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Sicario (2015)
In Denis Villeneuve's taut crime action-thriller about
efforts to stop drug trafficking and drug wars in Mexico:
- the opening bravura sequence of a heavily-armed
kidnap-response SWAT team converging on a suburban house in Chandler,
Arizona (near Phoenix) - and bursting into the living room with
a tank - and then the gruesome discovery of dozens of decomposing
bodies (with plastic bags cinched tight over their heads) mummified
within the home's walls
- the scene of a heavily-armed US convoy going into
Mexico to pick up a major player in the Mexican drug trade, to transport
him back across the US border for questioning; aerial shots and tight
POV shots captured the speeding convoy of black Chevy Tahoe trucks
through the narrow streets of Juarez
- the tense border crossing shoot-out scene at Juárez,
Chihuahua, Mexico, on the crowded, grid-locked highway leading to
the Bridge of the Americas, when principled FBI agent Kate Macer
(Emily Blunt) and a group of US Marshals and Delta Force soldiers
were involved in an operation to extradite a leading Sonora drug
cartel member, Guillermo Diaz (Edgar Arreola) back into the US; the
attempted ambush by other cartel members in numerous other cars to
rescue the prisoner failed when they were killed; as Kate watched
the bloody slaughter, she asked herself:
"What the f--k are we doing?" and she heard: "This is
going to be on the front page of every newspaper in America"
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