Arianna's first time watching SICARIO (2015) in a movie reaction. Full Reaction Here: / diegesischad Arianna's Instagram: / _aerii44 #React #Reaction #Sicario
Not to get overtly political, but given the horrors you see in this film, if this doesn't make you understand the reasoning for "the wall", not much more can...though the things that will can't be seen on youtube. Yo promiso. This is just a drop in the ocean-sized bucket of blood that is south of the border.
Director Denis Villeneuve told Jóhannsson that he wanted “music that the audience will not hear, but that the audience will feel like a threat coming under their feet, like Jaws.” The soundtrack gets more discordant the closer to danger the characters get.
I saw this in the cinema and my hands had cuts from where my fingernails had penetrated the skin, and my shoulders were aching from the tension. One of the best thrillers ever made.
@@freshoftheoven965 it wasnt as good as the first but compared to a lot of shit these days it was good. Besides I was talking about Benecio's performance, which was great in both no matter about the rest.
You know I never noticed that she never finishes any of the cigarettes. Kind of a metaphor for what she's doing in the movie. Wants to be involved in this secret squirrel stuff to really go get the bad guys, doesn't want to accept all the baggage that comes with that. Lights a cigarette but never finishes it.
That’s what I thought, she volunteered, and she’s not a civilian, but somehow she was horrified at extreme measures for extreme situations. Maybe she should’ve been a second grade teacher.
Gotta say one of my favorite lines in the movie are at the dinner table scene. "Every night you have families killed, and yet, here you dine." "Go ahead and finish your meal."
@@lockekappa500 He impies 2 things here, the druglord will have his dinner with his family and die just like all other families he killed. Also a religious reference to the last supper (final meal before they all die) as the druglord is religious (most cartel bosses and members are very religious ironically).
24:00 the scene of their silhouettes descending into darkness against the last light of sunset is probably one of the top 3 best of Roger Deakins' amazing career as a cinematographer. I spectacular shot in a film packed with spectacular shots.
the tighter shots in the final "stand off" from the balcony, Alejandro framed in a bright sky - his soul is clear & he is at peace with who he is and what he does, where as Kate is framed in the darkness of her balcony, she's forever tainted by these events and they will haunt her forever.
This movie does a good job of making you feel tense and anxious the whole time you are watching it. The music is a big part of it. I also think all the kind of "B role" landscape shots make it feel slightly like a documentary which makes everything feel a little more real.
Please watch the other Taylor Sheridan western movies, "Wind River" and "Hell or High Water". They are some of the best movies to come out in the last decade in my opinion, and have received little attention for how good they are.
This was one of Denis Vileneuve's best works as director. Ben Del Toro plays the wolf in this story and he was created by the cartel leader and he embraces that darkness without a single doubt and he would use any means he has to get his target and he did just that and Emily Blunt played her character to perfection and that is why she is one of the few actresses who can deliver a great performance in anything she plays and she has the heart to do it. Sicario is one of my top 10 films and the truly terrifying thing is that this is the war on drugs in a nutshell and why it is scary what the cartel does to their foes and those who get in their way and why they need to be stopped as well. Also the ending when the wolf gives her an out and the gun he threatened her with had no bullets in the clip and she wanted to do it. But he knew that she wouldn't do it due to her integrity and that she would be doing him a favor as well. But like the cigarette she never finishes it. Sicario was a masterclass. But the sequel fell short and didn't have the same level as the first one.
Sicario is one of my favorite movies of all time. Del Toro, Borlin and Blunt are all masterful in their acting. The score definitely gave you that impending doom feeling.
Sicario and the sequel really hold you by the throat and don't let go Hard enough to keep you in place, but light enough to keep you conscious so you watch everything unfold
One of my favorite scenes is the very end where Kate points her weapon at Alejandro and he half turns…then he turns all the way to face her. Inviting her to shoot.
I feel like this movie and Day of the Soldado are so under the radar, and that's such a shame. I don't know many people who even know about this movie, which sucks because both movies are two of the most incredible, beautifully written and executed pieces of cinema I've personally ever seen.
