Sicario is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Taylor Sheridan and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Sicario received praise for its screenplay, direction, musical score, cinematography, and Blunt and del Toro’s performances. Its sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, was released on June 29, 2018.
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Sicario is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Taylor Sheridan and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Sicario received praise for its screenplay, direction, musical score, cinematography, and Blunt and del Toro’s performances. Its sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, was released on June 29, 2018. The film follows a principled FBI agent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel. The team, which includes Delta Force operators, US Marshals and CIA personnel, travels to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in order to extradite Díaz’s brother and henchman Guillermo Dizaz. While returning to the U.S., the team engage in a shootout with cartel gunmen at the public border checkpoint, killing the gunmen and shocking Kate. The movie was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Editing at the 88th Academy Awards. It also earned BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor, Best cinematography and Best Film Music.
It has been released in a limited release in the United States on September 18, 2015, followed by a nationwide release on October 2, 2015. In the movie, Kate and Reggie Wayne lead a raid on a suspected Sonora Cartel safe house, where they discover dozens of decaying corpses and a booby trap which kills two police officers. After the raid, Kate’s boss recommends her for a Department of Justice and Department of Defense joint task force, overseen by CIA officer Matt Graver and the secretive Alejandro Gillick. Kate joins the operation to learn more about the operation’s true nature. She learns that the cartel uses a tunnel near Nogales, Sonora to smuggle drugs into the US. By following the cartel’s cash flow, the team raids a bank used by his money launderers. Kate witnesses Alejandro kidnapping a corrupt Mexican police officer named Silvio, but he shoots her in her bulletproof vest to incapacitate her and then drives off with her. Alejandro and Matt reveal they used her as bait, knowing the cartel would target her after she foolishly allowed herself to be seen at the bank raid.
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