Sicario trailer sees Emily Blunt taking on the Mexican drug cartel
Sicario is a movie that somehow slipped by me and got lost in the shuffle, and that’s a shame. I saw that sweet image of Benicio Del Toro up above a while back, and that was all I really heard about the picture. The new film from director Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) is a step outside the intimate setting, small cast aesthetic the man has made his trademark, and it looks like an exceptional thriller in the vein of old school Michael Mann perfection. The first trailer for Sicario is dark, twisted, taught, and intense in all the right ways, previewing a plot worth unraveling on the big screen. Emily Blunt gets herself entangled in border-crossing corruption in a bad way, and it looks like she’s in over her head.
Watch the first trailer for the upcoming thriller Sicario, read a plot synopsis, and check out a handful of posters after the jump.
Again, the pacing and talent bring back memories of movies like Heat or even Road to Perdition from Sam Mendes. There’s an inherent danger underneath everything, and that scene on the highway almost gave me goosebumps. The director has proven he can play with an audience’s expectations, scare with ideas, and poke at hidden secrets, and bringing that quality to a film about the Mexican cartel is a no-brainer. Sicario looks great, and it’s nice to have a mature dramatic thriller making waves in the sea of family-friendly comic book blockbusters.
Here’s a plot synopsis for Sicario to fill us in on some details:
In Mexico, SICARIO means hitman. In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elite government task force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs. Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past, the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.
Sicario stars Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Victor Garber, Jeffrey Donovan, Maxamilliano Hernandez, and Raoul Trujillo. The movie makes its way to theaters on September 18, 2015.
