The way he simultaneously hold the gun to her head ready to kill her without remorse while gently wiping away her tears as if she were his daughter. Brilliant.
Someone else pointed out that Alejandro was just testing her resolve when he threatened to kill her and would have left if she truly refused to sign. It was better that he pressure her than let the CIA handle her if she was going to be going against national policy.
For a man with so many defining roles, this one truly stands apart. I think the greatest factor being, he actively chose to cut almost all of his dialogue, telling the director he felt the character needed to be more of a quiet mercenary. It was the choice that probably made this film what it is. The movie gravitates around his pain, which is felt through his utter silence.
Small towns are easy to take over by drug cartels, especially law enforcement. Bigger cities are actually safer in my opinion. Drug money can buy a small police force but not an entire city. This is especially true in border towns.
King justice big disagreement there. Cities have huge amounts of crime and populace, this can be attributed with an analogy like;small countries proportionately to the rule and ruled and much more cohesive. This is why rural parts of America are the only good parts of the country anymore. Everywhere else has been essentially destroyed with huge taxes debts because of government influx into sectors and mass migration that has led to mass amounts of crime and gang members the shittiest place eine America are huge cities. Detritus, Chicago, ny, all bc things like gangs too. Show me gangs in place like the dakotas, utah, oklahoma
@@trevormanfoxy7141 There aren't any drug gangs in Bumfuck, South Dakota because there isn't ANYTHING in Bumfuck, South Dakota at all. Middle America has been in a permanent vegetative state since the American manufacturing industry moved to China; just a whole bunch of barren towns, forgotten by time, with no industry, no jobs, no opportunity, no future. There's a reason why it's called "Flyover Country", and there's a reason why drug gangs don't even bother showing up there-- because there's nothing there to interest them (or anyone, for that matter).
@Sammy R. Exactly lol. It bothers me how so many "expert psychologists" watch this movie and claim he is a broken shell of a man. Broken? yes, Shell? No. No one is ever a shell even in the most remote way. A shell of a human is practically impossible because, at that point, they have to be either mind controlled or just a complete vegetable. As long as someone has some semblance of awareness and consciousness, they can never be a "shell"
@Sammy R. Which in a beutifully poetic and tragic way makes you just as much as anyone else no matter how good or bad off the shalloe and deep end "HUMAN". You know why? Because its the human condition, which is to hope. There is not a single humqn who walks this earth that doesnt have hope. In fact hope as complex as it is, is existence in of itslef and defines all that has life. Heck even those who contemplate and commit suicide, have hope. A hope that their departure from this world will lead to a better outcome. No one commits suicide believing they are going to a shittier plane of existence, otherwise they wouldnt even consider it no matter how sad, broken, evil or masochistic they are. It is the beauty and tragedy of hope. If they did, then they are no longer human at that point, because the human consition down to the cells is not inherently self sabotaging. Sorry for the rant, quarantine is getting to me. But for real tho, when it comes down to the bare bonr and root of all matters, faith and fear drive all that we do (good, grey, and bad) as human or living things in general. For example in this movie, even if in the slighest form, Alejandro has an uota of fwith that he will see his wife and daughter again. Thus he is driven to belive that if he exacts revenge for them, he can let them know of he didnt let their death go in vain. At the same time, he is scared and totally afraid of thr world as it is and has no faith it csn be a better one, thus he adopts the mantra of a false wolf as we see he was driven to this state. This same fear drives his motive for revenge since hr is afraid if he doesnt do this, the death of his wife and daughter will be in vain and he choose to fall deeper into an emotionless state as e is intrinsically aafraid to get his heart ripped out again. Okay thats enough lol
How many shifted in their seats during this scene, cause they had to order some person to be killed cause they WOULDNT keep their mouth shut, just like Kate? Those people exist too
@@cenoviopereira8603 they are neither psychopaths or killers they are Soldiers working Government agency they are secret soldiers NOT a killers. And that's the job they are doing.
