‘Sicario’ (2015) Review
Sicario (2015) Review: Cops And Cartels Television will often portray officers and detectives as the ideal of law enforcement. Aside from more recent shows like 'The Wire' and 'Chicago P.D', cops for decades were presented as good-natured men and women in trench-coats, intimately involved with the cases that come to their desk that get solved at the end of each episode. But whereas the corrupt cop is the exception in the land of tv, film takes the opposite approach.Dirty Harry looks for the excuse to pull his gun, Alonzo Harris runs drugs in L.A, and most recently, the feds in 'Black Mass' were actively involved in the goings on of a criminal organization! It's safe to say that when it comes to law enforcement in film, you can expect a few morally questionable individuals to be in the mix. Of course, that's what makes them so good. You take what is supposed to be an institution for the protection of the people and you perverse it. The trouble is if every representation of a thing is similarly contrary, how the hell do you stand out? 'Sicario' delves into the same idea of ethical boundaries, with a pragmatic touch. The film follows the story of Emily Blunt's, 'Kate Macer'. Kate is a field operative working with SWAT to bring down drug houses owned by Mexican cartels but located in the United States. Kate is operating under the insanity doctrine of policing, doing the same thing over and over without a varied result. When…