Sicario is about a United States law enforcement team\u2019s efforts to capture the head of a Mexican drug cartel.<\/p>\n
(Spoiler Alert \u2013 Skip down to last paragraph to avoid spoilers and read recommendation)<\/strong><\/p>\n Kate Macer (played by Emily Blunt) and Reggie Wayne are FBI agents who discover a cartel safe house in Arizona filled with corpses.\u00a0 They become drawn into a task force headed by CIA Operative Matt Graver (played by Josh Brolin).\u00a0 But also involved is a Mexican national, Alejandro Gillick (played by Benicio del Toro) whose precise role is unexplained.<\/p>\n The task force heads into Juarez, Mexico to bring into US custody Guillermo Diaz whose brother Manuel is a lieutenant in the Sonora cartel.\u00a0 During the return drive a contingent of cartel foot soldiers attempts an ambush but is overwhelmed by the special forces soldiers assigned to the task force.\u00a0 But Macer is troubled by the unorthodox and secretive aspects of the operation.\u00a0 She surmises that Gillick is not a legitimate law enforcement agent and she suspects that the operation is really a CIA hit squad that will be violating US laws by operating in the United States.<\/p>\n Macer and Wayne meet a local policeman they know named Ted in a bar.\u00a0 She invites Ted into her room but she discovers he\u2019s on the cartel payroll and attempts to arrest him.\u00a0 He overpowers and begins to strangle her.\u00a0 But Gillick appears in the nick of time and after some \u201cpersuasion\u201d Ted provides the task force with the names of the other American policemen on the cartel payroll.<\/p>\n The \u201cinterrogation\u201d of Guillermo reveals that a tunnel is used by the Sonora Cartel and a mission is planned to capture Manuel Diaz there.\u00a0 During the operation Macer witnesses Gillick executing Mexican nationals and taking a cartel-owned Mexican federale as prisoner.\u00a0 When she attempts to stop him, he shoots her twice on her body armor and warns her to never point a gun at him again.<\/p>\n Macer is outraged by Gillick\u2019s actions but when she complains to Graver, he warns her that the war against the drug cartels had become a real war and the CIA uses extreme tactics.\u00a0 He also tells her that Gillick\u2019s wife and daughter were executed in a horrible manner by Manuel Diaz\u2019s boss, Fausto Alarc\u00f3n.\u00a0 Gillick is intent on revenging himself on Alarc\u00f3n and Graver intends to use this revenge to accomplish the destruction of the Sonora Cartel.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s exactly what Gillick does.\u00a0 He uses the captured Mexican policeman to pull over Manuel Diaz\u2019s car and then he uses Diaz to get himself into Alarc\u00f3n\u2019s guarded compound.\u00a0 Finally he finds Alarc\u00f3n eating dinner with his wife and young children.\u00a0 Gillick talks about the murder of his family and then murders Alarc\u00f3n\u2019s family.\u00a0 After a decent interval for his victim to suffer the loss, he shoots him too.<\/p>\n Sometime after this mission Gillick sneaks into Macer\u2019s apartment and at gunpoint he orders her to sign a document confirming that Gillick\u2019s team had followed all US laws during its mission.\u00a0 At first, she refuses but when he puts the gun to her head, he tells her that to refuse would be to commit suicide.\u00a0 She signs the paper.\u00a0 He tells her to find a small town to live in where the law still exists.\u00a0 He says, \u201cThis is a land of wolves and the wolves will kill you.\u201d\u00a0 Or something like that.<\/p>\n Gillick leaves and when he is across the street she comes out on her balcony with a gun.\u00a0 Gillick turns to her to give her the shot but she lowers her gun and he walks away.<\/p>\n This movie has several problems.\u00a0 The biggest one is the actress playing Macer.\u00a0 She probably weighs seventy pounds sopping wet but she\u2019s part of an assault team taking down narcotrafficantes left and right.\u00a0 It\u2019s patently absurd.\u00a0 Next, the episode with Ted, the rogue cop is too contrived.\u00a0 Also, Macer seems at the same time drawn to this highly unorthodox mission but also shocked to see commando operations used against foreign nationals attacking the United States.\u00a0 But putting all those things aside, this is a very exciting action film.\u00a0 The acting and action are highly entertaining and the plot resolution is satisfying.\u00a0 I highly recommend this movie to fans of action films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sicario is about a United States law enforcement team\u2019s efforts to capture the head of a Mexican drug cartel. 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