The special ops team in Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated crime film bothers the expert because of their lack of technology

With the recent release of the acclaimed Dune: Part TwoDenis Villeneuve has become one of Hollywood’s most respected and popular filmmakers. Even outside of his time on the desert planet Arrakis, Villeneuve is known for his work in the science fiction genre, making films such as Arrival in 2016 and the underrated Blade Runner 2049 in 2017. However, Villeneuve has also made a number of more down-to-earth films with great success.

The French-Canadian writer/director was released Prisoners In 2013, for example, a crime thriller starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. This down-to-earth and harrowing film paved the way for another down-to-earth film a few years later, trading the low-key story of a man seeking the truth about his daughter’s kidnapping for a national story about special forces soldiers and the war on drugs.

Sicario receives a mediocre accuracy rating from the firearms expert

The Denis Villeneuve film makes some mistakes

Army firearms expert Patrick McNamara analyzed Sicario and points out several areas in which the Villeneuve film falls short. Published in 2015, Villeneuve’s successor too Prisoners And Enemy Emily Blunt stars as Kate Maceran FBI agent who joins a government task force to combat cartel operations on the U.S.-Mexico border. Sicario The film received rave reviews and was a box office success, with some of the film’s tense action scenes being particularly praised, including one set in and around a network of tunnels at night.

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In a recent video for insiderMcNamara collapses SicarioThe nighttime tunnel raid reveals that the film – and Blunt – make several mistakes. The firearms expert first points this out Soldiers should use some type of lighting or laser on their weapons in combination with their night vision gogglesbut he also has issues with aspects of Blunt’s weapon handling. Check out McNamara’s analysis below, as well as his score for the sequence out of 10:

One of the things that bothers me about this clip is the use of firearms in the dark. You all have NODs on, right? Night observation devices. None of these people, none of them, as far as I saw, had any kind of lights on their rifles. So they basically shoot indiscriminately.

It’s a huge battlefield multiplier and I’m surprised they didn’t include one here. I think that these should be special forces and that they are not in the business of shooting indiscriminately. They have to be able to shoot with impunity – that’s their job, and they get paid a lot of money for it.

She’s in the line of fire, her rifle is fired and now she has to switch to her pistol. This has never happened to me, but I know two guys who had it happen to them, who were shot directly in the rifle and the rifle became inoperable.

When she switched from rifle to pistol, I found the grip to be pretty good. It was a good, firm grip. It was a full expansion, which… if you go ahead, probably not a full expansion like this. You want to include it a little to create a sort of shock absorber because when it’s fully extended and you move you create a sort of pendulum that bounces up and down (…)

For realism I would rate this clip a six (out of 10). I found the weapon techniques not great, not good, just above average.

What Sicario’s accuracy score means for the film

The film didn’t need perfect accuracy to be successful

Sicario The film currently holds a strong 92% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, with its audience-led Popcorn Meter score also impressive at 85%. The film received several Oscar nominations, including Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Sound Editing. In addition to its critical success, Sicario was also a box office success, grossing $84.8 million worldwide against a budget of $30 millionand thus paved the way for a sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado three years later.

The fact that Sicario Ultimately, although there may be some inaccuracies, this should not significantly affect the film’s reputation as a success. After all, most viewers wouldn’t notice these inaccuracies at first, and Ultimately, it’s more important that the film seems realistic than that it actually is. Nevertheless, McNamara’s analysis of Sicario remains interesting and worthwhile as an exercise, shedding further light on the process of filmmaking and the relationship between artistry and realism.

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Sicario

Sicario is an action crime film directed by Denis Villeneuve. In the film, Emily Blunt plays Kate Macer, an FBI agent who is recruited to help Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) in the war on drugs that is escalating at the U.S.-Mexico border. The film was praised upon its release and nominated for three Academy Awards, leading to a sequel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, in 2018.

Release date

October 2, 2015

Duration

121 minutes

writer

Taylor Sheridan

budget

30 million dollars

Sales partner

Sony, Lionsgate

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