Comment: I finally watched Sicario and one of the great aspects out of many excellent aspects in an overall great movie (80% of NCFOM wth Steve?) was the fact that Blunt was realistically a liability in hand to hand combat. Loved that her training in that area kind of worked but didn’t… like real life. Even if she had to kick open a locked door in the first action scene I get the feeling the director would have required a man to do it. I am willing to overlook the less than realistic bodies in internal wall cavities for the extra non-PC realism.
She’s also a whiny schoolmarm. So it’s not just the physical side it was the mental inflexibility and wrongheadedness in what was basically a war setting that was on the money with the story and direction. I watched it twice with the view to seeing if the black partner was likely corrupt, and yes, I agree with whoever it was on here who suggested that he was. Everything he did pointed to it. I thought it was classic that the director made the AA hire black guy subtly just happen to be as corrupt as Obama, Donna Brazile, Cheryl Mills and Loretta Lynch, while feigning concern… something of an Easter Egg.
While on the subject, the epic score made the movie. Usually overlooked, this was yet another case where the score was more than icing on the cake, it was an intrinsic part of the cake itself. (Like most cakes that are designed for icing, icing is not an optional component). The score provided the constant feeling of foreboding, of dread, and of descent into hell that was so well married to the scene where the US forces literally sunk into the darkness in the final mission.
* I got the impression that Blunt was an incompetent leader who had been AA’d to her position. Note that she was not really taking proper charge of the opening raid, and let a couple of careless cops get themselves blown up by an obvious potential booby trap. She was specifically brought into the CIA/DEA extradition operation because she would provide the legal cover, while being too weak and incompetent to screw it up.
As to her partner, he was kept out because the operators didn’t need a second affirmative action agent in the team for their purposes. I agree it was suspicious that after he was locked out he kept trying to find what they were up to and that maybe it was more than just trying to make sure she didn’t get hurt. The meeting in the bar with his old buddy also looked suspiciously like a setup to get information out of her.
Good movie but the best part of it, which was the tense extradition sequence, was unrealistic. Knowing Mexican attitudes towards the US, it is no more plausible that the government would let a bunch of heavily armed gringo commandos go convoying through their city and shooting it up, than that the US authorities would permit the mirror operation.
RE: Women in heels:
* They’re trying to attract the attention of certain men, but attract the attention of nearly all men. It truly seems to confound them that they’re noticed by not only the men they would like, but by the rest of them as well which disgusts them. I don’t think they fully appreciate how ridiculous it is to base a legal framework around this – when, for example, the woman dresses provocatively in the workplace to attract the attention of the high status male(s) but wants the government to punish everyone if the cubicle dork approaches her awkwardly.
