Totally worth the time and money to go see.
Good acting, great action, you will enjoy it. Very dark morality play about what happens to loyalties once you cross the line.
I know the plots are different, and we don’t have the weak (written the way) FBI agent, but try to compare it to the original. I will still see it regardless, but am curious.
The first Sicario really blew me away when i first saw it as it really stood out in the genre. I had a similar reaction to it as I did when I first saw Heat. Now that we know the 2 main players I doubt I will have the same reaction. But I don’t mean to imply that is what it needs to be a good movie for me.
Compared to the original.
The story in the original is a little tighter, the FBI Agent doesn’t understand that they are using her, the deal for her was they just needed a badge in order to plausibly deny some cross border killings.
The second movie; a plot hatched due to some terror inside CONUS. The highest levels of the .gov give Josh Brolin all the money he needs to operate and take him off his leash. The assumption is the Cartels are now in to terror.
There is some deep morality stuff going on toward the end that is very interesting.
I will be seeing it this weekend. If it’s as good as the trailer I will be happy.
I want to see it, maybe the end of the weekend.
It was good but I think the original was better.
This was more gunfights and some politics.
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I literally just walked out of this movie tonight, but not because it was a bad movie. About 15 minutes into it, 9 kids all under the age of 12 came bursting into the theatre laughing, talking, using their cell phones, etc. They sat in the front and disrupted the whole theatre for about 10 minutes. People left to complain and a theatre employee came in which quieted the kids down for a minute, but soon after they all just got up and walked out making a ruckus on the way out. By this point, I’ve missed key plot points and can no longer follow the movie. I left and got my money back. Management took care of me so I’ll go back later in the weekend on their dime.
Totally frustrating.
I Really liked it. Especially the interesting morality and loyalty areas it explored. Think very much like tom clancys clear and present danger in a modern setting. I think the first one still had a more profound effect on me. Its definitely set up for a third movie which i am excited for.
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This is why I only watch DVD’s in the comfort of my own home. Large screen TV and a good sound system - way better that a movie theater, YMMV.
I saw the movie at 10:00 am yesterday.
I’m seated center/center in the theatre and some huge, sloppy, fat guy comes with a tray of snack crap, sits at my elbot and asks me to move my tray.
So, yeah, going anywhere in public isn’t much fun anymore.
Six people in the place and this guy wants to sit next to me?
WTF?
A roundup of the weaponry used in the film:
I’m up in Flagstaff. The theatre is usually pretty quiet and (if you go to an early show) fairly empty.
Just got back from seeing it. It was good with some good action but I wasn’t impressed. It could have so much better. The plot seemed rushed and I didn’t like the endjjng all that much.
Bromance? LOL
So I got back out to the see the movie. I definitely liked it. Worth the trip, but ranks behind the original in my opinion. Many thoughts about the movie still lingering in my head which is a sign that I liked the movie enough to warrant a second viewing. Whether that happens in the theatre again is to be determined.
Gunfights good. Politics bad.
In retrospect, I think the first movie was about how brutal, corrupt and violent the war on drugs had become.
The female FBI Agent wanted to play by the rules, but in the end of the movie it was clear “This is the land of wolves now.”
She became a part of the problem rather than the solution.
The second movie was more about morality and loyalty.
In the end, everyone touched by the situation becomes somehow infected.
You can keep no morality on these situations, even when you do what is right, it kills you.
All loyalty is always bargainable even to those who you are closest to.
The complete hopelessness of the situation kills all humanity.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save your money.
It started off really well, I liked it up to the ending, which was a let-down. How the hell did Alejandro know who shot him? Alejandro was hooded, he couldn’t have seen shit. The Alejandro from the first movie would have had no problem killing the girl, he nearly killed Kate at the end. Little or no explanation for his moral quandary was presented in the sequel.
Agreed. The ending was terrible - not just bad, in my opinion, but terrible considering the Alejandro character. It was like they had the first 100 minutes of the movie in the can and then realized they had to end it - SPOILER ALERT!!! - so that puke kid is going to be the face of “Sicario 3”?
That kid, I just don’t see a character with that type of origin transforming into a protagonist I want to watch in this film genre. If the kid had made the choice to not shoot Alejandro, then OK, I can see him as a protagonist later on that I’d enjoy watching. Obviously the crowd that’s really into comic book characters will likely disagree, since this kind of villain into hero thing is common there. I enjoyed Deadpool & Suicide Squad, but that’s not the same film genre as Sicario, to me. YMMV.
And the spoiled little “narco-whore” character would not be a likely success in witness protection. Nor would the powers that be in the film be likely to go along with that idea. Bad ending all around.
That said, I’d watch it again, but I won’t pay to see it again in a theater. I watch almost every movie I see more than once. I see a lot, after knowing how it ends, that I missed the first time.