Sicario won us over with its gritty, edge of your seat look at special forces operating off the grid against the Mexican mafia. The introduction of the kidnapped daughter of a mafia boss into the sequel made character motivations confusing and opened major plot holes. The core story of black ops taking care of business is still intact and satisfying as ever. Would recommend a watch, but known that writers took some shortcuts to move the story along.

From 10 stars I deducted following stars for: * instigating hate and racism by creating evil stereotypes (and later, when the emotions are already created telling in a minor side-mark that the stereotype was false - clever move to wash the producer's hands in innocense) * misleading trailer purposely cutting out its xenophobic connotations * jumping around back and forth in the story with no clear script-line * unrealistic scenarios for the sake of justifying action * inconsistent character-development so I could not really relate to anyone * after having painted certain groups as enemies their deaths become numbers, justifying a massacre whilst the main characters with faces are saved just as the obligatory dog always is saved in each disaster movie * a total unbelievable twist of someone's fate * a dissatisfying "ending" which obviously is only designed to justify sequels for uncritical action-fans.

Everything was great in movie until last 10min...Thats why rating 6

I didn't watch part 1 of the franchise. So not sure where they are coming from. But I liked the vibe this movie gave me. I was a sense of thrill what got me hooked and I didn't look at my watch once what often happens when I er bored watching a movie. Josh Brolin is rapidly becoming one my top 10 fav actors. I like him, good acting. believable guy. Benicio Del Toro also an great actor. Good facial features and good acting. The storyline wasn't that thrilling for me, but the vibe is what I liked about it. Great music and nice scenes in between. Loved the action scenes too. They could have done better with the storyline, making it a bigger movie. It's a nice enjoyable movie, nothing more.