Having moral scruples is the faint line between life and death for you, your loved ones and your mission. Success required decisive action and cold brutality when called upon. And we hope to God these kinds of people are one the right side of history.
And that's why the second one fails. Don't get me wrong, it's a fun, little action thriller, but it completely disregards the established character of Alejandro. It's basically a little more grounded Extraction.@@justinbarnett9476
Fun fact: Taylor Sheridan considers Sicario (and his other two films), Hell or High Water, and Wind River a trilogy though none of the characters are connected. The connection that all three movies share is that they have a take on different issues in the US.
That's cool. A thematic trilogy. Sort of like John Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy of The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In The Mouth of Madness. Unrelated except by theme.
Wind River was a bit of a letdown in my opinion. It's like: hey we found some bodies, let's investigate, oh, it was the first group of guys we looked into. Bang bang shoot. The end
@@felphero it's a character piece and also speaks out about native american issues that are invisible to the public eye. It's not meant to be intricate or complex
Obviously he left the maid alive. He ignored her entirely. Also with the torture scene it was left up to the audience's imagination of what actually happened. It was interesting to see where your imagination went. No, Del Toro's character isn't a cartel boss now. He's at war with them.
There wasn't nothing to imagine he was legit raping him The sounds of him moaning gave it away; that was the only thing to take from that scene, he definitely wasn't forcing a blowjob out of him for he wasn't going to risk getting his penis bitten off so the only thing left to do was to flip him out of his seat and (forgive my speech) clap those cheeks, It's truly a disgusting moment and a low point for the character!🤢🤮💯😉👍
If you like this role, check out a movie called The Hunted. Benicio plays a special ops soldier who goes crazy and Tommy Lee Jones is the guy that taught him how to hunt and kill. It’s an intense chase movie with some really good action scenes.
Kate symbolizes us viewers, who watch the events unfold in bewilderment. This superbly staged thriller shows a cruel reality and asks uncomfortable questions without pretending to know the answers.
She symbolizes a obnoxious, brown nose, elitist who thinks she better than everyone. If she wanted change why would she fight the steps it takes to accomplish it
12:20 Mrs. Movies "It's an interesting perspective." HERE'S an interesting perspective. When Ed Calderon completed his training, the first task he was given as a cop in Mexico was to bring boltcutters to a scene and use them to cut the chains off of some bodies a cartel had hung from a bridge. One of the veteran cops said that the cartel was being merciful, and when Calderon asked him "How is THIS merciful?" the veteran replied "They're letting the families have the bodies to grieve over." That was an eyeopener.
Once you realize Kate is not the main character or story surrounds is when it all makes sense. It’s all Alejandro’s story told from the narrative of basically a small antagonist in Kate.
You might as well mate. Mrs Movies is a great reactor but she's not exactly Einstein when it comes to other cultures. I doubt she's ever watched 90 minutes of football in her entire life. 😉😊
16:00 She stopped the State Police assassin. They didn't even have a guy looking in that general direction. If she wasn't there prisoner could've gotten get killed by him. But luckily she wss there and the prisoner was further up in another vehicle.
The entire reason the state police shot at her is because he likely thought she was the target. A lone head sitting in the back of vehicle with tinted windows would look like someone that's being protected. It's why Alejandro told her to get out of the car twice.
From the moment they pass through the border going into Mexico, Villeneuve starts ratcheting the tension and doesn't let it go until after the return scene. It is incredible filmmaking.
It's interesting to me how almost every reactor seems to not get the torture scene with the water jar. The guy with the glasses was making the prisoner drink lots of water, then alejandro comes in and starts punching the dude in the gut. If you've never been punched with a belly full of water, you have no idea how much that hurts. The jar is to imply that he's gonna keep forcing the guy to drink for as long as he needs to torture him. It's just punching, no blowjob or waterboarding required.
Thanks for the explanation. Though I don’t want to know how you know that getting punched in the stomach with a full belly of water would be very painful.
She was just needed for a domestic law enforcement presence but was new so couldn’t be trusted to know what the major plans were. And she proved to be a bad asset so they were correct to keep them in the dark. I actually really liked the next one “Sicario - Day of the Soldado”. Good action.
Great film. This film should have gotten a lot of award recognition, particularly for Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro. Great reactions guys, take care!
Very good acting. Football is not boring. Only Americans and Cowboys call it soccer. Yes, Mr Kaiju Cowboy Movies did leave it in the edit. The Mrs. Looks at herself in the off camera often after a particular pun.
It's early in his career to say this, but I see Denis Villeneuve as the next best thing to Kubrick that we will see for a while. His films are meticulous, with gorgeous design and cinematography. And they are always thoughtful films. It's a career i look forward to following for many years. And the score in Sicario should be listed as a co-star.
What's super funny is that he mentioned to the wifey a couple of Villeneuve's directorial efforts in order to jog her memory, but Denis has way more stunning movies to his credit than the ones brought up. For sure one of the powerhouse Directors of this generation, right alongside Christopher Nolan.
He really knows how to get the best out of his actors too. The performances are often so good they don't even seem scripted, but completely real. Hugh Jackman in Prisoners especially had a chance to shine. He was fantastic in that, and I had not seen him act like that before.
Villeneuve as the next Kubrick: until 2016, I would have said "why not?", but his big soulless Hollywood blockbusters with Hans Zimmer show his limitations.
The writing of Alejandro telling Kate that she would be committing suicide while having HER OWN gun on her is great. That means if she didn't sign then she would be found alone with her gun with her fingerprints since Alejandro wore a glove. I like the dinner scene with the cartel family because they spoke in English since the boys didn't understand it, shielding their innocence from some of the cartel boss's crimes, but when Alejandro said it's time to meet God he said it in Spanish. He was saying it to the boys not the cartel boss, because he knew the boss was going to Hell when he dies or to just add split second dread to the boss.
