A third film, titled Sicario: Capos, is in development. Its sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, was released on June 29, 2018. It also earned BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Music. The film was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Editing at the 88th Academy Awards. Sicario received praise for its cast performances, action sequences, writing, direction, musical score and cinematography. It began a limited release in the United States on September 18, 2015, followed by a nationwide release on October 2, 2015. Sicario was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. ![]() The film follows a principled FBI Special Agent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug cartel. ![]() If this movie had been titles virtually anything else I may have given it a 4 or 5 out of 10, rather than a three, though the unnecessarily and intentionally sanitized PG13 vibe completely disrupts any potential the film may have had in the first place.Sicario ( Spanish for ' hitman' pronounced ) is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Taylor Sheridan and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. The problem is that not one of the main characters are in possession of a redeemable quality and their motivations are completely nonsensical, they are all essentially unknowingly pseudo intellectuals. Every character in this film is ball- kickingly annoying. There isn't anything new going on here, but it's produced in a professional manner and the action scenes are handled with extreme care.Īnd along comes the story, instead of our group of guys pulling bank jobs to fund adrenaline junkie lifestyles, the action men of 2015 are self aware crusaders, too cool for school, hipsters on a self imposed mission from God. The camera work, framing and editing leave everything on the proverbial field. The film exceeds expectations in the sense that this a slickly produced action film with a completely rad soundtrack. What had happened here is that the studio has produced a garden variety action movie and slapped a name on it purely for the sake of brand recognition. I am not inherently adverse to remakes and reboots, and I am not at all a purist, I am perfectly fine with rebooting material and straying from source material if it serves the story well. When I found out that Point Break was being remade I shuddered in fear, but I when I learned that Core was directing the film, I immediately changed my tune, as I hold Invincible in such high regard, as it truly is an under appreciated film for the ages. It is directed by Ericson Core, a good filmmaker who directed the 2006 Invincible, a film which is criminally underrated. Point Break is a bafflingly unsolicited remake of the 1991 cult classic of the same name. Being a member of a media group I caught an early screening at the Amc. This modern update boasts a handful of genuinely fantastic action sequences, yet they're not enough to warrant a recommendation in what is otherwise a limp and incoherent thriller.īeware people, this is an early review. The same can't be said for low-budget-Chris-Hemsworth hunk Luke Bracey though, who is so wooden as Johnny Utah he makes Keanu Reeves look like Daniel Day Lewis. ![]() Replacing the eternally cool Patrick Swayze was always going to be tough, however Edgar Ramirez does a solid job as charismatic eco-warrior Bohdi. Wimmer's dialogue attempts to be philosophical and Zen-like, but with clichéd stinkers like "the only law is gravity" and "everyone dies, it's just a matter of how", it's nothing short of unintentionally hilarious. Stemming from Kurt Wimmer's truly awful screenplay, every second not spent traversing a mountainside, soaring through the air or surfing a mammoth wave is cringe worthy and/or yawn inducing. ![]() Yet the impact of these daredevil stunts is wasted on a film that fails on almost every other level. Constructed with an alarming amount of real footage and physical stunt work, the numerous action set pieces are rather impressive a high octane wing-suit gliding scene and the tension-building rock climbing finale topping the list. A Gen Z update to Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 cult classic, this remake is essentially an episode of Fast and Furious in which the vehicular exploits have been replaced with an assortment of extreme sports sequences.
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