2015 · action · crime · thriller
Sicario
Directed by Denis Villeneuve2h 2m2015
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.
Our read: Sicario (2015) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sicario counts for a challenge
Heavy, steady, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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“You want suffocating border tension and moral rot under pristine cinematography.”
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