There is a message underneath. The fact that Alehandro says "you remind me of the daughter they took from me" or a bit earlier "you're like a little girl when you're scared" it is not a coincidence. For him Kate is the closest thing to the daughter he lost and the only person who can judge him. Alejandro knows that he has cross the line multiple times and he is probably a monster at this point. He has even kill children in cold blood, and he's about to put a gun in her head in order to achieve what he wants. So, after everything is over and the last nail has been put to the coffin with Kate signing the papers, it is time for judgement. He breaks the gun down to pieces instead of taking it, and gives time to Kate to put it back together. Kate takes the gun and goes to the balcony. Everything has been planned by Alejandro until this point. Remember what is the first thing he says at the beginning of the scene " you shouldn't go outside to the balcony Kate" you can see the father daughter relationship between them. Father says something then the child does the opposite. And then all of a sudden Alejandro stops for no reason and turns around. He knows that Kate will be there and turns to listen the verdict of his dead daughter. And the daughter although she is angry with her father she forgives him because she understands.
best take ive read in multiple comment sections. especially love the "child does the opposite" because yes thats what kate did earlier by going into the bank!
The cartel boss even asking him if his wife would approve what he had become, and his daughter too... Make senses with what you wrote here. She does approve. Brilliant, truly.
In your typical Hollywood film, this final confrontation with Kate wouldn't generate much suspense because you could safely assume that the compulsory sentimentality of the studio will keep him from shooting her. Not so in this case. Alejandro has already murdered a woman and her children on screen, so you go into this scene knowing that he's capable of anything, not knowing whether Kate will live or die. In fact, I'm convinced that's the main reason why the writers had him shoot the wife and kids. Really brilliant screenplay.
The pistol wasn't in battery. When Alejandro disassembled it no round fell out. He knew that when he held it to her head. He wasn't going to kill her, her conscience was going to do all the work. I have no doubt if Graver had told him to kill Kate, he would have, but in this instance, he had no reason nor real desire to do so. The gun was so at any point she could tell herself "He had a gun to my head." That's my take on it anyway.
In a typical Hollywood film there would be an elaborate set, CGI, and an overbearing Hans Zimmer soundtrack. Director Villeneuve needs nothing of the sort.
I’ve seen tons of people say her character was useless in the movie, and I’m like, did we even watch the same movie! She is great in this movie, and leaving her out of the sequel is kind of a baffling decision, she is very necessary for the overall tone and message of the movie.
He knew she wouldn’t shoot, she’s not a wolf. Also I think there more meaning to him stand square in front of her. Moments before she demonstrated that she is not willing to die and he was showing her he was and further proving she isn’t cut out for this line of work.
@@christopherharrison9981 That's why she ended up moving to a small town where the rule of law still exists and didn't appear in the sequel. At least, I don't think she was in the sequel. I haven't seen it yet. Silly me.
The director was amazing. See how Dels character is constantly in the dark while Emily's character is in the light. These thing play with your mind. Without even understanding this movie someone can see (dont mess with this guy).
Symbolism man. general Audience are not supposed to pick up these things and articulate them, but our unconscious does, whether or not we realize it. Things like Archetypes, Metaphors, Visual Symbolism are very important in movies, it makes us lock in with the characters in a more profound way.
Let's be real here, del Toro should have been the next Batman. I mean, he already is he just wears a black business suit instead of dressing like a flying rodent.
@@starwarsorsomething5703 Sylvia Hoeks, who played Luv in Villeneuve's Bladerunner 2049, is also in The Girl In The Spider's Web. I just watched that this week and it's quite good, I have no idea why it was savaged by audiences and flopped so hard.
1:29 "You remind me of the daughter, they took away from me." I know Alejandro did a lot of dreadful things in the movie but when he said that my heart broke for him.
