On a technical level, Denis Villeneuve’s cagey thriller is a mesmeric spectacle of near perfection. Taut with a laser precision and deafening focus, “Sicario” revolves around the work of a government task force, policing the war on drugs at the U.S./Mexico border and their reluctant new recruit Kate Macer (Emily Blunt). Suspicious from the start, Kate's fears grow more and more intense as she’s plunged into legally questionable waters that challenge her idealism to its very core. Left to question the black, white and grey area where law enforcement collides with the criminal element, she is forced to wrestle with the age old conundrum of whether the “end justifies the means”. Kate’s odyssey into the tangled web of police politics proves a harrowing ride that exacts more questions than it does answers. Enticing its audience to inquiry about what they witness as much as its protagonist does. As intense and immersive as “Sicario” can be, it finds trouble with a narrative that reve...