Yep, "sicario" is the Spanish word for "hitman". As the language evolved from Vulgar Latin, the word comes from "sicarius", which in principle were members of an extremist branch of cloak-and-dagger Jewish zealots who killed Romans and Roman sympathizers. It eventually evolved into a general term for "murderer" and nowadays it is a term specifically for anyone involved in contract killing.
Josh Brolin was the CIA & he was using Delta Operators to raid the tunnels. Del toro was a Colombian lawyer whose family was murdered & in turn became a hitman. Sicario 2, Day of the Soldado is also a very good film.
Should be SEALs. Afghanistan was the SEALs, and they called them a "team" just back from there. Delta was in Iraq. While both wars were ongoing they split them up.
@@fakecubed sorry but the CIA specifically use Delta operators. They are the top of the top tier. Delta was in Afghanistan well before the Seals ever got there.
@@fakecubeddelta operators are on a whole different level than SEALs, even seal team 6. Delta recruits from all branches even outside of the military and there’s only been less than 1k delta operators ever since their creation. There’s currently 2500 active duty seals.
They were both in Afghanistan back in 2001, 2002, but when Iraq started SEAL Team 6 got Afghanistan and Delta Force got Iraq. It simplified command structure. It’s why SEAL Team 6 got bin Laden and why Delta got al-Baghdadi. When this film was made, it should be SEAL Team 6 coming back from Afghanistan, not Delta. They’re both pretty much the same, don’t fool yourself. The SEALs have more underwater demolitions training and Delta emphasizes overland navigation but when it comes to something like this they can both accomplish the mission no problem. They both recruit from their respective branch’s special operations forces. JSOC is one big happy family, the rivalry doesn’t exist. And they all work closely with the CIA, and each other.
@@fakecubed what are we talking about here? “Seal Team 6” that’s funny. DevGru & Delta all have different charters. All I’m saying is in this film the CIA used Delta operators. That’s all. The CIA ran intel on UBL but they were not in control of that raid. That was a military operation. Hence DevGru was used. When the CIA uses a military unit, they only use Delta. That’s just a fact. Seal team 6 is a downgrade from Delta. That’s just another fact. DevGru promotes up to Delta operators. No Delta operators promote down to DevGru or Seal Team 6. You read a lot of propaganda. Hell, I wasn’t even in the Army or Navy & I know this. I was just an infantry Marine, unit 3/5 Dark Horse. In Fallujah 1 & 2. This was all common knowledge when I got out. Maybe things have changed but the fact is, the CIA only uses ex delta contractors or active delta operators. That’s that. If times have changed, ok. Yet I’m not gonna take it from a TH-cam comment. Take care. I’ve never seen Seals use Apache gunships before either. Neither have I ever seen Seals be allowed to run with the FBI, U.S Marshals service or the DEA. Only one unit gets those charters, DELTA!
The second part, Day of the Soldado, is definitely worth the watch, not as suspenseful since it’s different director and it’s focused around Matt and Alejandro. Holds its own as a sequel if you go in with zero expectations
This is one of my favorite movies. The acting, cinematography, score and subject matter make for a tension filled gem. The sequel is imo a good film but doesn't compare to this. Josh Brolin and Benecio Del Toro reprise their roles in the sequel but not Emily Blunt. She's rumored to return in the third film.
12:22 The commentary on the Blu Ray said that among the missing persons posters on the wall past Alejandro's head in this shot are posters for his wife and daughter. I froze and zoomed the frame, and none of the people look like a child, so either they were BS'ing when they said that, or Alejandro's daughter was an adult, or close to becoming one, when the cartel took her. Considering Benicio Del Toro was 47 when "Sicario" was filmed, Alejandro's daughter being full grown is entirely plausible.
The musical score and cinematography are amazing in this movie. Taylor Sheridan is becoming one of the best creators of this time. Everything he does is better than the last.
While Benicio Del Toro's character is frequently silent in the movie, he initially had more lines. "In the original script, the character explained his background several times to Kate," Del Toro said. "And that gave me information about who this guy was, but it felt a little stiff to have someone you just met fifteen minutes ago suddenly telling you what happened to him and who he is." Working with director Denis Villeneuve, Del Toro began cutting some of his dialogue to preserve the mystery of who his character is; Villeneuve estimated they cut 90% of what Del Toro was originally intended to say by screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. Like Del Toro, Villeneuve saw power in stripping the character down to a brooding silence, stating that dialogue belongs to plays and "movies are about movement, character, and presence, and Benicio had all that."
18:10 male on male grape is often used by the criminal underworld as a method of extortion and dominance….plus the giant jug of water was standing next to the bone dry drain so yea…you go it.
I would literally pay to see you go to Mexico and vlog it. Now that I know you a little through your reactions I feel like like I'd enjoy a travel vlog by you two like 10x more. I'll leave it here for your consideration.
This is a great movie and a lot of it goes over most people on first viewing because you're trying to figure out what's happening, rewatching or looking at a lot of scenes afterwards allows you to appreciate the brilliance of how they're showed to us
This is a cartel movie but with top tier actors like Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benedicto Del Rio. Brutal and compelling. This is one of the best movies reacted by our dynamic Cowboy duo
“Now finish your meal.” Just as Alejandro had to every single day. Im concerned if I’m wired wrong but I found satisfaction in Fausto seeing his family die. Not in his family dying. Fausto looked at him with a face that said “you won’t do anything.” And as soon as Alejandro mentioned his daughter, Fausto’s wife was the only one who understood their family was going to be killed. It was only after Alejandro went through with it that Fausto felt that shock. It was as if all that power had gone to his head up until that moment when he realized he was touchable.
