Sicario

He was right the first time. Del Toro gets more ass than a toilet seat :cmad:
 
I hope Blunt gets more recognition as an actress.

Del Toro has always been a great caliber actor, he seemed to cool off in recent years, but he recently worked with PTA and his part in this seems to be very good.
 
Yeah i've heard good thing's too but that September release date just makes me doubt that the Academy voters will still have the movie in mind when we get to the November and December released movies. Unless it's an outstanding movie.

Anyhoo first pic released

http://collider.com/sicario-picture-benicio-del-toro-takes-aim-in-denis-villeneuve-actioner/

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I'm liking the poster not so much the font and I dig the tag line.

A trailer can't be far off.
 
Nice one man.

While I don't expect it to be Oscars contender not with that release date unfortunately but I'm hearing Benico Del Toro was great in the film and he could go Best Supporting.
 
First clip mixed in with cast interviews. We have a clip but no offical trailer yet. :funny:

[YT]watch?v=RQvbyv-I7vs[/YT]
 
Why would they split the clip like that?! Such an odd decision. Looking forward to it though and it's only four months until release.

A few more reviews.

Collider

Mashable

Screen Daily
 
It ain't much but I found another short clip. Starts around 5:55 mark.

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Variety:

In a terrific performance that recalls the steely ferocity of Jodie Foster in “The Silence of the Lambs” and Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty,” Emily Blunt stars here as Kate Macer, an FBI field agent who has been forced to don a Teflon exterior in order to rise through the Bureau’s male-dominated ranks...Navigating the crossfire, Blunt is mesmerizing to watch, her intense blue eyes ablaze with intelligence as she tries to sort out the facts of the case from its attendant fictions, and whether Graver and Alejandro’s endgame justifies its ethically dubious means.

http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/sicario-film-review-cannes-1201494744/

The Hollywood Reporter:

Sicario offers Blunt’s character nothing in the way of military challenges that can quite rival what the actress took on last year in Edge of Tomorrow. Instead, she provides a sharply penetrating reading of a smart, resilient young woman whose desire to help out is no match for the deceptions and frustrating barriers placed in her way. Seeing how much she has to contribute — to the missions at hand, to the country, to a personal relationship — it’s sad bordering on tragic to think that she could end up as just another potential victim of an unending war that, in one way or another, poisons everyone it touches. Blunt’s performance is first-rate.

Unlike Blunt’s more dimensional Kate, the male characters are so prevented from showing their true selves by the professional roles they have taken on that they must remain a bit opaque.But from a behavioral p.o.v., the cast is outstanding.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/sicario-cannes-review-796598

The Playlist/Indiewire:

But performance-wise, the film owes its greatest debt of gratitude to Emily Blunt. While Kate Mercer is, as mentioned, slightly marginalized toward the end of the film, Blunt makes the absolute most of what she is given, which is often wordless and must be communicated through eyes, physicality and body language. There is an inherent intelligence to the actress that gives her characters, even in repose, an inner life that no screenwriter could have written.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...unt-josh-brolin-and-benicio-del-toro-20150519


Peter Bradshaw, The Gardian:

Emily Blunt looks a little fancifully cast, at first, as the FBI field agent Kate Macy. But Blunt’s performance has an edge of steel. She brings off a mix of confidence, bewilderment and vulnerability, which functions very well against the alpha male characters higher up the chain of command. Their chemistry with her is a weird mix of flirtatious banter and almost fatherly, melancholy concern.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/19/sicario-review-emily-blunt-thriller

Screen Daily:


The film’s biggest surprise is the main female character, played by Emily Blunt, who defies expectations. Lulled by Blunt’s star power and sympathetic, stripped-down performance, audiences will feel secure in her upright FBI agent, thinking they know her arc; principled, uncomprehending, she’s in this battle over her head. It’s a tough role for Blunt.

