Review of Sicario (2015) by Fungusgnat — 02 Nov 2015

The conflict here is, naturally, within Kate, and takes the form of a struggle between a desire to go strictly by the book and generate prosecutable cases on the one hand and, on the other, the attraction of using extra-legal means to knock off kingpins and make a real difference.

I’ve seen few U.S. movies about the border war on drugs. " Traffic" comes to mind. There must be others. "Traffic"was a good movie (Metascore 86), but I like "Sicario" even better—director and composer instill a sense of menace and extreme jeopardy, suspense builds to great concluding scenes (will likely make my top 10 for 2015).

Warning: Movie is bloody and occasionally gruesome—nothing truly over the top by today’s standards but just a tip to the more sensitive types.