I didn’t like that he killed the kids, the wife was just as complicit if she married a drug lord. But like you said, Fausto thought it was his end and accepted it but the look on his face after is priceless.
This movie is phenomenal. Taylor Sheridan also wrote and directed a film called Wind River about a murder on a reservation in Wyoming. You might want to check that out.
@8:03, you have never once needed to say that out loud, we can tell who rules that roost, your wits are unmatched, and even when they are, you never give up, you're always ready for some witty banter.
Benicio standing with his hips face-level with the suspect was him forcing him to look up at him, so he’s all that he can see. Otherwise, he’s getting a face full of balls. And, y’know, a face full of a soggy rag followed by twelve gallons of office water.
The tip of the spear of U.S. military/CIA paramilitary special operation forces making FBI agents look like kindergartners by comparison…I don’t know exactly why, but I find it so satisfying. 😂
This movie reminds me of Apocalypse Now, where you have the incompetence of bureaucrats who want everything done by the book, vs. the people in the field who know how to get things done.
What Alejandro was referring to at the end was that with certain enemies like cartels and terrorists that don't follow rules of conduct or ethics in combat sometines in order to effectively fight back on their level you must be wiling to play by their rules. Essentially, with no rules, at the very least around the edges. As a nation of laws this puts us at a strategic and tactical disadvantage but Alejandro knows that Beth did not have it in her to do this and she would not survive in that world. A word where Realism reigns, basic strong eats the weak. "The strong will do as they will and the weak will suffer as they must" - Thycidides
There is only one sequel. Not to this level but still reaction worthy. It is a great film in its own right. Benicia Del Toro and Josh Brolin return in it. I would like to see you guys react to it also. Thanks for the content.
On that patrol pinching scene with John Bernthal's character: I don't think it was his eyebrow. As any Mexican of a certain age may be able to attest, it was the hair around your sideburn area. You give that a good upwards pull, you'll make a grown man squeal.
You must've missed when confirmed he was Colombian cartel...the scene when loading trunk of police car and Alejandro shot her in vest...and Silvio asked "Medellin?" Everyone knows what THAT is. :)
The best thing about this movie was the cinema photography the shops of the sky and landscapes, and the music is on parallel with some of the best ever great plot line to
Miss Movies, it's policía accent on the second i "poliCIa". Thank you for the video, i LOVE this film so much, Dennis Villeneuve is by far one of the BEST directors of the last 15 - 20 years. "Enemy" with Jake Gyllenhaal is just a must watch.
What I really liked about this movie is that for the majority of it, we only know as much as the main character character does, we only see what she sees.
You guys this isn’t about Del Toro taking anything over…he’s strictly here for revenge and Brolin’s character found him years ago and trained him up and fostered his anger to create a very useful tool/weapon for him to use against the cartels…like everyone knows (I think from his accent) that he is Colombian that he must be aka “The Medellin” a bogeyman for cartels. Broken was just trying reassert order by taking out the leadership of the cartel that had brought not just drugs across the border but the murder houses and IEDs into suburbia. I’d say watch the sequel, but be prepared it’s a lot less well made and somehow even bleaker 😢
At the beginning the FBI team made a huge mistake that almost takes you out of the movie but they recovered nicely once in the house. The mistake was choosing black tactical outfits to the house raid. They should have worn tan which would have been what they would have chose in real life. Maybe for the movie black was the only color available
@@xensonar9652 in a real life situation which was the point of the entire movie what looks cool is not part of the equation. They simply made a bad mistake tactically because 100% of the time a unit will wear camo, it’s a no brainer. If there is a look out who isn’t paying attention he could still see black gear against the tan sand background while if they are wearing camo they would be harder to see hence giving the targets a big surprise when they arrive. But anyway it is what it is
There's a couple of reviews on TH-cam by special forces types...and they thought the raid (tactics) was idiotic. They are probably right, and while it is shame the raid wasn't done 'realistically', from a cinematic perspective it is nothing short of brilliant.
I think Silvio is one of the countless people at the bottom of the food chain who understandably see themselves as just harmless little fish but form an essential step in keeping the system running that ultimately feeds and empowers the big brutal fish at the top of the food chain who have people killed and mutilated and hung from overpasses.
Denis Villenueve is such a great director, his attention to detail is incredible. He did 2 foreign films to ignite his career, Polytechnique and Incendies, which were both great. The rest is history and he is world renowned as one of the greatest directors along with Spielberg, Cameron, Fincher and Scorsese. Sicario is brilliantly unsettling and such a gut punch of a film however, the sequel has a bit more action but lacks Denis Villeneuve's touch yet still good. Can't wait for your reaction to the next installment.
I love both of those early films. He did a great job of respecting the victims in Polytechnique, it’s not easy to do a mass shooter movie without offending. And Incendies has a scene that will rip your heart out. It’s a beautiful movie though.
@@justinbarnett9476 Since I loved _Incendies_ , I should seek out _Polytechnique_ , I guess, although your comment alerted me to its likely source event, the real-life Montréal massacre. I hadn't realized until now that Villeneuve had explored that particular horror show, but it's reassuring to see you say he did it respectfully.
@@DavidAntrobus Yes, it’s about that unfortunate tragedy. You should watch it, I’m pretty sure you would like it. It’s shot in black and white. It’s not misery porn, they spend way more time with the victims and other students than they do with the killer.
