Denis Villeneuve‘s Sicario is an intense, violent and grim look in the drug trafficking wars in the border of Mexico and US that doesn’t disappoint on rewatch.
Denis films and gives Juárez Mexico the same treatment he did Arrakis in Dune Parts One and Two. Long menacing shots of the landscape filled with an epic brooding score. Like we are entering a dangerous foreign territory where anything can and does happen.
Assisting Denis, we get masterful cinematography by Roger Deakins and great screenplay by Taylor Sheridan. And of course our trio of stars deliver in this intense drama.