Love that final confrontation between Alejandro and Kate. It's not just him testing her to see if she'd pull the trigger, but also him not caring if she does because then he could join his wife and daughter. My favourite Villeneuve film.

I love how you know immediately that Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Donovan are CIA. Everyone else is super professional and they’re just chillin’ 😂

That moment when you realize the main character is Alejandro lol.

8:28 Maple: "Is this true?" Ed Calderon said that when he completed his police training in Mexico, the first task he was given was a call that said "Bring the bolt cutters," and he was excited because he thought it meant that they were going to cut off a lock to bust into a drug lab or something like that, but instead, they were cutting the chains off of some corpses that were hanging from a bridge. One of the veteran cops commented to Calderon that the cartel that did this was being merciful, and when he asked "How is this merciful?" the veteran told him "They're letting the families have the bodies to mourn over."

Love how Brolin has utter contempt for almost everyone in the movie

That opening scene is nuts. Imagine being on law enforcement and seeing that, and then have put a smile on ur face when u go home to see ur family at the end of day. That can't be easy

Benicio gives one of the best and subtle performances of all time here.

y'all are killing the show reactions, but i'm always glad to see a movie.

24:25 I can’t stop gushing about this shot. They really captured a desert sunset which is so fucking hard to do digitally or otherwise. They just hit DIFFERENT

“Prisoners” is AMAZING, you’d love it

27:06 Maple: "Did she actually get shot?" Yes. Alejandro intentionally shot her in the vest knowing the Kevlar would prevent the bullet from penetrating but that the impact would stun her.

"Do directors pick their favourite composers, and then do they tend to work with the same musical composers?" Sometimes. There are some famous examples of this: Alfred Hitchcock - Bernard Hermann Federico Fellini - Nino Rota Steven Spielberg - John Williams David Lynch - Angelo Badalamenti Sergio Leone - Ennio Morricone Christopher Nolan - Hans Zimmer Tim Burton - Danny Elfman

I think that Alejandro put the gun against Kate's head as a favour. Everytime that she was given an out, she refused it, she just kept delving deeper and deeper into the whole situation, regardless of what it was doing to her. She would have probably signed the form eventually, going against everything that she believed she stood for, but this way she was able to keep her moral compass intact, she could tell herself that she was forced into signing it.

He is up so close to make him as uncomfortable and so low on the power scale he's like an insect. so alejandro treats him with the respect he deserves.

Water jug of justice ✌️

Steve, the guy with the nerdy glasses, was based on Mike Vining who was a real life member the U.S. Army's elite Delta Force.

PTSD can't just magically be treated. It never goes away. The quicker people understand this, the quicker we can move forward on better treatments, but then people like Maple exist.

8:09 Google maps but ominous 😭

13:00 it’s a show of dominance basically, kind of a mind game, like I’m invading your personal space and you can’t do shit about it, it’s also just showing a huge lack of respect and even contempt and fury in such a small show of dominance, I love this movie

2:58 Nobody in the history of humanity as ever made that sound before

The question about being married was not intended for "dating", but to research wheter she has a family, kids ect., as the mission was dangerous, and a single man / woman was preferred. Also there is a greater chance, than a person which has no close emotional relation will be more keen to risk.

Sadly the composer of this movie passed away before he had a chance to be brought in for Dune. I still think this is Denis’s best film.

"If his dog opens an account I want you to freeze it" I would hope anyone whose dog opens an account at a bank has the account frozen...

Nice, sicario is a banger of a a movie. Denis villeneuve simply don’t miss. Y’all should do the other 2 movies in Taylor Sheridan’s frontier trilogy, they’re a thematic trilogy of movies written by Sheridan that released b2b2b and they’re all amazing, hell or high water is so good even above sicario for me personally and wind river is fantastic too and Sheridan also directed that one. Wind river and especially hell or high water get so little attention from reactors compared to sicario which is a real bummer because they’re all amazing with stellar casts and fantastic direction and scripts.