It's quite a movie, the way it was built and as you said, the shots, the music, it's all part of the experience. There's not a whole lot of movies like this in terms of style but all of the movies from Denis Villeneuve that I've watched, they all have this element, some even have a more indy movie feel to them but that little something else is always there. A great reaction, I'm glad you were all for it. I don't know if you intend to watch the second movie, it's obviously not the same but I feel it's worth a watch. Thanks so much for this reaction!
Sicario is a masterpiece, it's one of those movies that I, and many other fans, pretend that it doesn't have a sequel, like with Pacific Rim. The tension, the build up, the acting, the dialogue, etc., all top notch. One of my favorite thriller/crime movies of all time, like Seven (1995).
Most react channels annoy me cause they just watch movies and do not add anything. But you genuinely made me enjoy the movie as if I was watching it for the first time again.
Truly one of the most unappreciated movies of our time... I remember coming out of the theatre in just pure awe trying to process it all. The writing, directing and acting is all stellar.
This movie is in my top 20 all-time. As you stated so well, the interplay of tension surrounding the action and the slow musical build ups is forceful and persistent. It's like being placed atop a high wire and being asked to stay there for a couple of hours. It also stars my fav actress Ms. Blunt and Benecio and Josh are ruthless and necessary as she butts heads with them. What a movie.
This film is really good at exploring the reality of good and evil, and how nothing is necessarily black and white. “ do you really want to make a difference or would you like to pretend like you’re making a difference” - A Matter of film ( video essay on sicario)
When I was in Iraq we had incidents like that bridge scene almost everyday. There were militia that would purposely follow us and watch our every move, sometimes they would take pot shots at us when we weren’t paying attention or leave fake IEDs in plain sight just to get us to leave the vehicle and investigate.
I was born in El Paso. We crossed the Rio Grande many time on shopping trips when I was a kid in the late '60s to early '70s. My last trip there was in 73. The entire area has changed so much since those days.
Every shot told a story of what was about to happen and makes the audience put the peices togethe. Like the entry to Juarez was empty but there was traffic on the way out
What a movie! That dark menacing soundtrack summed up the movie in your ears. Benecio Del Toro was born for this movie, he excelled in his role, no other actor could have done it better. Emily Blunt & Josh Brolin were brilliant to. It's a movie that flew under the (tunnels) radar.
You missed an important point in the scene with the family at the dinner table. After the drug lord mentioned the assassin's wife, the assassin added that it was his daughter killed also. You see the drug lord's wife gasps and cringes. I believe that at that moment, she knows that it may not just be only her husband who may be killed.
One of my favorite films. Great writing & execution on many levels...the cinematography (as you mentioned), acting, constant tension, & superb ominous soundtrack are such big standouts.
#1 The Beast by Jóhann Jóhannsson is masterful music. #2 Wind River, Sicario 1 & 2, Hell Or High Water, 1883.. certified bangers. Taylor Sheridan, king of modern day westerns.
Denis Villeneuve should make all of the films. Another really great film on this level is Steven Soderbergh's Traffic - again with Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones and Don Cheadle. Great film about drug traffic from four colliding story perspectives.
I found the ending hilarious. Cause for a government agency that does a lot of cloak and dagger of epic proportions, there's no way they can get around an actual signature and they're not concerned she'll run to some Inspector General.
There can never be another Kubrick, but Villeneuve is making a solid case for revision. I've seen everything he's made, including the Canadian films and his vision and approach are impeccable. Gorgeous design and cinematography, scores...every detail of his films feels considered. And he's got years to go. Hup!
This was super refreshing when it dropped. Showed how deep the "war on drugs" is and how much damage it has done to the world and the people that live in it.
They asked her in depth questions to find weak points. They didn’t have want to throw her in the loop of going after the Cartel with her having vulnerabilities.
As a Mexican American, you can't imagine the cartels do to people who disrespect them and that's why every Mexican in US and Mexico are quiet to talking about it
Denis, Roger Deakins, Taylor Sheridan (writer), and Jóhann Jóhannsson (composer) are a premium filmmaking team, hands down. Add in a stellar cast, this movie is nearly perfect. The fact it didn't win ANY Oscars is another travesty.