Kate seems, at times, to be entirely symbolic, at others, entirely human. Villeneuve and Blunt make some interesting points with Kate’s character. Even at the onset, when she leads the Arizona kidnap response team, Blunt is not the beefed-up film cliché which has been the standard portrayal of a female warrior since Terminator 2: Judgement Day. She is deliberately presented as physically lesser, more vulnerable, than the men in the room, but morally tougher. Blunt plays the divorced Kate with a quiet resolution, a solid performance which should help lift the British actress into more serious roles.

http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/sicario-review/5087432.article

Mike D'Angelo/The Dissolve:

Here, our surrogate is Kate Macy (Emily Blunt, confirming herself yet again to be the most casually outstanding and remarkably versatile actor of her generation), an FBI agent who’s suddenly drafted onto a team of operatives who are working to topple the Mexican drug cartels... Kate is tough, strong, intelligent, principled, and completely powerless. Her eventual role in what goes down, as planned from the outset, amounts to being a notary public. Passive protagonists are almost always a bad idea, but Kate’s involuntary passivity, as boldly conceived by actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, has a potent strategic purpose, and it’s counterbalanced by Blunt’s steely intensity and by Villeneuve’s deft tightening of the screws as Kate is repeatedly thrust into uncertain chaos.

http://thedissolve.com/features/postcards-from-cannes/1034-day-6-reversals-of-fortune/

IGN:

Putting Blunt front and central is Sicario’s unique selling point, distinguishing it from the numerous American movies dabbling in the drug trade and/or corrupt law enforcement, from Traffic to Syriana
Leigh Singer Says to Training Day to every other gangster film around. Macer is a consummate pro, first seen leading a bust on a home in a small Arizona town that reveals the shocking, gruesome discovery of 42 decaying corpses hidden in the walls. There’s an element of Jodie Foster’s Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs here, or Jessica Chastain’s Maya in Zero Dark Thirty, as Kate struggles to navigate and survive a tough, macho world, while remaining true to herself. Blunt does good work, never playing down Kate’s vulnerability and disorientation and Villeneuve initiates us into this cruel world through her eyes. One fine sequence has Kate’s longing for intimacy and simply getting laid only get her into more trouble, and Blunt bravely nails the anguish of realizing how her femininity is just another lever to be exploited.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/05/19/sicario-review

ICS Film:

The true stand-out here, however, is Emily Blunt as a woman in way over her head. She is a tough cookie when push comes to shove, but vulnerable enough to let the spiralling situation get to her, and Blunt portrays this gradual change in character very well, to the point where Kate is broken at the end of the film. Her character is a somewhat passive one, but that is mainly because she is supposed to be the stand-in for the viewer.

http://icsfilm.org/features/cannes-2015-sicario-denis-villeneuve/

Mashable:

Emily Blunt is tremendously sympathetic. She's assertive and sharp and able to express complex emotions with a wordless expression. It's a terrific performance and one, I think, that will resonate into that other hellscape of lawlessness, awards season.

http://mashable.com/2015/05/19/cann...Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner


Vanity Fair:

Though she deserves better, Blunt does fine work, as she always does. She plays Kate with a mix of disgust and curiosity—she's repulsed by these blunt-force methods, but also undeniably intrigued by the results they yield. Blunt smartly registers this duality with small changes in tone and expression. She manages a subtle performance in a film where there is precious little subtlety.

Villeneuve is an interesting director, and Sicario is certainly worthy of some praise. Villeneuve chose good people to work with—among them Blunt, Deakins, and Jóhann Jóhannsson....


http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/sicario-cannes-review

HitFix:

The film begins during an FBI operation in Phoenix, Arizona where veteran agent Kate Macy (a superb Emily Blunt) is leading a SWAT team to take down a hostage situation.

“Sicario” starts and ends with Blunt’s impassioned performance who is spectacular in her final scene..


http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention...-the-drug-war-we-cant-win#lkPz5Jmlxu5u1ufo.99

Kerrie Mitchell, Yahoo

Blunt is so good here — tough, smart, and competent, but vulnerable too...

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/cannes...e-119360899967.html?soc_src=unv-sh&soc_trk=tw


Caimanediciones.es :

Es evidente que Denis Villeneuve no es un gran cineasta y que la propuesta podría parecer una dura película de acción. Emily Blunt consigue transfigurarla en otra cosa.

It's evident that Denis Villeneuve is not a great filmmaker, his work could look just like another action film. Emily Blunt elevates it to something else.

https://www.caimanediciones.es/cannes-2015-en-tiempo-real-la-opinion-de-la-critica/

Twitchfilm:

Blunt in particular is extremely effective, coming across as authentically powerful and vulnerable in equal measure.

http://twitchfilm.com/2015/05/canne...fully-executed-hitman-film.html#ixzz3alKWUSI6

Littlewhitelies:

Emily Blunt comes to the rescue in this unexpected misfire from director Denis Villeneuve.

It's here – during a nail-bitingly tense in-and-out recon mission – that FBI field agent Kate Macer (a career-best Emily Blunt) gets a harsh lesson in the realities of American militarism.

