a5c7b9f00b 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. When drug violence worsens on the USA Mexico border, the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug cartel responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team. We know from the recent documentary Cartel that the US is engaged in its second (following Vietnam) unwinnable war within half a century but because Sicario is ostensibly fiction the viewer is allowed a glimpse of a light at the end of a tunnel - which is not entirely metaphorical. On another level it&#39;s a case study of how idealism is the first victim in this kind of warby-the-book FBI agent Emily Blunt sees her ideals bludgeoned at every turn having volunteered to take part in an operation designed to bring down the head honcho of the drug cartel which makes a Multinational look like a mom and pop grocery store. Though it may draw the fifteen to twenty-three year old male audience they are not its real target and overall we have to settle for three exceptional acting performances rather than wall-to-wall carnage. I am not sure that I watched the same filmother people,I found it incredibly boring. For me, there was no tension and it was very predictable. Emily Blunt stumbles about in an inconsistent storyline. Benicio Del Toro is incoherent (as usual) most of the time and Josh Brolin goes through the acting motions. It is a shamethe cast is great, but the plot has way too many inconsistencies to enjoy. For example, it is made clear Blunt&#39;s partner is not wanted to help the unit but he just turns up anyway and becomes part of the team? A massive disappointment.<br/><br/>For me &#39;Traffic&#39; is a far superior film on this subject. There’s not much fault to find with Sicario on the level of craft or performances, just its rather sputtering momentum, and the lack of a higher purpose.
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