I always love the first scene they just hit us harder and harder with miss shot of shotgun to bodies in the wall and Boom Explosive out of nowhere in first 10 min "chef kiss" to this opening scene
Benicio del Toro is one of the finest actors of the last fifty years, another outstanding performance in "Traffic" a must watch. Diegesis: the finest crime drama movie ever made: "The French Connection", based on a true story, nominated for 30 movie industry awards, winning 18 awards, including Academy Awards for Best Picture (1972), Best Director (William Friedkin), Best Actor (Gene Hackman), The Motion Picture Editors Guild (2012) - the tenth best edited film of all time, and so on, buy this movie, steal it, rent it, but watch it.
Arianna, Chad, Maple if you want to watch how good this movie is or how authentic it is, then either watch Green Berets reaction to this or even BRCC veteran's react to this they do a good job and you'll learn a bit also, especially the Green Berets as Sean one of the Green Berets actually has done the something like the start of the movie.
One of the greatest movies this is truly a movie that stands out from the rest. After watching these movies and the punisher series my thinking you have to become a monster to fight the other monsters
The Agent with the glasses is modeled after one of the original members of Delta Force, the Unit assisting Graver in the deception operation. SGM Mike Vining. Delta operates in the shadow world between covert military operations and deep black intelligence activities. The scene when they move into the tunnels and descend into the darkness is emblematic of that. Notice the stark horizon line as they disappear into the black, like they are submerging under the ocean.
The sound in this film is quietly amazing whether it's just the ambient sound or that haunting incidental music and strangely, I noticed it even more, the second time I watched it. Also, she must be freaking out and asking WTF they're doing when she sees that Delta Force are attached - you'd know instantly that whatever they're doing is going to be sketchy as fuck. And as always, Del Toro with another acting masterclass.
He wanted the boss to feel how it felt for him having his family killed, before he killed him. Looking back at her at the end, her aiming at him, his calmness would've welcomed it - the end of his own pain/heartbreak...but of course she couldn't be like him.
the bodies hanging from the bridge is a real thing that happened back during the war for Juarez. IIRC 14 bodies hung from the bridge as victims of the Sinaloa Cartel as examples of what happens to those who get in the way.
I loved the part at the end of the movie when Benicio Del Toro breaks the fourth wall, looks directly at viewer and says: "Maybe I am. Maybe I am Sicario"
This is a phenomenal movie and Del Toro character is one of the most badass ever! Although I keep thinking back to the quote Captain Price says in Modern Warfare, "we get our hands dirty so the rest of the world stays clean." Emily Blunt's character is someone who I see who wants to take the gloves off in order to take down these men but can't because of the line she draws.
If you notice...when Deltoro is interrogating the guy the floor is dry, the water jug is sealed...but hes choking on something. Its highly likely Del Toro is doing you know what to the man. Thats the level of GET BACK his character is going for.
I believe that Tayler Sheridan wrote this movie. Not sure if you've watched Yellowstone but Yellowstone for Drama and suspense is very similar. You might want to check that show out
I remember watching that first scene and just thinking how evil that whole scenario was. The wall of bodies, and then the booby trapped shed. I grew up on the AZ border and things have changed so so much over the years. More and more people suffer on both sides of the border. This movie, cast, and director are all excellent!
A year too late to your reaction but yes you're right. They didn't take the ex-army lawyer guy but Kate because she was the easy target. They both have the same outstanding morals but it's easier for the 'DOD advisors' to break Kate. In the end scene, she points her gun at Alejandro but doesn't shoot. Her morals didn't come in her way, it was him. He had asked her never to point a gun at him and he is the alpha wolf. Her putting the gun down symbolises her being broken.
If you thought the casting was great. Here are some of the crew : Writer - Taylor Sheridan, Cinematography - Sir Roger Deakins, Editor - Joe Walker, Music - Jóhann Jóhannsson (R.I.P) and of course led by Director Denis Villeneuve.
