| Sicario directed by Dennis Villeneuve |
Some of the sequences and opportunities that arose to move the story forward seemed a little implausible or clunky - for plot purposes rather than any real life situation - for example, the scene at the border with the convoy heading north back into the USA. Given the 'good guys' were so well-organised, hot-wired into the world's most sophisticated intelligence and spying network, why not simply arrange to drive over the virtually empty southern carriageway rather than head straight into the four-lane traffic jam containing two cars full of bad guys with bad teeth, ugly haircuts, repulsive tattoos and heavy-duty bad ass weaponry? For the purposes of dramatic tension and lethal action, that's why. Never mind 'no horses were harmed...' 'No innocents were harmed in the portrayal of this precision-tooled execution scene brought to you by the CIA.'
But I may be nit-picking. The movie is well put together and the three, central performances by Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Bernico Del Torro are highly persuasive. Three and a bit out of five.
