TMDB 7.6 2015 USA 121 min

Sicario

Directed by Denis Villeneuve

The border is just another line to cross.

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area.

Starring
Emily BluntBenicio del Toro
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Context

El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

Ioan Grillo

Grillo reported the war the film dramatises. Read it if you want to know how much is invented.

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