Great reaction. “Hell or High Water” and “Wind River” same writer and he directed them. The three films made up his neo western trilogy (though they are unrelated). I’d argue they are even better. Should check them out.
16:24 Yes, I feel you. This film is intense and very good. But if you are gonna work in THIS world, you have to be like Scully in the X-Files, performing an autopsy ;) Or else, you don't make the cut.
Los gringos se asustan con lo que está fuera de su realidad... Welcome to our world!!! I'm from Juárez, and now i live in Monterrey... This is the mexican life.
I remember me and my brothers going to eat at some restaurants in Juarez in the late 70s , pretty fun back then, wouldn’t venture over there now , thanks
@@Diegesis btw, Wind River 2017 is just as good as SICARIO 2015, ooo, you know what else have a powerful ending? Children of Men 2006, with the children laughing and playing right before the end credit
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Not to get overtly political, but given the horrors you see in this film, if this doesn't make you understand the reasoning for "the wall", not much more can...though the things that will can't be seen on youtube. Yo promiso. This is just a drop in the ocean-sized bucket of blood that is south of the border.
So. Watch Incendies by the same director. It is a perfect movie.
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Director Denis Villeneuve told Jóhannsson that he wanted “music that the audience will not hear, but that the audience will feel like a threat coming under their feet, like Jaws.” The soundtrack gets more discordant the closer to danger the characters get.
I saw this in the cinema and my hands had cuts from where my fingernails had penetrated the skin, and my shoulders were aching from the tension. One of the best thrillers ever made.
The soundtrack is called the beast. The drums is the heart beat, and the other instrument are the lungs
*I can't just write 'not Jaws'... do pretend writing!*
"...are you pretending to write?"
is that a guy who did "Prisoners"?
RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson. He was such a good composer.
Benecio Del Toro's acting in this movie and the sequel is on another level. He is such a badass.
He really is. In Fear and Loathing he was great, Usual suspects, too. Even in his role in the newer Star Wars.
And I love the way he says "Welcome to Juarez."
Yeah Benecio steals the show.
The sequel sucked are u serious?
@@freshoftheoven965 it wasnt as good as the first but compared to a lot of shit these days it was good. Besides I was talking about Benecio's performance, which was great in both no matter about the rest.
You know I never noticed that she never finishes any of the cigarettes. Kind of a metaphor for what she's doing in the movie. Wants to be involved in this secret squirrel stuff to really go get the bad guys, doesn't want to accept all the baggage that comes with that. Lights a cigarette but never finishes it.
I like that you pointed this out, never thought about that until now.
As a smoker i noticed the cigarettes weren't lit and the actor wasn't smoking. It's silly but it looks very unnatural seeing non smokers smoking.
@@dildodickings2668 Yeah lol, little reminders on screen here and there to show it is just acting a scene. Not every actor agrees to smoking
there are herb cigarettes which have nothing to do with tobacco, i am a bit surprised Emily Blunt rejected them
That’s what I thought, she volunteered, and she’s not a civilian, but somehow she was horrified at extreme measures for extreme situations. Maybe she should’ve been a second grade teacher.
This movie is a masterclass in building tension. The score is just fantastic.
For real. The stuck in traffic scene… SHEEESH
“Ah you’re asking me how a watch works… for now just an eye on the time”
That fucking Line is GOLD!! The writing in this movie is top Tier.
Totally agree. I was saying that during the live stream
@Move_I_Got_This I have to ask: how did you feel about the sequel. It was a letdown for me but it still held its own just not in the Sicario World.
Taylor sheridan is the writer. Most of his stuff is awesome. My favorite is 1883
@@Bhint320610 It was a letdown for me too. It was a bit illogical for me how they went about certain things.
The sequel was not Directed by Denis...yes it wasn't as good as this one. But I watched it because of Benicio.
Gotta say one of my favorite lines in the movie are at the dinner table scene.
"Every night you have families killed, and yet, here you dine."
"Go ahead and finish your meal."
