2021 · crime · action
American Sicario
Directed by Raja Collins1h 30m2021
The story of the rise and fall of the first American-born drug lord in Mexico, this tale of power, money, greed and betrayal amongst rival members of the drug cartels finds American gangster Erik Vasquez scheming to become the top dog in the Mexican underworld, only to find himself making enemies out of both the powerful cartels and his own allies.
Our read: American Sicario (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded crime · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme crime / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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