Sicario

[FBS]

Second viewing of this tonight. Confirms my first thoughts that it's the best film of the year so far.
Unrelenting tension for 121 minutes.

[alythonian]

Mesmerising score, I really felt it added a lot to the film.
The film itself, Emily Bland rather than Blunt for me, I'm afraid. It was fine, solid etc but just too bland and samey despite the guns and the action and suspense.
6/10

[RandomHajile]

Great! Looks super! Glad both of them (director an DoP) are doing blade runner 2 next :)

The scene with Deltorro in the kitchen looked like a Jordan cronenwelth lit shot

The music reminded me of aliens/James Horner. Solid and pounding!

Yea def as good as cartel land. Wasn't the pictures she was looking at were in that doc also?

Gonna catch this again for sure.

[RandomHajile]

Great! Looks super! Glad both of them (director an DoP) are doing blade runner 2 next :)

The scene with Deltorro in the kitchen looked like a Jordan cronenwelth lit shot

The music reminded me of aliens/James Horner. Solid and pounding!

Yea def as good as cartel land. Wasn't the pictures she was looking at were in that doc also?

Gonna catch this again for sure.

[raj101]

gripping but grim, realtime gunfights galore and full of those wide booming shots of the tex-mex aridness.

The nightvision sequences kept us in the dark too long, perhaps a little too much for a build-up of suspense there. Perhaps a tad more humour too?

3 stars.

[mathew1971]

A little disappointed with this - whilst very well shot and dark/moody, I was a bit bored. Movie didn't really go anywhere - just a series of set pieces. Characters were not really explored and thus didn't really care what happened to them.
6/10.

[D-Fens]

I had high expectations after the excellent Prisoners but partly because the audience, like Blunt, were kept in the dark about what was going on

Such a weird choice, it was like a bad TV show trying to preserve it's mystery yet not much was actually happening, if she was in increasingly crazy situations then fair enough but a few groups of people sitting on the floor or an agent driving away with a police officer was worthy of such histrionics?

[simon__200]

Certainly gripping and tense, but there wasn't exactly anything by way of plot or characterisation. Seems to think that grim, macabre scenes of gore are a substitute for an actual narrative. Disappointed by it to be honest. 5/10

[Neil]

I was ready to dislike the story after the first 10 minutes but towards the end found it a thoughtful examination of American policy. I waited through the credits to find out it was Jóhann Jóhannsson who composed the soundtrack.
A good-looking all round film. 8/10.

[adjacent]

I saw this movie a while back at wandsworth, it was quite full in the screening but I really didn't enjoy this movie. I really didn't expect it to run the way it did towards the end. sadly for me it's a 6/10 and that's only for all the action.