"Is this a horror movie?" [Peeks over at news of hundreds of thousands dying every year at our southern border] YES, the worst kind of horror, the kinds that's actually happening.
Gotta check out the rest of Taylor Sheridan's stuff - Day of the Soldado (sequel to Sicario), Wind River, Hell or High Water, Yellowstone series of shows, Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown
I saw the news that the director of this movie will make a part 3 by bringing back the actors from part 1. I think that Kate's unwillingness to sign the documents to certify all they actions might have something to do with part 3 as well, because the story of part 2 is rather It has dire consequences for the protagonist's group.
I've seen the sequel but barely remember it. But this first one I can't forget. Incredible film. I often think about it and get the itch to watch it again, or rewatch the big scenes. It's a masterclass in how to do tension.
He was not involved with Colombia. The guy at the tunnel only asked that because he assumed it was another cartel hijacking the shipment. Which would be more likely than a joint govt task force swooping down and crushing your entire operation
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i have come to love movies directed by denis villeneuve after watching this. i totally dig all the stuff that is just hinted at or implicated (like a possible PTSD symptom of del toro's character, when he was sleeping in the plane) and the grit. the brutality is omnipresent, not just in the violence. if you ever watch "enemy" by denis villeneuve, i will be there. i am so curious, if that would be something mrs. movies could figure out.
The story in the sequel "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" is a little under developed and has the characters change in ways that aren't adequately built up to (I suspect that this is due to editing), but the cinematography, the combat scene coordination, and the acting by Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, and particularly Isabela Merced are excellent and make the movie worth watching.
The sequel is actually worth watching, maybe not on par with the first one, but it's a worthy follow up. There might even be a Part 3 in the pipeline, not sure.
It’s entertaining as all hell. I do like that they show more of the low level cartel members and how they recruit kids, because that scene where the kid doesn’t shoot and gets shot, the cartels really do that. I also like the Alejandro and the daughter of the cartel boss’ storyline. It really humanizes Alejandro
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The cold brutality of Del Toro in this film is legit terrifying
it's very realistic to how special operators are when they're on mission mode
Having moral scruples is the faint line between life and death for you, your loved ones and your mission. Success required decisive action and cold brutality when called upon. And we hope to God these kinds of people are one the right side of history.
He helped create an amazing character. He steals the damn movie in my opinion.
And that's why the second one fails. Don't get me wrong, it's a fun, little action thriller, but it completely disregards the established character of Alejandro. It's basically a little more grounded Extraction.@@justinbarnett9476
@@akhiltrc9708absolutely.
Fun fact: Taylor Sheridan considers Sicario (and his other two films), Hell or High Water, and Wind River a trilogy though none of the characters are connected. The connection that all three movies share is that they have a take on different issues in the US.
Hell or High Water is one of the best movies I've seen in recent years.
That's cool. A thematic trilogy. Sort of like John Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy of The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In The Mouth of Madness. Unrelated except by theme.
Wind River was a bit of a letdown in my opinion. It's like: hey we found some bodies, let's investigate, oh, it was the first group of guys we looked into. Bang bang shoot. The end
@@felphero it's a character piece and also speaks out about native american issues that are invisible to the public eye. It's not meant to be intricate or complex
@@felpheroindigenous life like that is a letdown
The amount of Del Toro's finger that dissapears into Bernthal's ear still gives me nightmares.
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No shit! He was like two knuckles deep
Obviously he left the maid alive. He ignored her entirely. Also with the torture scene it was left up to the audience's imagination of what actually happened. It was interesting to see where your imagination went. No, Del Toro's character isn't a cartel boss now. He's at war with them.
There wasn't nothing to imagine he was legit raping him The sounds of him moaning gave it away; that was the only thing to take from that scene, he definitely wasn't forcing a blowjob out of him for he wasn't going to risk getting his penis bitten off so the only thing left to do was to flip him out of his seat and (forgive my speech) clap those cheeks,
It's truly a disgusting moment and a low point for the character!🤢🤮💯😉👍
Benicio del Toro is so cold but so intimidating in this movie
Lol he always is ....
@@GaParanormal The Usual Suspects?
Very true.
Great Character. Great Actor. Great film.
If you like this role, check out a movie called The Hunted. Benicio plays a special ops soldier who goes crazy and Tommy Lee Jones is the guy that taught him how to hunt and kill. It’s an intense chase movie with some really good action scenes.
The shot of them walking into the desert and disappearing into the night is both beautiful and terrifying.
Just one of those things I guess.
That’s one of my favorite scenes in the movie. It’s just like you said, beautiful and terrifying. Also just really cool.
It's supposed to evoke cowboys riding off, with NVG's instead of stetsons
@@sulivanmagnumspot on
Kate symbolizes us viewers, who watch the events unfold in bewilderment. This superbly staged thriller shows a cruel reality and asks uncomfortable questions without pretending to know the answers.
I think Kate symbolizes the average, over confident woman who thought she could “disrupt” the status quo.
She symbolizes a obnoxious, brown nose, elitist who thinks she better than everyone. If she wanted change why would she fight the steps it takes to accomplish it
@@aj897 Incel thoughts.
That summation is on point
12:20 Mrs. Movies "It's an interesting perspective."
HERE'S an interesting perspective. When Ed Calderon completed his training, the first task he was given as a cop in Mexico was to bring boltcutters to a scene and use them to cut the chains off of some bodies a cartel had hung from a bridge. One of the veteran cops said that the cartel was being merciful, and when Calderon asked him "How is THIS merciful?" the veteran replied "They're letting the families have the bodies to grieve over." That was an eyeopener.
You can't go wrong with Denis Villeneuve & Roger Deakins.