Alejandro's gun is empty. He removes the magazine without ejecting a round, then disassembles it - you can't do that without the chamber being empty or putting a round through the drywall. Take the meaning for that of what you will, but I don't know many assassins who would intentionally approach an armed target with an empty chamber. May be an armorer mistake, but Villeneuve is a thoughtful director. I doubt he would put that kind of detail into the movie by mistake.
It's her own sidearm, that's why he left it behind. But you're right, he never racked the slide, so perhaps he just knew that intimidation alone would be enough to persuade Kate.
@@mrkwns24 I dunno, maybe - it's hard to tell if that's Alejandro's Glock 17 or Kate's Glock 19. (Leaning towards a G19, but hard to tell with the dark room and camera angles) Again, it seems kind of odd for an assassin to not bring his own gun, or for a cop to keep her gun condition 3... I personally think that Alejandro did not particularly want to kill her, because he is being sincere when he says she reminds him of his daughter. But it's hard to tell what's going on in that man's head.
@Rosalyn - remember when he put the gun under her chin and says that "that would be suicide Kate" ? It was her gun, and confirmed as first guy said, he leaves it behind
@@rosalynnought2590 obviously it was her gun. he wouldnt leave his gun behind. also suicide makes sense with her own gun. he didnt want to kill her but would have
It makes perfect sense. He compares her to his daughter twice in this movie. I doubt he was looking to kill even a representation of his daughter. We've seen Alejandro be a dog in somebody else war but only for his own ends. I think Alejandro came to test her. Ready her. He came to show her what would come if she didn't sign. A warning. Whether she signed the paper or not he would of walked without killing her.
This scene is incredible, the way he looks at her in the end ... He even turns to her so that if she really wanted to kill him, don't miss the shot, the pistol in her hands, trembling, because she realizes that he's needed to clean the shit in this world and of course, she wouldn't commit a cold murder that way, INCREDIBLE.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the whole point of the film is that it was all meaningless. This is perfectly symbolised by the ACTUAL ending, where the son of the corrupt cop who was unjustly and unmercifully killed goes to the soccer game, and then........ gunfires again. They look at it for a while, and just continue to play. All they did was killing one guy for personal vendetta, and another is soon to take place anyway. The main character of the movie is truly the moral core, meant to be the audience's surrogate: she experiences things from the outside, hoping that it would ultimately lead to somewhere, that it would be useful.... but it's not. At the end of the film, nothing is changed.
@@filmtajm35 The fat fuck wasn't man enough to fight for his country when it needed him; he wasn't even man enough to be a conscientious objector and face the consequences of his actions. He hid behind his daddy and had him pay off some doctor. Funny how you people buy into such a blatantly fake "tough guy" act with such ease.
Alejandro's character is truly terrifying in this movie. Not just because he's a trained killer and ruthless. But more that he's a man with nothing to live for except revenge. And no matter how many he kills, he will never be satisfied because it will never bring his daughter back. I think the beauty in this scene, and overall movie, is the contrast between Emily blunt's character and Del Toro's. Kate wants to do everything by the book and Alejandro does nothing by the book. Yet, Alejandro's character is the one who's actually able to make a difference in the drug war. To live and kill amongst the wolves, you have to become one yourself
You're not wrong. However, I've always found the "it'll never bring them back" trope such a piss poor counter argument. It's practically an insult to someone's intelligence because it implies they're stupid enough to believe someone will miraculously come back to life once the murderer is dead.
Lol I wasn’t implying that Alejandro thought that in a literal sense. I was just using it to explain that the pain of losing his daughter is something that can never be rectified. Therefore no amount of killing will be enough
He's a broken man that has lost his entire family. A man that you would think no longer feels. But in fact he does.His way of dealing with his loss ,is to distinguish everything responsible for that loss.What ever happens in between, "so be it ". His mission continues how ever long he wishes it to. Such a person is needed in this world to clean up the worst of the worst. Call him a broken Saint.
