes!
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Reply by 1treehillbilly
9 years ago
Denis Villeneuve is one certainly to watch, as his repertoire is fantastic to date. I am even interested in his Blade Runner sequel..although i am not happy a sequel is being made.<br /> <br /> oh and by the way Drive was directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. An easy mistake as they do have a similar style.
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ColdStream96
8/10  5 years ago
**The Good**:

+ Inherently stylish, violently sharp and expertly surprising; **Denis Villeneuve** scores yet another hit with this realistic crime film.
+ Contains those quiet moments Villeneuve is so good at, mixed with the sudden bursts of violence.
+ The realism of the all, the dialogue and the acting help nail the slow pace of the film.
+ Seamless shifts between material filmed with different kinds of cameras.
+ **Emily Blunt** a surprising choice to lead, but handles her part well. **Josh Brolin** and **Benicio Del Toro** are great as well.
+ Villeneuve creates tension in the quiet moments with well-timed music, editing and dialogue.
+ Elegant and sharp action.
+ Grey line between the heroes and the villains of the piece - several characters could be both.
+ The characters are left at a distance and just opened up enough for us to care about them.
+ The final operation is a unique sequence.
+ The thin story manages to surprise.
+ Probably one of the most stylish crime films ever made.

**The Bad**:

- **Daniel Kaluuya** hangs around with nothing to do.
- The story has very little flesh to it, putting more pressure on the direction and acting to deliver.
- In parts, it becomes almost too slow and could benefit from a more evened out tempo.

**Verdict**:
It is a stylish, realistic and altogether professional crime film.
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Gimly
/10  6 years ago
Not since the opening farmhouse scene from _Inglourious Barsteds_ have I seen such masterful control of palpable tension.

_Final rating: ★★★½ - I strongly recommend you make the time._
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Ahmetaslan27
/10  9 months ago
**A good kind of mystery**

A security operation through which a large number of corpses are explored reveals that there is a cartel war rising on the horizon, but in a hidden way, and ends with the formation of a team to eliminate the cartel in Mexico and target the big heads.

The film focuses on the points of view of 3 people in the direction of the case, the first is Kate, a beginner who follows the laws strictly and considers that the mission is a moral responsibility, the second is Alejandro as Benicio Del Toro, who is experienced with mysterious intentions, and the third is Silvio (asiliano Maxim Hernandez), the Mexican policeman on his mission own.

All of these personalities have their own side, who pulls the other into his world, and who is the correct point of view among them. The film focuses on questions and personalities, not events, in order to reach the Mexican cartel. Each character has a special direction to reach the goal, and this makes their opposing ideas cause a sharp collision between order and chaos, and between formulas that allow bad action and the fine line between good and evil.

The film's opposing characters gave the film a mystery and made us wonder what exactly is happening and why it is implemented in this way. Then we quickly get to know the characters, but they are opposite through their actions and reactions. With these details, the director and writer were able to communicate their point of view to the viewer, and it was three things: how and when does information reach the viewer How do they hide this information, how do they benefit from this concealment, and finally how is tension built.

Are Kate right or Matt and Alejandro right? Those who made Kate a marginalized role, so why did they choose her from the beginning until she abused her reactions, as if they were deliberately provoking her? We see the words of Matt and Alejandro and their side conversations, as well as their planning and movements with the mission and Kate, and we do not know what is happening, but when the information reached us, it reached us without value, as if they were taking advantage of Kate's ignorance and her presence for goals, but she is in the first place These targets are unknown.

These vague goals are considered a problem in the subtraction, because when the viewer is not aware of what is happening, the matter becomes blurry and the events are considered vague, but Kate, since she is the character, has the same problem as the viewer, so she became a source of strength and is the basis of the course of the movie. It was wonderful when you see a mystery of this kind.
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