re: Sicario

MASSIVE frickING SPOILERS TO ANSWER PATRICK BATEMAN'S QUESTION:

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I mean, they had him in Mexico before, no problem. Also had assistance of Mexican police. . . And del Toro just happened, coincidentally, to go down a side tunnel, find a police car, then pursue the target who happened to be nearby and leaving his home at the same time

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This was all explained in the movie. The tunnel mission was a ruse with a good excuse for a domestic agency (the FBI) to be involved: a drug sting. In reality, they found out a time when a shipment was leaving Mexico and set up the sting so that Del Toro could capture and use the police mule to drive into Mexico unmolested, pull the lieutenant who was running shite in the US over (they had been tracking him via satellite since he was recalled to Mexico as a result of their previous actions), and use the lieutenant as a means of ingress into the druglord compound.

Meanwhile, the FBI was supposed to go with the Delta team and be a part of the tunnel operation, but Blunts character noticed del Toro going off on his own.

There was no coincidence involved at all. That was the whole point of the movie.




SPOILERS ABOVE