I never connected the two, that's some damn good writing.
@@carstereobandits Is he implying that he should finish his meal like any other where he had families die, except this family will be his own?
@@lockekappa500 That's my assumption.
Benecio completely ruined the family dinner
@@lockekappa500 He impies 2 things here, the druglord will have his dinner with his family and die just like all other families he killed. Also a religious reference to the last supper (final meal before they all die) as the druglord is religious (most cartel bosses and members are very religious ironically).
Denis Villeneuve in the director's chair, my man Roger Deakins behind the camera and Johann Johannson (RIP) with the score... Such an amazing team.
Possibly in my top 5. So good. Roger Deakins is a fantastic cinematographer.
I appreciate the cinematography more and more every time I watch it
24:00 the scene of their silhouettes descending into darkness against the last light of sunset is probably one of the top 3 best of Roger Deakins' amazing career as a cinematographer. I spectacular shot in a film packed with spectacular shots.
the tighter shots in the final "stand off" from the balcony, Alejandro framed in a bright sky - his soul is clear & he is at peace with who he is and what he does, where as Kate is framed in the darkness of her balcony, she's forever tainted by these events and they will haunt her forever.
Nice catch. Wonder if they were able to film that entire scene from the table and outside in the same day.
Denis Villeneuve is one of the best directors on the planet.
Every movie of his is a masterclass. I personally put him above Nolan. The BEST current director on the planet
@@thecompanioncube4211 Nolan looks like a hack high school film director compared to Villeneuve
Making Prisoners, Sicario, Arrival, and Blade Runner 2049 one after the other is just amazing. He don't miss.
@@ADifferentVibe Dont forget the rebooted Dune movie too, another masterpiece of an adaptation.
This movie does a good job of making you feel tense and anxious the whole time you are watching it. The music is a big part of it. I also think all the kind of "B role" landscape shots make it feel slightly like a documentary which makes everything feel a little more real.
Please watch the other Taylor Sheridan western movies, "Wind River" and "Hell or High Water". They are some of the best movies to come out in the last decade in my opinion, and have received little attention for how good they are.
Wind River was brilliant. I tried watching Hell or High Water but I keep falling asleep lol
Wind River is an absolute masterpiece
@@Iladimah Yeah not your fault you don't have good taste.
Those two and Sicario make up Taylor Sheridan’s modern frontier trilogy.
Agree
This was one of Denis Vileneuve's best works as director. Ben Del Toro plays the wolf in this story and he was created by the cartel leader and he embraces that darkness without a single doubt and he would use any means he has to get his target and he did just that and Emily Blunt played her character to perfection and that is why she is one of the few actresses who can deliver a great performance in anything she plays and she has the heart to do it.
Sicario is one of my top 10 films and the truly terrifying thing is that this is the war on drugs in a nutshell and why it is scary what the cartel does to their foes and those who get in their way and why they need to be stopped as well. Also the ending when the wolf gives her an out and the gun he threatened her with had no bullets in the clip and she wanted to do it. But he knew that she wouldn't do it due to her integrity and that she would be doing him a favor as well. But like the cigarette she never finishes it.
Sicario was a masterclass. But the sequel fell short and didn't have the same level as the first one.
Sicario is one of my favorite movies of all time. Del Toro, Borlin and Blunt are all masterful in their acting. The score definitely gave you that impending doom feeling.
This is the first movie from Denis Villeneuve that I saw and it got me entirely hooked. He is a master
Sicario and the sequel really hold you by the throat and don't let go
Hard enough to keep you in place, but light enough to keep you conscious so you watch everything unfold
One of my favorite scenes is the very end where Kate points her weapon at Alejandro and he half turns…then he turns all the way to face her. Inviting her to shoot.
And he knows she won't, thus proving him right about her not being cut out for that kind of work
I feel like this movie and Day of the Soldado are so under the radar, and that's such a shame. I don't know many people who even know about this movie, which sucks because both movies are two of the most incredible, beautifully written and executed pieces of cinema I've personally ever seen.
You want really under the radar? Check out Elite Squad (2007).
