Sicario

FBI agent Kate Macer leads a raid in Arizona and finds dozens of bodies hidden in the walls of a cartel safe house. She joins a task force led by CIA officer Matt Graver and the mysterious Alejandro. The mission is to capture a cartel lieutenant, but Kate sees the rules change at the border. Between Ciudad Juárez, a tunnel near Nogales and the kingpin's estate, she realizes the real goal is something else and nobody told her. Every step makes the line between the law and the mission harder to see.

1. ReferenceFirst part of a trilogy

   Taylor Sheridan's script opens a neo-western trilogy about crime on the modern American frontier. The other two films are Hell or High Water and Wind River.

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2. CameoDeakins and Jóhannsson

   Cinematographer Roger Deakins was hired in May 2014. The score is by Jóhann Jóhannsson, his second collaboration with Denis Villeneuve after Prisoners.

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3. ReferenceThe city asked for a boycott

   Before release, the mayor of Ciudad Juárez, Enrique Serrano Escobar, urged residents to boycott the film. He said the violence shown was accurate only up to about 2010 and the city had since changed.

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