Blunt is exceptional here, exercising the trigger finger she first itched in Looper and later Edge of Tomorrow while effortlessly conveying the kind of emotionally exhausting internal conflict that saw Jessica Chastain bag herself an Oscar nomination for Kathryn Bigelow's superior procedural, Zero Dark Thirty.


http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/features/articles/sicario-cannes-review-29948

hayesatthemovies.com :

Emily Blunt is the heart of the story; the outsider drawn into a world that she doesn’t understand. It is through her eyes that the audience learns, this used to make sure that we are on the morally righteous Macy’s side for the entire film. Blunt is strong and engaging in the role, and sets the pace for the rest of the cast.

http://hayesatthemovies.com/2015/05/20/cannes-review-sicario/

heyuguys.com:

..Nevertheless, Blunt more than stands her ground against the two behemoths Del Toro and Brolin, who are both outstanding.

http://www.heyuguys.com/sicario-review/

liveforfilms.com

..with only Emily Blunt’s lead reliant on a bit more development. Blunt may not have as much to work with – as say Benicio Del Toro – but she leads the film as if she’s an aged pro.

http://www.liveforfilms.com/2015/05/20/festival-de-cannes-2015-review-sicario/

The List:

Emily Blunt impresses in this tense thriller from Denis Villeneuve.

After expertly handling a tough case, FBI agent Kate Macy (Blunt) is placed with a CIA task force fighting a dirty war against a Mexican drugs cartel. Blunt is superb as the dogged, combative, increasingly troubled Macy;

https://film.list.co.uk/article/71041-sicario/

Screendaily.com

Blunt makes an undeniable case here for bigger, more serious roles going forward in her career; she’s absolutely mesmerising as the principled Kate, in over her head in a land of no mercy.

http://m.screendaily.com/5088051.article

pajiba.com


When the dust settles, we discover the characters themselves - and Emily Blunt’s unforced, naturalistic performance imposes Kate as a readily believable protagonist.

http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/...ick.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Independent Cinema Office

Blunt is extremely good – the first time you see her delicate, fine-boned face you wonder if she can pull off a role as tough and quintessentially American as this, but she is both believable and sympathetic as agent Kate Macer. Pulled out of procedural ops into the ambiguous workings of the drugs war on a grand scale, surrounded by people whose propensity for violence and amorality is deeply troubling to her – embodying an American naivety, perhaps – she gradually attains an understanding of her superiors' seemingly shifting allegiances.

http://www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/blog/cannes2015sarahr

First Showing:


Emily Blunt dominates the film as Kate Macer, an FBI agent with a tough exterior in a male dominated field.

Kate is our protagonist and she may start out as a rookie but by the final act things will be very different for her. That kind of character transition isn't easy to sell in a two-hour movie but Blunt is more than up to the challenge. She does more with a simple stare than most actors do with an entire performance, completely reflecting her character's tough edge.


http://www.firstshowing.net/2015/cannes-review-sicario-is-a-fascinating-commentary-on-violence/

Loose Lips:


The story is one we’ve seen before, perhaps well suited to a television drama. What makes Villeneuve’s take on the familiar cinematic, are the stylization and strong performances by heavy-hitters Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt.

http://loose-lips.com/index.php/2015/05/cannes-film-festival-sicario/

First Showing:


Emily Blunt dominates the film as Kate Macer, an FBI agent with a tough exterior in a male dominated field.

Kate is our protagonist and she may start out as a rookie but by the final act things will be very different for her. That kind of character transition isn't easy to sell in a two-hour movie but Blunt is more than up to the challenge. She does more with a simple stare than most actors do with an entire performance, completely reflecting her character's tough edge.


http://www.firstshowing.net/2015/cannes-review-sicario-is-a-fascinating-commentary-on-violence/

Loose Lips:


The story is one we’ve seen before, perhaps well suited to a television drama. What makes Villeneuve’s take on the familiar cinematic, are the stylization and strong performances by heavy-hitters Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt.

http://loose-lips.com/index.php/2015/05/cannes-film-festival-sicario/


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That's the million dollar question. It comes out in September so I'm guessing July.
 
Awesome poster. The trailer shouldn't be too far away.
 
So what exactly is the last name of her character?
 
Dr. Evil said:
Then why did some of the reviews refer to her character as Kate Macer?
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No idea man. The script I read had her down as "Macy".

Maybe they changed the surname during production but I don't know why they would.
 
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