The soundtrack is a supporting character in this film.
It's quite a movie, the way it was built and as you said, the shots, the music, it's all part of the experience. There's not a whole lot of movies like this in terms of style but all of the movies from Denis Villeneuve that I've watched, they all have this element, some even have a more indy movie feel to them but that little something else is always there. A great reaction, I'm glad you were all for it. I don't know if you intend to watch the second movie, it's obviously not the same but I feel it's worth a watch. Thanks so much for this reaction!
Fun Fact: Josh Brolin play two Marvel characters: Cable & Thanos
Benicio Del Toro only plays one.
@@Diegesis and they play in the same movie - Infinity War :)
Amazing movie on so many levels. Shout out to Taylor Sheridan. Guy has written some bangin movies and TV.
11:00 to 11:15 is as legitimate of a reaction I’ve ever seen! Subscribed.
Love how you allow the movie to direct you emotionally!
Sicario is a masterpiece, it's one of those movies that I, and many other fans, pretend that it doesn't have a sequel, like with Pacific Rim.
The tension, the build up, the acting, the dialogue, etc., all top notch. One of my favorite thriller/crime movies of all time, like Seven (1995).
Most react channels annoy me cause they just watch movies and do not add anything. But you genuinely made me enjoy the movie as if I was watching it for the first time again.
Truly one of the most unappreciated movies of our time... I remember coming out of the theatre in just pure awe trying to process it all. The writing, directing and acting is all stellar.
This movie is in my top 20 all-time. As you stated so well, the interplay of tension surrounding the action and the slow musical build ups is forceful
and persistent. It's like being placed atop a high wire and being asked to stay there for a couple of hours. It also stars my fav actress Ms. Blunt and Benecio and
Josh are ruthless and necessary as she butts heads with them. What a movie.
This film is really good at exploring the reality of good and evil, and how nothing is necessarily black and white. “ do you really want to make a difference or would you like to pretend like you’re making a difference” - A Matter of film ( video essay on sicario)
Denis Villeneuve is a god damn MASTER of movie making.
When I was in Iraq we had incidents like that bridge scene almost everyday. There were militia that would purposely follow us and watch our every move, sometimes they would take pot shots at us when we weren’t paying attention or leave fake IEDs in plain sight just to get us to leave the vehicle and investigate.
Incendies next please! Villenueve is brilliant.
I was born in El Paso. We crossed the Rio Grande many time on shopping trips when I was a kid in the late '60s to early '70s. My last trip there was in 73. The entire area has changed so much since those days.
Been several years since I first saw this. Had to rewatch it myself before watching this reaction. Absolutely phenomenal still.
Shockingly good
Every shot told a story of what was about to happen and makes the audience put the peices togethe. Like the entry to Juarez was empty but there was traffic on the way out
What a movie! That dark menacing soundtrack summed up the movie in your ears.
Benecio Del Toro was born for this movie, he excelled in his role, no other actor could have done it better.
Emily Blunt & Josh Brolin were brilliant to.
It's a movie that flew under the (tunnels) radar.
Wind River
You missed an important point in the scene with the family at the dinner table. After the drug lord mentioned the assassin's wife, the assassin added that it was his daughter killed also. You see the drug lord's wife gasps and cringes. I believe that at that moment, she knows that it may not just be only her husband who may be killed.
One of my favorite films. Great writing & execution on many levels...the cinematography (as you mentioned), acting, constant tension, & superb ominous soundtrack are such big standouts.
#1 The Beast by Jóhann Jóhannsson is masterful music.
#2 Wind River, Sicario 1 & 2, Hell Or High Water, 1883.. certified bangers. Taylor Sheridan, king of modern day westerns.
Dennis Villeneuve is certified genius. What a movie this is
Denis Villeneuve should make all of the films.
Another really great film on this level is Steven Soderbergh's Traffic - again with Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones and Don Cheadle. Great film about drug traffic from four colliding story perspectives.
one of the patrons at the end was named “war crimes” 😭😂
Great job of picking up the pieces. One of my favorite Directors
The soundtrack to this film is perfect!
