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Sicario

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Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, and Emily Blunt in Sicario (2015)
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An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
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  • Director
    • Denis Villeneuve
  • Writer
    • Taylor Sheridan
  • Stars
    • Emily Blunt
    • Josh Brolin
    • Benicio Del Toro
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    • Denis Villeneuve
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    • Taylor Sheridan
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    • Emily Blunt
    • Josh Brolin
    • Benicio Del Toro
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    • 871User reviews
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    • 82Metascore
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    • Nominated for 3 Oscars
      • 15 wins & 158 nominations total

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    Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Matthew Page, and Emily Blunt in Sicario (2015)
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    Emily Blunt
    Emily Blunt
    • Kate Maceras Kate Macer
    Josh Brolin
    Josh Brolin
    • Matt Graveras Matt Graver
    Benicio Del Toro
    Benicio Del Toro
    • Alejandroas Alejandro
    Jon Bernthal
    Jon Bernthal
    • Tedas Ted
    Victor Garber
    Victor Garber
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    Daniel Kaluuya
    Daniel Kaluuya
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    Jeffrey Donovan
    Jeffrey Donovan
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    Raoul Max Trujillo
    Raoul Max Trujillo
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    Julio Cesar Cedillo
    Julio Cesar Cedillo
    • Fausto Alarconas Fausto Alarcon
    Hank Rogerson
    Hank Rogerson
    • Phil Coopersas Phil Coopers
    Bernardo Saracino
    Bernardo Saracino
    • Manuel Diazas Manuel Diaz
    Maximiliano Hernández
    Maximiliano Hernández
    • Silvioas Silvio
    • (as Maximiliano Hernandez)
    Kevin Wiggins
    Kevin Wiggins
    • Burnettas Burnett
    Edgar Arreola
    Edgar Arreola
    • Guillermoas Guillermo
    Kim Larrichio
    Kim Larrichio
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    Jesus Nevarez-Castillo
    • Eliseoas Eliseo
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    Dylan Kenin
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    John Trejo
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    • Trivia
      While Benicio Del Toro's character is frequently silent in the movie, he initially had more lines. "In the original script, the character explained his background several times to Kate," Del Toro said. "And that gave me information about who this guy was, but it felt a little stiff to have someone you just met fifteen minutes ago suddenly telling you what happened to him and who he is." Working with director Denis Villeneuve, Del Toro began cutting some of his dialogue to preserve the mystery of who his character is; Villeneuve estimated they cut 90% of what Del Toro was originally intended to say by screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. Like Del Toro, Villeneuve saw power in stripping the character down to a brooding silence, stating that dialogue belongs to plays and "movies are about movement, character, and presence, and Benicio had all that."
    • Goofs
      In the sequence following the arrests at the bank, it is stated that something illegal may have occurred that the IRS would be needed to figure out. Making daily deposits of 9000 dollars to avoid the cash transaction reporting limit of 10,000 dollars is a crime known as "structuring". Any law enforcement officer familiar with the narcotics trade would know this.
    • Quotes

      Alejandro: Nothing will make sense to your American ears, and you will doubt everything that we do, but in the end you will understand.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Emily Blunt/Justice Stephen Breyer/The Dead Weather (2015)
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    8/10
    One of those select few thrillers that will have your eyes stuck to the screen from the opening credits to the very end, and I mean that literally: I changed my sitting position many times during the film, yet I clearly recall never ever turning my head away from the film, this is how intense it is.

    With this Denis Villenueve has now consolidated his name as one of most important and gifted directors of our time and has shown us he is here to stay. I truly marvel at how this film is so tightly put together and even despite it faults, which it has, especially in script, it just never gives you a chance to breathe and take it all in, thanks to the atmosphere that is established from shot one until the last one, you are always anticipating something's going to happen and that is the sign you are watching a great thriller. You are always on the edge of your seat and in some occasions you are really biting your knuckles. The movie has a way to throw you into the action that is really rare to find, especially in a highway sequence where I literally felt I was there.

    All of this is achieved thanks to probably the best cinematography of this whole year. Deakins does it again, once more playing with a lot of blacks and shadows and once more succeeding one hundred percent. Also remarkable is the use of helicopter shots which don't feel like connective tissue, but actually part of the organic, that's something really hard to pull off. The sound design of this film is flat out amazing, some of the best I have truly ever had the pleasure to experience. It is so in you face, so tight, it really contributes in making you feel a part of this even in the more intimate scenes. Music too is also excellent and while some may say it was a little too ominous and dark I felt it matched the tone perfectly and enhanced some parts magnificently, contributing to a nail-biting building of tension.

    Of course one couldn't get past reviewing this film without nominating the three great performances at its center. Del Toro, Brolin and Blunt are each better than the other and continue stealing the screen to themselves scene after scene. There really isn't one stand out, the three of them just excel sky high and give depth to characters that are interesting. The characters are really what holds the film together, they are truly developed three dimensionally and explored in depths that aren't normally reached.

    What makes the film stumble is the fact that in never has a good enough plot to make things as interesting as they should be. It really has a hard time in setting up which way it's going and in the end it actually doesn't end up with a satisfying resolution. You are certainly left with something to think about because of the themes, the characters, the atmosphere and the intensity, but all in all the plot doesn't offer interesting turns and not enough moral questioning, unlike "Prisoners", and so remains slightly one-note for the whole duration. It also has a totally useless character in Blunt's partner, which other than never understanding why he was there or what was his arch in the film, I never understood how he was being played.

    Still there is nothing short of amazing in what Villenueve achieves in two hours. What could have been a screenplay turned into a very generic police drama, is actually one of the most atmospheric and tense movies of the year.
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    • What did Alejandro do to Guillermo in the interrogation room? All you see is a drain and hear grunting.

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 2, 2015 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Mexico
      • Hong Kong
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Sicario: Ranh Giới
    • Filming locations
      • El Paso, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • Lionsgate
      • Black Label Media
      • Thunder Road Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $30,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $46,889,293
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $401,288
      • Sep 20, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $84,997,446
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 1 minute
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Dolby Atmos
      • Auro 11.1
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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