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Thanks for the even-handed review. This was one I was curious about. Couldn’t quite figure out the marketing of it.

Thanks! And yes, I think the marketing did this movie a disservice. People looking for a scary movie will likely be let down.

This absolutely bites. I was completely taken to believe that this was a haunted house movie and not a love story. I cannot tell you how disappointed I am about this info. It was advertised as a horror movie released during the Halloween season and now… well, crap.

SICARIO is the scariest (and most suspenseful) movie I’ve seen this year — because the brutal violence it depicts is really happening.

No doubt George, we thought the same thing. Although, I still think that film’s ending was a bit of misstep and took focus away from the character that it should have stuck with.

I was also surprised when SIRACIO’s focus shifted to another character (I won’t say which one, for those who haven’t seen the movie) but I accepted it. The movie is saying that good people get sidelined and marginalized, and they don’t always triumph. There’s no feel-good ending here.

I was also impressed that Emily Blunt’s character was NOT able to defeat bigger, stronger, well-trained men in hand-to-hand combat. We don’t see this sort of realism much in movies; the trend now is to depict all female protagonists as butt-kicking action heroes. Blunt’s character may be an FBI agent, but she’s not Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Elektra or the Black Widow — that is, she’s not a superhero.