Sicario is such a good choice, especially because of where they are in Breaking Bad! Love watching reactions to the first time viewers of Sicario 🙏🏽

Arianna recommended this? Arianna has a sick sense of humour; I like it.

lmfao "He's like the fucking Riddler bro!"

Looking great Maple! Enjoyed this one a lot!

"Is this TRUE? Does this shit happen??" Hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

19:38 Isn't he a Cowboy in a movie?..."NOPE" 😃 This is such an amazing movie all-around.

I like the little bit of dialogie between Brolin and Blunt after the border crossing "you're giving us the opportunity to shake the tree" and "learn, that's why you're here", Brolin straight up tells her and the audience her actual involvement in the entire movie before it's spelled out to her and the audience at the end. With the learn part it's phrased like she's here to learn about what the cartels are actually up to and get some insight into the bigger picture but really it's learn that you're just a rubber stamp for us to do the shit that needs to be done.

Anyone else think the ladies should watch Wind River with Jeremy Renner & Elizabeth Olsen? Or The Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling? Super underrated movies

"Google maps but ominous" is so funny and so real

MAN ON FIRE WITH DENZEL WASHINGTON!!! Another one of my fave movies! 🔥🔥🔥 similar to sicario style but completely its own vibe 🔥🔥

Sicario 2 is even gnarlier, IMO.

If you enjoyed this I'd recommend Soderburgh's Traffic which also features Benicio del Toro, Don Cheedle, Michael Douglas and his very pregnant wifey Catherine Zeta Jones. Four stories about the drug trade that intertwine in a really intelligent manner. Also the documentary Cartel Land is essential viewing about militias on both sides of the border.

A watch is one of the most complicated machines in human history if they're accurate.

Fantastic movie that really has you gripped, one of the best movies to do that in the last decade or so. My other one I always recommend is Shot Caller (2017), a criminally overlooked movie starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jamie Lannister from GoT you know) - and he's fantastic in this movie - together with a bunch of other highly recognizable actors. Regular family man Nikolaj makes a mistake and winds up in state prison, and once inside it's basically sink or swim. The movie actually opens with him being released from prison after his time is up, and we follow his struggle to complete one last deal he can't back out from, while the time leading up to and including the prison sentence is shown in flashbacks. It's just a gut-wrenching depiction of what the US state prison system does to its inmates, and what the inmates have to do to not become a target, a victim.

13:17 “what is happening” 😂😂

That's the desert for you...beautiful sunsets. I grew up in El Paso. I remember the news stories on the Mexican stations and in the newspapers...that shit went down. But on the US part of the border...you'd hear whispers but just like they said, wouldn't even make the front page. Biggest story I remember was that one of the high schools close to the border ended up with some bullet hole due to cartel disputes.

"What camera settings do you need to film dust?" she asks of the director of Dune

This type of stuff is very real to answer your question around 10:20-10:25

One of my top 5 favorite movies of the last 20 years

When Maple finally recognizes Jon Bernthal was thinking she was gonna say Punisher. But The Bear works too 😆

"Time to meet God" is one of the coldest lines.

Damn, Maple is on point being able to guess where they are going with certain events. When I watched this I kept getting surprised. 👍

"it's like Google Maps.. but ominous" lmao

With so many other movies the viewer knows more of what's happening than the protagonist but here we're kept in the dark with Kate and it really adds to the discomfort

OMG Maple, I'm three minutes in and this is one of the best reactions you've done for the channel! Edit: And I really liked the edit too, some key lines that other Sicario reactions often miss were nice to see here.

maple once said “THEWORSTPOSSBLETHINGTHATCOULDHAPPENITSLITERALLYTHAT🗣️🗣️🦅🦅”😂

Awesome Movie Maple 🥰🥰

Great performance by Benicio ... a great movie.

“ ….. US Marshals, DEA, Delta …..” Delta Force warriors r the cream of the crop when it comes to US military special forces. They recruit from the other US military special forces; SeALs, Green Berets, Rangers, Marine Force Recon, etc. Very, very few attendees r chosen for Delta.