Plus written by Taylor Sheridan. This film was lightning in a bottle.
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and Benicio del Toro great actor too
@@insanitypepper1740not really, denis never miss tbh. He is even more consistent than Ridley Scott and James Cameron
Hell u talking about, deakins goes wrong most of the time
This is definitely a slow burn kinda movie, which is rare these days, but it absolutely pulls it off!
Once you realize Kate is not the main character or story surrounds is when it all makes sense. It’s all Alejandro’s story told from the narrative of basically a small antagonist in Kate.
That’s why the camera stops following Kate and starts following him, after it’s revealed that he’s the main protagonist
I’ll let the “SOCCER IS SO BORING” slide just this once 😂😂😂
You might as well mate. Mrs Movies is a great reactor but she's not exactly Einstein when it comes to other cultures. I doubt she's ever watched 90 minutes of football in her entire life. 😉😊
Meanwhile Baseball and "foot"ball are just 90% waiting. At least sport happens in soccer
16:00 She stopped the State Police assassin. They didn't even have a guy looking in that general direction. If she wasn't there prisoner could've gotten get killed by him. But luckily she wss there and the prisoner was further up in another vehicle.
The entire reason the state police shot at her is because he likely thought she was the target. A lone head sitting in the back of vehicle with tinted windows would look like someone that's being protected. It's why Alejandro told her to get out of the car twice.
From the moment they pass through the border going into Mexico, Villeneuve starts ratcheting the tension and doesn't let it go until after the return scene. It is incredible filmmaking.
The cinemetography is amazing as well.
It's interesting to me how almost every reactor seems to not get the torture scene with the water jar.
The guy with the glasses was making the prisoner drink lots of water, then alejandro comes in and starts punching the dude in the gut. If you've never been punched with a belly full of water, you have no idea how much that hurts.
The jar is to imply that he's gonna keep forcing the guy to drink for as long as he needs to torture him.
It's just punching, no blowjob or waterboarding required.
Thanks for the explanation. Though I don’t want to know how you know that getting punched in the stomach with a full belly of water would be very painful.
She was just needed for a domestic law enforcement presence but was new so couldn’t be trusted to know what the major plans were. And she proved to be a bad asset so they were correct to keep them in the dark. I actually really liked the next one “Sicario - Day of the Soldado”. Good action.
One of the best Action Crime Thriller movies ever made!
They filmed the movie in and around Albuquerque, NM., as well as part of El Paso, TX.
Great film. This film should have gotten a lot of award recognition, particularly for Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro. Great reactions guys, take care!
Very good acting. Football is not boring. Only Americans and Cowboys call it soccer. Yes, Mr Kaiju Cowboy Movies did leave it in the edit. The Mrs. Looks at herself in the off camera often after a particular pun.
It's early in his career to say this, but I see Denis Villeneuve as the next best thing to Kubrick that we will see for a while. His films are meticulous, with gorgeous design and cinematography. And they are always thoughtful films. It's a career i look forward to following for many years.
And the score in Sicario should be listed as a co-star.
What's super funny is that he mentioned to the wifey a couple of Villeneuve's directorial efforts in order to jog her memory, but Denis has way more stunning movies to his credit than the ones brought up. For sure one of the powerhouse Directors of this generation, right alongside Christopher Nolan.
RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson, such a great composer.
He really knows how to get the best out of his actors too. The performances are often so good they don't even seem scripted, but completely real. Hugh Jackman in Prisoners especially had a chance to shine. He was fantastic in that, and I had not seen him act like that before.
@@xensonar9652 100%. Bladerunner 2049, Dune...he's just hitting his stride.
Villeneuve as the next Kubrick: until 2016, I would have said "why not?", but his big soulless Hollywood blockbusters with Hans Zimmer show his limitations.
The writing of Alejandro telling Kate that she would be committing suicide while having HER OWN gun on her is great. That means if she didn't sign then she would be found alone with her gun with her fingerprints since Alejandro wore a glove.
I like the dinner scene with the cartel family because they spoke in English since the boys didn't understand it, shielding their innocence from some of the cartel boss's crimes, but when Alejandro said it's time to meet God he said it in Spanish. He was saying it to the boys not the cartel boss, because he knew the boss was going to Hell when he dies or to just add split second dread to the boss.
My favorite line of the movie is when the Italian plumber pops up and says "Its a me, Sicario"
Yep, "sicario" is the Spanish word for "hitman". As the language evolved from Vulgar Latin, the word comes from "sicarius", which in principle were members of an extremist branch of cloak-and-dagger Jewish zealots who killed Romans and Roman sympathizers. It eventually evolved into a general term for "murderer" and nowadays it is a term specifically for anyone involved in contract killing.
Josh Brolin was the CIA & he was using Delta Operators to raid the tunnels. Del toro was a Colombian lawyer whose family was murdered & in turn became a hitman. Sicario 2, Day of the Soldado is also a very good film.
Should be SEALs. Afghanistan was the SEALs, and they called them a "team" just back from there. Delta was in Iraq. While both wars were ongoing they split them up.
@@fakecubed sorry but the CIA specifically use Delta operators. They are the top of the top tier. Delta was in Afghanistan well before the Seals ever got there.
@@fakecubeddelta operators are on a whole different level than SEALs, even seal team 6. Delta recruits from all branches even outside of the military and there’s only been less than 1k delta operators ever since their creation. There’s currently 2500 active duty seals.
