Sicario

Yeah I guess you are right. Love the movie. Her character just annoys me.

After watching the movie, her character wasn’t memorable enough to complain about it for me.

I understood the movie just fine. She is needed on the mission because they need her agency on that mission. Her questioning things is good for the plot I guess but its annoying. They are trying to get Colombia to take back the drug trade so it is easier and cleaner to deal with.

She’s also fighting to keep her own moral code which is at odds with people who she thought she was philosophically and ethically aligned.

She’s fighting to keep her soul, in a sense, and they take it from her.

Villeneuve is just an awesome filmaker. I watched Enemy (2013, Jake Gyllenhaal) last week and loved it. Of course then there's Prisoners, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Dune.

In his hands, there is pretty much zero chance that Dune Part Two won't be fantastic. It's hard to say that about just about any other modern director.

Script originally was for a man

Disagree. Sicario works because, among other reasons, it forces us to ask which way we think is best to confront such ruthless brutality. It's a psychological thriller (vs Soldado, which while still very good, is straight thriller; nobody in Soldado bothers to ask "what the frick are we doing?" like Kate in Sicario).

And whose orders was she supposed to take? "I'm not authorized to take orders from Alejandro" makes it pretty clear that she respects the chain of command. She has a code and she's covering her own arse as best she can. Hard to do against Delta Force operators and CIA spooks who only reveal at the last minute that her only use was to legitimize the operation.

And in the hands of a lesser actor, it could've fallen flat. But Emily Blunt is a pretty convincing hardass. She strikes the perfect balance between someone who's very competent at her job and someone who's still highly vulnerable being so far down the rabbit hole.

10/10 movie for me at any rate. Villenueve, Johannsson, Deakins, Sheridan--doesn't get much better than that.

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That was such a good movie. And they really dropped the ball with the second one

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I never thought there needed to be a sequel, and didn’t want one. It was never that kind of movie. That said, I was surprised by how much I actually enjoyed the sequel, and felt like it was a decent successor. Perhaps it was because my expectations were so low, and I was expecting to hate it.

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She's the antagonist.

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wut

I don't know who needs to hear this, but I'll make it clear: Josh Brolin, Alejandro, et al are not the good guys