Sunday, January 31, 2016

SICARIO starring Emily Blunt & Josh Brolin sparring with Drug Lords

SICARIO is a shoot em up bang bang combat the Mexican drug gangs if you can movie that didn't move me.  Canadian dir Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners '13) fumbles with a stereotypical script.  Emily Blunt plays Kate, a 1st rate FBI agent in a male dominated testosterone force.  She is promoted to an echelon of elite drug agents by an enigmatic govt. agent played by Josh Brolin.  Benicio del Toro is also part of the team.  He is even more undercover & mysterious.  Nevertheless, both Brolin & Benicio fall asleep 15 minutes into the movie aboard a private jet one would never think the FBI would get.  The great casting couldn't save this bomb.  I'll cut to the chase, Brolin & Benicio were right to fall asleep.  Brolin answers Blunt's question by saying "We're here because we have to be here."  The real El Chapo & escapee convicts in CA are far more interesting and credible than this violent drivel.

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