They were both in Afghanistan back in 2001, 2002, but when Iraq started SEAL Team 6 got Afghanistan and Delta Force got Iraq. It simplified command structure. It’s why SEAL Team 6 got bin Laden and why Delta got al-Baghdadi. When this film was made, it should be SEAL Team 6 coming back from Afghanistan, not Delta. They’re both pretty much the same, don’t fool yourself. The SEALs have more underwater demolitions training and Delta emphasizes overland navigation but when it comes to something like this they can both accomplish the mission no problem. They both recruit from their respective branch’s special operations forces. JSOC is one big happy family, the rivalry doesn’t exist. And they all work closely with the CIA, and each other.
@@fakecubed what are we talking about here? “Seal Team 6” that’s funny. DevGru & Delta all have different charters. All I’m saying is in this film the CIA used Delta operators. That’s all. The CIA ran intel on UBL but they were not in control of that raid. That was a military operation. Hence DevGru was used. When the CIA uses a military unit, they only use Delta. That’s just a fact. Seal team 6 is a downgrade from Delta. That’s just another fact. DevGru promotes up to Delta operators. No Delta operators promote down to DevGru or Seal Team 6. You read a lot of propaganda. Hell, I wasn’t even in the Army or Navy & I know this. I was just an infantry Marine, unit 3/5 Dark Horse. In Fallujah 1 & 2. This was all common knowledge when I got out. Maybe things have changed but the fact is, the CIA only uses ex delta contractors or active delta operators. That’s that. If times have changed, ok. Yet I’m not gonna take it from a TH-cam comment. Take care. I’ve never seen Seals use Apache gunships before either. Neither have I ever seen Seals be allowed to run with the FBI, U.S Marshals service or the DEA. Only one unit gets those charters, DELTA!
The second part, Day of the Soldado, is definitely worth the watch, not as suspenseful since it’s different director and it’s focused around Matt and Alejandro. Holds its own as a sequel if you go in with zero expectations
Yeah, I enjoyed it.
I personally think the first one is way better, and It's not even close
the 2nd one is just a typical action flick while the first one is so much more
This is one of my favorite movies. The acting, cinematography, score and subject matter make for a tension filled gem. The sequel is imo a good film but doesn't compare to this. Josh Brolin and Benecio Del Toro reprise their roles in the sequel but not Emily Blunt. She's rumored to return in the third film.
I have one quibble, though. I can personally guarantee that Mexico DOES NOT have a sepia filter.
Another awesome Tyler Sheridan film is “Wind River.” Awesome flick!
12:22 The commentary on the Blu Ray said that among the missing persons posters on the wall past Alejandro's head in this shot are posters for his wife and daughter. I froze and zoomed the frame, and none of the people look like a child, so either they were BS'ing when they said that, or Alejandro's daughter was an adult, or close to becoming one, when the cartel took her. Considering Benicio Del Toro was 47 when "Sicario" was filmed, Alejandro's daughter being full grown is entirely plausible.
The musical score and cinematography are amazing in this movie. Taylor Sheridan is becoming one of the best creators of this time. Everything he does is better than the last.
Such a good movie. And yet another example how a cinematography mastermind, that is Roger Deakins, can create suspense from a single shot.
Fans love the Steve Forsing (the deadly CIA operative with the nerdy looking glasses) played by Jeffrey Donovan.
He’s funny but deadly. I like how he’s not even affected by taking out a car of cartel members. His expression is calm.
This movie aint no joke. Brutal but really well done.
While Benicio Del Toro's character is frequently silent in the movie, he initially had more lines. "In the original script, the character explained his background several times to Kate," Del Toro said. "And that gave me information about who this guy was, but it felt a little stiff to have someone you just met fifteen minutes ago suddenly telling you what happened to him and who he is." Working with director Denis Villeneuve, Del Toro began cutting some of his dialogue to preserve the mystery of who his character is; Villeneuve estimated they cut 90% of what Del Toro was originally intended to say by screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. Like Del Toro, Villeneuve saw power in stripping the character down to a brooding silence, stating that dialogue belongs to plays and "movies are about movement, character, and presence, and Benicio had all that."
The sequel is good. Taylor Sheridan did write it and Del Toro, Brolin & Donovan all reprise their roles. It’s definitely worth watching.
Yes. The sequel focuses mainly on Del Toro’s character, and he does not disappoint.
Ehh, wouldn't call it "good". As a sequel it was terrible, as a movie on it's own its "Okay".
nah it pales in comparison to this first movie
but then again this is a very high bar to clear
It is missing the magic that Denis Villeneuve brought to the original; supposedly there was/is a third in the works - we will see.
It's not as good as the original but it's a better movie than 99% of what Hollywood is putting out these days.
Now guys, you MUST watch Sicario 2, and get ready for another wild ride.
18:10 male on male grape is often used by the criminal underworld as a method of extortion and dominance….plus the giant jug of water was standing next to the bone dry drain so yea…you go it.
I would literally pay to see you go to Mexico and vlog it. Now that I know you a little through your reactions I feel like like I'd enjoy a travel vlog by you two like 10x more. I'll leave it here for your consideration.
This is a great movie and a lot of it goes over most people on first viewing because you're trying to figure out what's happening, rewatching or looking at a lot of scenes afterwards allows you to appreciate the brilliance of how they're showed to us
This is a cartel movie but with top tier actors like Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benedicto Del Rio. Brutal and compelling. This is one of the best movies reacted by our dynamic Cowboy duo
“Now finish your meal.” Just as Alejandro had to every single day. Im concerned if I’m wired wrong but I found satisfaction in Fausto seeing his family die. Not in his family dying. Fausto looked at him with a face that said “you won’t do anything.” And as soon as Alejandro mentioned his daughter, Fausto’s wife was the only one who understood their family was going to be killed. It was only after Alejandro went through with it that Fausto felt that shock. It was as if all that power had gone to his head up until that moment when he realized he was touchable.
