Love Sicario! Great movie...love Del Toro
Del Toro was great - he was one scary mofo! Great casting, great movie. Some of the scenes are so memorable. The incident in traffic waiting to cross the border was simple in so many ways, but really conveyed the tension of such an altercation and how the professionally trained soldiers used strategy and firepower to overwhelm their adversaries easily, but brutally. The long lead up was amazing.
Del Toro killing the family - holy crap. Completely believable given his character development.
Brolin is fantastic as this casual flip-flop wearing spook that will also casually and skillfully empty an automatic rifle into you without a second thought - and grin widely as Del Toro's devil does the even nastier jobs.
Blunt plays the patsy so well. A solid cop that they only slightly underestimated, but she completely overestimates what her moral stand is worth. She never gets that they're using her because of her impeccable track record, not in spite of it, until she has to choose between dying or signing the statement.
You knew early on Del Toro was scary...the way he woke up from the nightmare on the plane.
Another aspect that was interesting was the dirty Mexican cop. Dirty, cause he's in the drug trade, taking money, etc. But then they show him as a regular family man, good father, etc. Likely took the dirty money to help his family.
But he and his family paid a steep price..