@@heyitsmeLarryFNJ not at ALL. Batman is an idealist- he doesn't kill- Benicio's character kills women and children, because he has been twisted by the so called "reality" of things: and people celebrate his character because they think that because the world is evil, it demands such action. I think such people miss the point of this movie: the fact that you become a monster in dealing with monstrosity actually means that monstrosity is not the solution to itself.
This is truly one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. Everything about it is absolutely perfect. By this point Alejandro is so broken, so beaten-down, that we can not understand his true intentions. He has already cemented himself as someone who is capable of killing her, yet he remains to calm, gentle, and almost monotone throughout this scene. The way he masks his true emotions, and therefor his intentions, is absolutely incredible on Del Toro's part and the directing alike. When he turns to her in the end and faces the gun, even then his intentions are somewhat hidden. Is he mocking her in a way, knowing that she does not have the courage to pull the trigger? Or is he in fact so battered, so broken, that he does not care by that point whether he lives or dies?
That's one interpretation. Alejandro is a broken man in the sense that his former life has been taken but he fights back in a way that goes against his former self. His sense of justice has morphed from prosecuting within the system to taking matters into his own hands but he never crosses the line of offing a good guy. Alejandro was never going to pull the trigger on Kate after telling her she reminded of his daughter. This statement reveals his feelings and respect for Kate born of her resisting him. At the end when he faces Kate and gives Kate the opportunity to shoot him, he is willing to accept his fate for what he has done. This is masterful film making. No elaborate sets. No music. Just two outstanding professional actors immersed in their roles.
Notice the lighting. Emily Blunt is brightly lit, warm, good heart. Benicio is dark, shadowy, slightly evil. As he pushes her to sign it the camera comes much closer to Emily as well, shows her being pressured and trapped. Really cool stuff.
Pointing the gun at her probably saved her a lifetime of guilt for choosing to make the operation legal, she was going to sign that paper willingly and Alejandro knew that this would have killed her, so he “took that choice away from her” by putting a gun to her head even though he probably would have never pulled that trigger.
Man, forgot how powerful this scene was. Great acting. He was both dangerously threatening and gentle with her. When he gently held and stroked her hand and wiped her tears away - and even in the way he spoke to her. You believed He could have loved her deeply or killed her just the same. He was a shell of a man now, a ghost, a demon- and even revenge did not “cure” him. He had become something else in his journey to avenge his family: a wolf- the ugly truth. Maybe this is who he really was just underneath. He was an attorney and now he’s a hired assassin. Kate was completely broken at this point after her experiences. New respect for her acting also. I’m not sure if they received any awards for this movie because of it’s very dark nature, but they deserved academy awards for these very intense scenes.
@@qwentingreer6793 God I hope her character is not in it. We'll just see a lot of screen time her trying to take down their shady operation while coping with PTSD.
Chad Tyrone A common theme in Taylor Sheridan’s work is that there are no villains or heroes. Everybody on this earth is bad, some people just try harder to be good. She tried the hardest to be good and morally bound. It didn’t work out. Doesn’t make her incompetent.
I love the raw emotion this scene has. At the very end when Kate goes to shoot Alejandro she realizes two things: That the world is a world of wolves now like he said and Alejandro is needed to clean up that world and that not shooting him in cold blood is what separates her from him. If she had shot him she'd be just as bad as he is.
I agree Nick. And perhaps Alejandro, without saying it out loud or admitting it out loud, respects her morals even though he doesn't work the way she does
I interpreted the scene as if she realized she had been just lied to, again; the whole “you remind me of my daughter they killed” was just a bunch of BS, to get her to sign the document. Her whole existence on the team was a loophole/excuse for the CIA to operate domestically.
Shooting him here wouldn’t have been in cold blood. He was there to kill her, he forced her at gunpoint to lie and break her internal code, not to mention he’s a hired killer for the Columbian drug cartel and she’s an FBI agent.