Maple… you’re my favorite! It’s always a pleasure watching your reactions

Damn Maple… Oh and yeah Benicio Del Toro is great in this. The score and scenery really set the tone and mood as well 🤘🏽

Sweetie, this is certainly everyday life in Mexico. It's just that we don't print it in our newspapers because it's way too graphic.

Love you Maple!

I swear, Benicio Del Toro is an absolute chameleon of an actor. P.S. He and Josh Brolin have a scene together in Avengers: Infinity War, though I'm not sure if they actually filmed together given the nature of such a production.

I always liked that they used CAG guys for the border retrieval

Great reaction loved it you were awesome 🌹😎👍❤️

prediction: Maple - I want to drive an armored vehicle into a criminal hideout

Thanos is amazing, even without his makeup But Tivan…..omg

Thank you Arianna for the recommendation omg what a friend 😂

Never noticed before how much Brolin's character seems to enjoy people being tortured.

I'm from Phoenix and my cousins across the wall tell me about the crazy shit that happens back home and tell me how I'm lucky at first I didn't believe it until I went over there and saw all the Cartel check points and some of my cousins were involved when we got older because for a lot of the places in Mexico theres hardly jobs or ways to make money so they join and make bigger money than any job that's in Mexcio or try to come across to US

There was a nice TV show on this subject that was cut short (way too short) - Coyote (2021), with Michael Chiklis. You may want to add it to the viewing routine.

Yes this happens on day to day basis depends were in Mexico ur from

This movie looks so good because of Roger Deakins.

In answer to your question Maple, yes. A director with enough power will choose not only the Composer, but also the DP, the editor, and many other crew members. Just look at how many films Spielberg and Williams have worked on.

There is NO way those bodies didnt stink up the entire area.

The Zealots - Reminds me of the Masada miniseries from the 80's - Total blast to watch

I live in south Texas this is very very real. you can see the border from my ranch.

Tank god!! I love this movie and she got the chest out!! Perfect.

I love Josh Brolin's characters condesending "Yep, that's why you're here!!" Basically saying, after everything you've seen and all you've been thru, you still haven't learned what accomplishes results in this war!! Other than, you are a 100% a sheep and you don't belong in this life!!

"Is Sicario our main character?" Wow! Actually, yes! He is!

Maple, youre not allowed to cover your eyes and look away! ..you have one job!

Such a great movie! LETS GOOO!! 💪😎💪

Josh Brolin.... The Goonies. Lol

The big water bottle is for water boarding

Yes Maple, this has been happening since like 2004 or earlier but has been getting increasingly bad. We used to visit every year and I don't go anymore. If you think I must be exaggerating, look up the Iguala Massacre. It shows how the corruption of state and military with the cartel was able to cover up the execution/MASSACRE of 40 something college students. ✌❤

“Now finish eating.” Was cut! The most badass line and it didn’t make the edit :(

Maple you sounded like you knew where nogales was and what the border vehicles look like. Have you been there?

i wish dune had the same tension as his previous films. its amazing what he did with Dune but i didnt feel the same level of excitement. then again i never read the books so that could be it lol.

You guys should really check out the movie sabotage from 2014 with Arnold Schwarzenegger great movie killer cast as well

Marvelous Maple 😘

Watch Prisoners! ❤

The twins are looking good maple

If anyone plays Call of Duty, this Alejandro guy is the Ghost there. Kinda legend!

The score was done by Johan Johansson. He died too young. Rip to a true master

Villeneuve always gets carried by Roger Deakins.

Wifey and Sicario. I'm here for it.

Jeffrey Donovan's drip is unparalleled

Is it just me or has the lady slowly slowly let the fun side out😜

damn, i was startin to think you guys switched to an exclusively shows format

Maple looking elegant as always.

Watch Incendies from Villeneuve next please

It’s real and so much worse. The cartel gore videos on line are insane. “Funkytown Gore” is almost unimaginable.

Maples to fine

Wtf I just watched this last night. Lol

Flip flops in a formal meeting is a Delta-boy move - they do not give a f and they think they are better than everyone else in that room - and they are generally right. BTW glasses-guy is based on a famous actual D-boy.