You've definitely gotta watch Wind River too. Fantastic film, written and directed by the writer of Sicario.
I found the ending hilarious. Cause for a government agency that does a lot of cloak and dagger of epic proportions, there's no way they can get around an actual signature and they're not concerned she'll run to some Inspector General.
The best cast ever assembled
There can never be another Kubrick, but Villeneuve is making a solid case for revision. I've seen everything he's made, including the Canadian films and his vision and approach are impeccable. Gorgeous design and cinematography, scores...every detail of his films feels considered.
And he's got years to go.
Hup!
Arianna is so smart and yet her emotions are so available, just and amazing reactor.
Would so much like to see her watch real top-flight cinema.
This was super refreshing when it dropped. Showed how deep the "war on drugs" is and how much damage it has done to the world and the people that live in it.
glad youre watching this🤙🏿 much love from texas
They asked her in depth questions to find weak points. They didn’t have want to throw her in the loop of going after the Cartel with her having vulnerabilities.
I like how the video ends abruptly there. Nice choice
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Thanks, it just felt "right"
As a Mexican American, you can't imagine the cartels do to people who disrespect them and that's why every Mexican in US and Mexico are quiet to talking about it
Denis, Roger Deakins, Taylor Sheridan (writer), and Jóhann Jóhannsson (composer) are a premium filmmaking team, hands down. Add in a stellar cast, this movie is nearly perfect. The fact it didn't win ANY Oscars is another travesty.
I always love the first scene they just hit us harder and harder with miss shot of shotgun to bodies in the wall and Boom Explosive out of nowhere in first 10 min "chef kiss" to this opening scene
Benicio del Toro is one of the finest actors of the last fifty years, another outstanding performance in "Traffic" a must watch.
Diegesis: the finest crime drama movie ever made: "The French Connection", based on a true story, nominated for 30 movie industry awards, winning 18 awards, including Academy Awards for Best Picture (1972), Best Director (William Friedkin), Best Actor (Gene Hackman), The Motion Picture Editors Guild (2012) - the tenth best edited film of all time, and so on, buy this movie, steal it, rent it, but watch it.
I mean... watch every Denis Villeneuve movie. Probably my favorite current director making movies.
Arianna, Chad, Maple if you want to watch how good this movie is or how authentic it is, then either watch Green Berets reaction to this or even BRCC veteran's react to this they do a good job and you'll learn a bit also, especially the Green Berets as Sean one of the Green Berets actually has done the something like the start of the movie.
Villnueve is the 21st Century master of cinematography
One of the greatest movies this is truly a movie that stands out from the rest. After watching these movies and the punisher series my thinking you have to become a monster to fight the other monsters
One of my favorite movies of all time.
The Agent with the glasses is modeled after one of the original members of Delta Force, the Unit assisting Graver in the deception operation. SGM Mike Vining.
Delta operates in the shadow world between covert military operations and deep black intelligence activities. The scene when they move into the tunnels and descend into the darkness is emblematic of that. Notice the stark horizon line as they disappear into the black, like they are submerging under the ocean.
This movie is a masterpiece
I love the observation that she never finished a ciggerate 😂 love this movie and your reactions are the best ❤
6:35- Yes girl. Did you see how he wakes up out of his sleep? You know he's not a Kindergarten Teacher.
The sound in this film is quietly amazing whether it's just the ambient sound or that haunting incidental music and strangely, I noticed it even more, the second time I watched it.
Also, she must be freaking out and asking WTF they're doing when she sees that Delta Force are attached - you'd know instantly that whatever they're doing is going to be sketchy as fuck. And as always, Del Toro with another acting masterclass.
He wanted the boss to feel how it felt for him having his family killed, before he killed him.
Looking back at her at the end, her aiming at him, his calmness would've welcomed it - the end of his own pain/heartbreak...but of course she couldn't be like him.
the bodies hanging from the bridge is a real thing that happened back during the war for Juarez. IIRC 14 bodies hung from the bridge as victims of the Sinaloa Cartel as examples of what happens to those who get in the way.
