Sicario is a very big punch to the gut. But one that hits you in a good way. Sicario , as the opening moments of the movie tells us, is the Spanish word for ‘hitman’. The movie follows FBI agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), one who specializes in cases dealing with kidnappings. In the opening scene, her team invades a house tipped off to be holding hostages somewhere in Arizona. Instead of hostages, they find dead bodies strewn up along the house walls – victims of a Mexican drug cartel. It’s a scene none of them are expecting, and we can tell this, because they all discharge to the front yard to vomit. Following this case, Kate is summoned to an FBI office where she is transferred and recruited to be part of a team lead by a Department of Defense consultant named Matt (Josh Brolin). His casual demeanor throws her off and she is unsure of what she’s getting into. Matt’s scope of work is a bit grander than what Kate is used to....