I didn’t like that he killed the kids, the wife was just as complicit if she married a drug lord. But like you said, Fausto thought it was his end and accepted it but the look on his face after is priceless.
He did it to cause him pain
Matt Graver is the spookiest creep and Brolin plays him so perfectly
This movie is phenomenal. Taylor Sheridan also wrote and directed a film called Wind River about a murder on a reservation in Wyoming. You might want to check that out.
I love when bad guys try and talk their way out,
"It wasn't personal"
"Oh, shit my bad. Have a good night"
This film totally got snubbed for a Best Picture award at the Oscar’s that year
35:55 "jefe" in spanish means "boss".
@8:03, you have never once needed to say that out loud, we can tell who rules that roost, your wits are unmatched, and even when they are, you never give up, you're always ready for some witty banter.
Such a good movie. Liked the second one too
7:10 El Paso is in the US lol, in Texas.
Benicio DelToro is everything in this. I was shook for days after watching this.
They didn't brake her, they took the blinders off her eyes. But I guess she and others like her prefer to be blind.
Benicio standing with his hips face-level with the suspect was him forcing him to look up at him, so he’s all that he can see. Otherwise, he’s getting a face full of balls.
And, y’know, a face full of a soggy rag followed by twelve gallons of office water.
I don't think the grunts are him being waterboarded. They cut to the unopened bottle and dry floor, and I think that's deliberate.
The thing about striking out in slow pitch softball is an inside joke. Jon Bernthal played baseball in college and professionally in Russia.
I live in El Paso. I am currently watching this reaction while eating chips & sitting at a Lowe's parking lot 😆
The "guy with the glasses" is actually based on a fairly famous Delta operator retired sergeant major Mike R. Vining - a true rockstar
There is SO much about this film that is excellent. The performances. The score. The tension building. The subject material. So good.
"Is this a horror movie?" YES😅
The tip of the spear of U.S. military/CIA paramilitary special operation forces making FBI agents look like kindergartners by comparison…I don’t know exactly why, but I find it so satisfying. 😂
This movie reminds me of Apocalypse Now, where you have the incompetence of bureaucrats who want everything done by the book, vs. the people in the field who know how to get things done.
What Alejandro was referring to at the end was that with certain enemies like cartels and terrorists that don't follow rules of conduct or ethics in combat sometines in order to effectively fight back on their level you must be wiling to play by their rules. Essentially, with no rules, at the very least around the edges. As a nation of laws this puts us at a strategic and tactical disadvantage but Alejandro knows that Beth did not have it in her to do this and she would not survive in that world. A word where Realism reigns, basic strong eats the weak.
"The strong will do as they will and the weak will suffer as they must" - Thycidides
I always forget that Daniel Kaluuya isn’t American. His accent work is great
There is only one sequel. Not to this level but still reaction worthy. It is a great film in its own right. Benicia Del Toro and Josh Brolin return in it. I would like to see you guys react to it also. Thanks for the content.
I believe there’s talks of a third. Probably why they heard that
On that patrol pinching scene with John Bernthal's character: I don't think it was his eyebrow. As any Mexican of a certain age may be able to attest, it was the hair around your sideburn area. You give that a good upwards pull, you'll make a grown man squeal.
@29:40 that guy is the same actor that plays Jasper Sitwell in the MCU, the bald hydra agent.
You must've missed when confirmed he was Colombian cartel...the scene when loading trunk of police car and Alejandro shot her in vest...and Silvio asked "Medellin?" Everyone knows what THAT is. :)
The wife's unimpressed looks and demeanor is so beast mode 💪 but easily torn down and broken by the daughter's charming walk ins 🥰
Annoying wife, constipated looks. Good thing a kid didn't walk in during one of the many r rated scenes...
If you’re being held in a room with a drain in the floor, you should probably be worried.
The beginning is them killing people but not wanting to deal with a body being found / investigated. That was their solution to “dispose” the bodies
The best thing about this movie was the cinema photography the shops of the sky and landscapes, and the music is on parallel with some of the best ever great plot line to
Sicario is about Alejandro all along because he is the hitman of this movie.
Miss Movies, it's policía accent on the second i "poliCIa".
Thank you for the video, i LOVE this film so much, Dennis Villeneuve is by far one of the BEST directors of the last 15 - 20 years.
"Enemy" with Jake Gyllenhaal is just a must watch.
One of my modern favorites. Sometimes I'll go back and just watch that border scene. Excellent tension building.
3:40 The sudden realisation you had that Sicario is quite an uneasy film to watch is brilliant. 😂
What I really liked about this movie is that for the majority of it, we only know as much as the main character character does, we only see what she sees.
You guys this isn’t about Del Toro taking anything over…he’s strictly here for revenge and Brolin’s character found him years ago and trained him up and fostered his anger to create a very useful tool/weapon for him to use against the cartels…like everyone knows (I think from his accent) that he is Colombian that he must be aka “The Medellin” a bogeyman for cartels. Broken was just trying reassert order by taking out the leadership of the cartel that had brought not just drugs across the border but the murder houses and IEDs into suburbia.
I’d say watch the sequel, but be prepared it’s a lot less well made and somehow even bleaker 😢
Brolin* not broken 😅
At the end Alejandro made Kate an offer she couldn’t refuse.
At the beginning the FBI team made a huge mistake that almost takes you out of the movie but they recovered nicely once in the house. The mistake was choosing black tactical outfits to the house raid. They should have worn tan which would have been what they would have chose in real life. Maybe for the movie black was the only color available
Black looks cooler as well. It's more of a striking image when they are closing in on the house, black tactical against the sand.