One of my all times favourites. The level of tension as you found out is something else - loved your reaction. Hoping there is a third🤞
In the beginning the hero is well lit and bright white. In the end she is grey and harshly lit.
I loved the part at the end of the movie when Benicio Del Toro breaks the fourth wall, looks directly at viewer and says: "Maybe I am. Maybe I am Sicario"
I can't wait till you start directing movies, even though they'll be low budget
Just this line alone could have completely changed this movie forever
The lighting in this film is spectacular
This is a phenomenal movie and Del Toro character is one of the most badass ever! Although I keep thinking back to the quote Captain Price says in Modern Warfare, "we get our hands dirty so the rest of the world stays clean." Emily Blunt's character is someone who I see who wants to take the gloves off in order to take down these men but can't because of the line she draws.
Yeah that is just what it looks like during the Monsoon
If you notice...when Deltoro is interrogating the guy the floor is dry, the water jug is sealed...but hes choking on something. Its highly likely Del Toro is doing you know what to the man. Thats the level of GET BACK his character is going for.
I believe that Tayler Sheridan wrote this movie. Not sure if you've watched Yellowstone but Yellowstone for Drama and suspense is very similar. You might want to check that show out
This movie is sooo good.
The tension & visuals are just amazing
the fucked up hindsight is realizing we could get a audio glimpse into what Alejandro was having a nightmare about.
Im happy you kept the part explains why alejandro is like that
This movie is a masterpiece!
I remember watching that first scene and just thinking how evil that whole scenario was. The wall of bodies, and then the booby trapped shed. I grew up on the AZ border and things have changed so so much over the years. More and more people suffer on both sides of the border. This movie, cast, and director are all excellent!
no "weapons free" means shoot anything that moves around u that u dont identify as a friendly entity regardless of if theyre armed or not
A year too late to your reaction but yes you're right. They didn't take the ex-army lawyer guy but Kate because she was the easy target. They both have the same outstanding morals but it's easier for the 'DOD advisors' to break Kate. In the end scene, she points her gun at Alejandro but doesn't shoot. Her morals didn't come in her way, it was him. He had asked her never to point a gun at him and he is the alpha wolf. Her putting the gun down symbolises her being broken.
If you thought the casting was great.
Here are some of the crew : Writer - Taylor Sheridan, Cinematography - Sir Roger Deakins, Editor - Joe Walker, Music - Jóhann Jóhannsson (R.I.P) and of course led by Director Denis Villeneuve.
yeah the movie basically was an Olympic mvp team
Great reaction. “Hell or High Water” and “Wind River” same writer and he directed them. The three films made up his neo western trilogy (though they are unrelated). I’d argue they are even better. Should check them out.
Pretty sky shots ... Denis V. :)
Bladerunner 2049 ... Dune ... Etc.
Top 5 movies for sure!!!
16:24 Yes, I feel you. This film is intense and very good. But if you are gonna work in THIS world, you have to be like Scully in the X-Files, performing an autopsy ;) Or else, you don't make the cut.
One of my favorite movies ever…such a masterpiece
Los gringos se asustan con lo que está fuera de su realidad...
Welcome to our world!!! I'm from Juárez, and now i live in Monterrey... This is the mexican life.
I thought your eyebrows are on point
“That’s what we’re dealing with” 😢
Medelin, not like in "work for Medelin", it is his nickname "Ghost of Medelin"
I remember me and my brothers going to eat at some restaurants in Juarez in the late 70s , pretty fun back then, wouldn’t venture over there now , thanks
27:17 this is the moment when you realize Kate is the villain in this film.
This is why secure borders are a must. This movie is very much real. Not all of it but a huge part of it
oh yeah, Arianna should react to City of God (2002)
Yes! That would be amazing!
I'd like to. it's an awesome movie
@@Diegesis but really hard to watch, haunting.
@@Diegesis btw, Wind River 2017 is just as good as SICARIO 2015, ooo, you know what else have a powerful ending? Children of Men
2006, with the children laughing and playing right before the end credit