I think that its more than her thinking that he's needed to clean up the mess. She probably felt sorry for him and didn't think that she could kill him for whatever he did.
Thee acting is fantastic. Brolin, Blunt, Del Toro. I love this film so much. My friend in London watched it for the first time last night. He went crazy. He said the best film he has seen. I just want number 3. Soldado was good. Benecio is one of the greatest.
This movie was absolutely perfect in so many ways. Del is one amazing actor. Because of this movie I went through his entire filmography and always see his new work since. Emily also killed it, but Thanos, woah, Thanos snapped off.
"We get dirty so the world stays clean. That's the mission". Captain Price. That's pretty much the message this movie is telling us. Sometimes you need fire to fight fire.
The message of the movie is that war makes us all into beasts. The fact that Alejandro murdered a woman and two children in cold blood REALLY should have made that clear.
That he says, 'You remind me of my daughter' yet has no problem to threaten her, shows just how much he himself is dead. He died when they killed his wife and daughter.
I like how his background is mostly dark except for the kitchen light. Like hes all dark but is secretly or justifiably good?.....or he belongs in the kitchen
A lot people pointed out the gun was probably empty which is a good detail to catch. Another one I haven't seen pointed out yet is, he's such a good hitman/sicario when he told Kate it would be suicide if she didnt sign, he held the gun exactly how it would be positioned if she herself pulled the trigger, bottom of gun facing her left side (pretty sure kate is right handed). From his position this is an awkward way to fire so it reveals hes keenly aware to make it look like a suicide from the correct position of where the gun would fired. Great attention to detail by the director as its such a small detail if he held it normally it would be fine (no one would notice) but since it's part of his character they made sure to do it correctly. Insane small detail.
1:27 notice after how he closes his eyes and opens them back up after he mentions that Emily reminds him of his daughter. It’s almost like he closes that door immediately, and the Wolf comes out again. Felt really bad for Alejandro.
that ending is so good... i mean the whole scene is, but kate being unable to shoot and instead of alejandro appealing to her empathy by showing her the back as in "you won't shoot a unsuspecting, unarmed target" after turning, he fully turns and is facing her like "bring it on, you don't have the balls to push through like we have". then she lowers her gun and proves his point: she is not a wolf.
The best part is that the movie never frames Kate as wrong for not being a wolf. Alejandro is one, but his life is horrible on very different levels because of all the conditions that turned him in one of the wolfs.
It’s almost as if he was trying to turn her into the monster he is. But when she didn’t succumb to his way of thinking just goes to show there are still good people in this world. Just like Wanda Maximoff
@@shingnosis "You can pull the trigger on me, but we both know this will do no one justice." Also Kate's finger was off the trigger the whole time. She knew it too.
True. He is right. She is not a wolf and doesn't belong in scenarios like the ones she went through in the film. Still, I have a small feeling that Alejandro silently envies her morals. He was on a mission to avenge his family, and he probably feels like he's too far gone. If I were in his shoes, I would completely envy her morals. He did her a favor, and maybe she did move off to a small-town where law exist and should. If he hadn't of done what he did in the apartment, she would have hounded him, and that might have bended her.....not what he wanted for her.
The way he takes a seat next to her is a throwback to the beginning of the film when he shoves his crouch in that guys face in the interrogation room. So subtle and subliminal
Sometimes doing the right thing is getting dirty, she was pure in the way she applied the rule of law and standard operational procedures but drug cartel war is a different battlefield where laws is just a piece of paper, nothing more nothing less and it gets more complicated to Alejandros personal grief and dread to revenge his family taken down by the cartel boss. I think justice is better served this way but you have to be sure and exact with your revenge and think of the consequences later.
@@nikolaizetrov617 By knowingly letting 1000's of innocents die for the sake of killing a few selected ''bad guys'' because of her own selfish view of whats right or wrong, that's not pure that's evil!
