It has been over a decade since Dune trilogy director Denis Villeneuve helmed his epic action thriller Sicario, alongside Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins. Penned by Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan as the first movie in his American Frontier Trilogy, alongside Hell or High Water and Wind River, this film follows FBI agents tasked with taking down a powerful Mexican drug cartel. Sicario’s all-star cast includes Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal and Daniel Kaluuya. The synopsis reads: “FBI special agents Kate Macer and Reggie Wayne lead a raid on a drug cartel safe house in Chandler, Arizona, where two police officers are killed. Subsequently recruited to a joint task force overseen by CIA officer Matt Graver and a secretive ex-prosecutor Alejandro Gillick to flush out and apprehend a cartel drug lord, Kate is soon out of her depth in the murky world of a lawless borderland.”
Sicario has 91 per cent positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and was nominated for three Oscars. A sequel called Sicario: Day of the Soldado followed in 2018 and a third movie called Sicario: Capos is in development. Sicario is on BBC One tonight at 10:40pm and will be streaming on BBC iPlayer for a limited time afterwards. Meanwhile, its first sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, is on BBC One at the same time tomorrow evening.