Rule of Cool ensues.
@@xensonar9652 in a real life situation which was the point of the entire movie what looks cool is not part of the equation. They simply made a bad mistake tactically because 100% of the time a unit will wear camo, it’s a no brainer. If there is a look out who isn’t paying attention he could still see black gear against the tan sand background while if they are wearing camo they would be harder to see hence giving the targets a big surprise when they arrive. But anyway it is what it is
@@tonysoto8949 It is part of the equation in a movie. A huge part.
There's a couple of reviews on TH-cam by special forces types...and they thought the raid (tactics) was idiotic. They are probably right, and while it is shame the raid wasn't done 'realistically', from a cinematic perspective it is nothing short of brilliant.
I think Silvio is one of the countless people at the bottom of the food chain who understandably see themselves as just harmless little fish but form an essential step in keeping the system running that ultimately feeds and empowers the big brutal fish at the top of the food chain who have people killed and mutilated and hung from overpasses.
Denis Villenueve is such a great director, his attention to detail is incredible. He did 2 foreign films to ignite his career, Polytechnique and Incendies, which were both great. The rest is history and he is world renowned as one of the greatest directors along with Spielberg, Cameron, Fincher and Scorsese. Sicario is brilliantly unsettling and such a gut punch of a film however, the sequel has a bit more action but lacks Denis Villeneuve's touch yet still good. Can't wait for your reaction to the next installment.
A lot of people call him the new Kubrick.
I don't know much about _Polytechnique_ , but I do know that _Incendies_ is not foreign; it's Canadian, as is Villeneuve himself. It's also brilliant.
I love both of those early films. He did a great job of respecting the victims in Polytechnique, it’s not easy to do a mass shooter movie without offending. And Incendies has a scene that will rip your heart out. It’s a beautiful movie though.
@@justinbarnett9476 Since I loved _Incendies_ , I should seek out _Polytechnique_ , I guess, although your comment alerted me to its likely source event, the real-life Montréal massacre. I hadn't realized until now that Villeneuve had explored that particular horror show, but it's reassuring to see you say he did it respectfully.
@@DavidAntrobus Yes, it’s about that unfortunate tragedy. You should watch it, I’m pretty sure you would like it. It’s shot in black and white. It’s not misery porn, they spend way more time with the victims and other students than they do with the killer.
"Is this a horror movie?"
[Peeks over at news of hundreds of thousands dying every year at our southern border]
YES, the worst kind of horror, the kinds that's actually happening.
Sicario "It's definitely a romantic word". Missed it by that much.
Gotta check out the rest of Taylor Sheridan's stuff - Day of the Soldado (sequel to Sicario), Wind River, Hell or High Water, Yellowstone series of shows, Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown
I saw the news that the director of this movie will make a part 3 by bringing back the actors from part 1. I think that Kate's unwillingness to sign the documents to certify all they actions might have something to do with part 3 as well, because the story of part 2 is rather It has dire consequences for the protagonist's group.
Not the director.
Needs to be a part 3!
@@Ross.t.b03 Excellente.
I've learnt to appreciate the second movie... The Cartel princess wanting to escape her life & the Kid on the US side seeking to join the Cartel
28:55 how precise ms. Movies is. Always fascinates me
Wind River also written by Taylor Sheridan. Incredible movie.
I've seen the sequel but barely remember it. But this first one I can't forget. Incredible film. I often think about it and get the itch to watch it again, or rewatch the big scenes. It's a masterclass in how to do tension.
He was not involved with Colombia. The guy at the tunnel only asked that because he assumed it was another cartel hijacking the shipment. Which would be more likely than a joint govt task force swooping down and crushing your entire operation
5:38 - that "F@%king Hell" sounded very Australian.
3:48 "Is this a horror movie?"
Yes.
That is a comically large water bottle Mrs Movies 😂
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What an intense fucking film to react to. Thank you very much. Happy Thanksgiving.
The audacity of the mrs to scowl at this movie being picked 😅 this movie is a BNAGER! 😎
i have come to love movies directed by denis villeneuve after watching this. i totally dig all the stuff that is just hinted at or implicated (like a possible PTSD symptom of del toro's character, when he was sleeping in the plane) and the grit. the brutality is omnipresent, not just in the violence.
if you ever watch "enemy" by denis villeneuve, i will be there. i am so curious, if that would be something mrs. movies could figure out.
The story in the sequel "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" is a little under developed and has the characters change in ways that aren't adequately built up to (I suspect that this is due to editing), but the cinematography, the combat scene coordination, and the acting by Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, and particularly Isabela Merced are excellent and make the movie worth watching.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s an imperfect movie but it’s entertaining as hell.
The sequel is actually worth watching, maybe not on par with the first one, but it's a worthy follow up. There might even be a Part 3 in the pipeline, not sure.
The sequel is good, it's just a different genre of film, more of a straight action/thriller
It’s entertaining as all hell. I do like that they show more of the low level cartel members and how they recruit kids, because that scene where the kid doesn’t shoot and gets shot, the cartels really do that. I also like the Alejandro and the daughter of the cartel boss’ storyline. It really humanizes Alejandro
the soaked Bill 😂
They now have to watch Hell or High Water. It's another really great Taylor Sheridan movie.
Thanks for reacting to this movie! Hope to see you guys react to the second one! I love the second one, it's my fav~
Definitely one of the best movies in the last 20 years. I saw it in the theater, and have pondered it ever since.
Part two makes this one feel like an upbeat, fun movie.
What's up with the Mrs' seven gallon water bottle?? LoL
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Great movie 🎬 great cast 👍 enjoy the movie, I think you will enjoy it.