In Spanish, "sicario" means "hitman." In film terms, Sicario means intense, gripping or tension-packed.
Set to a jittery score by Jóhan Jóhannsson (by comparison, Steven Price's work on Gravity sounds upbeat), Denis Villeneuve stages one gut-wrenching, nail-biting scene after another with devastating precision.
Roger Deakins additionally paints a land of brooding twilight skies and unforgiving deserts, gorgeously crepuscular, aerial shots of a white-knuckle border crossing contrast with a breathless chase through drug tunnels - a deliberate visual metaphor.
While Del…
