Sicario reviews

You're asking me how a watch works. For now we'll just keep an eye on the time.

I liked this movie but I found it frustrating throughout. Them and their motives I understood but does that make it right what they were doing. Plus I couldn't understand why she was so dense, she was supposed to be intelligent but throughout she kept asking stupid questions. Watchable but frustrating.

It is a rare treat these days to find a movie of this type that takes the time to create an atmosphere and tension through slightly slower than normal pacing and its stunning cinematography. The action sequences alone are genuinely suspenseful, hard hitting and realistic…(it would be nice to think the big Hollywood studios might start making more drama and action films of this ilk and less of the shallower, far fetched, overblown variety…but that is probably hoping against hope when so many people keep paying to see them)…

Overall, I found ‘Sicario’ to be a more satisfying cinematic experience than either of the other two big budget, similarly styled films (‘No Country for Old Men’ and the ‘The Counselor’) that touch on the brutality and ruthlessness of drug war/trade on the US/Mexico border and those involved in it, both of which leaned too far toward the pretentious, arthouse side of the equation for my liking (I know many people prefer that kind of thing, but I'm not a fan of Cormack McCarthy's work as a whole)…

By turns thrilling, disorienting and draining, Sicario exists in a border zone seemingly of its own devising between the art film and the action movie. Be prepared for intense suspense, moral ambiguity, and an ending that doesn't conform to Hollywood norms.