On her own perspective she blindly complies to what is implemented by her government not knowing that it was not enough to stop the Cartel because she never had the experience and motivation that Alejandro has. If she had been through what Alejandro had experience in the hands of those bastards it will be a different story, she may even end up aiding Alejandro thus making the cartel boss and his family meeting God earlier than it used to be hahaha.
@Lina Lina She never followed orders... she was ordered to go along with it, that the rules have changed, but her selfish ''moral compass'' wouldn't allow her to see the greater good...
@@giosy0072she can’t , cuz deep deep down she knows that Alejandro is dealing with something beyond her understanding, no matter how hard she tries to understand.
There is a moment at 5:21 where it appears as if she has a red dot on her cheek. And yes, I know she is crying but in that split second, it appears to be a red dot that fades out eventually. I don't know if this was intentional or lighting. It could just be tears but I have just never seen tears reflect light in that manner, but what do I know about film light, right? Either way, this was a brilliant way to end this film. Del Toro's character, Alejandro, is a broken man who continues his downward spiral in the next film. I cannot wait for the third installment of this series. Alejandro's character has become a sort of John Wick of the Sicario world.
I love that her setting down the pen after signing the document is almost like the sound of the gun going off. Like by giving in and not staying true to her morals she metaphorically "died".
This isn't the ending scene, but the penultimate scene. The last scene is with the kids at the football pitch, with the gunfire and haunting music that reminds us that even after all is said and done, nothing changes in Mexico.
Emily Blunt is fucking underappreciated, especially in this film. This movie gets the disparity of strength between men & women. No sugar-coated scenes , pure realism
I do not believe Alejandro is being at all tender in this scene. He is cunning, manipulative, and ruthless. He is only trying to further weaken her already damaged emotional state. The more cracks he can put in her, the more he can manipulate her. Otherwise he would not have broken into her apartment. If this were not the case, Matt or one of her FBI friends would have gone to her. She has a strong moral compass and she needed to be manipulated into signing it.
No, he's giving her a way out and forcing her hand into signing it. He's also proud of her not getting into the dirt with him when she refuses to fire - he sees a pure soul and one that got out of this without being corrupted. It's a brutal way of getting her out of this mess, but he helped her.
I love how he respects her enough at the end to turn to face her bullet, making himself as a target easier for her to hit, the calculation that she wont take the shot before he then turns to walk away is utterly ice cold. She's spent, she wants out, her story is over.
I dont think it was calculation she wouldnt take the shot. I think he was prepared to die and probably wanted to..at this point he's kinda like Chighur in No Country For Old Men.....more like a force of nature than human. His family is gone and he has nothing to live for except perpetual vengence. When death finally comes to him he'll welcome it. It just didn't this time.
I like what someone else said, it wasn't calculation. He was looking for judgement, would his dead daughter kill him for what he did in the name of vengeance? Her reply was she would be upset but she wouldn't condemn him.
i like how half of Alejandro's face is darkened by the shadows and Kates' is fully visible. Might be reading too much in to it but i think it signifies their own personalities.
You can see that Alejandro is really a broken man. He has nothing left to loose. When Kate points the gun at him I think she realizes that. Also that fact that it probably won’t play out in her favor killing him.
I think that, of all the ways in which Alejandro can die, being killed by Kate in those circumstances is the one that bothers him the least. So he turns to look at her with a clear conscience, as if dying at her hands were a less unworthy end than he hopes in the future.
Alejandro is such a a terrifying asset. When he was in the interrogation room with the cartel goon, he "seck-shoe-lee" assaulted that dude. Here he goes from saying she reminds him of his daughter to a split second later having zero issue deleting her.
I don't get the complaints about Kate in this movie "oh she's too weak, she doesn't do ninja moves, she gets beat up all the time" that's the entire point and this moment encapsulated that, Kate isn't supposed to be the rock in the stream she starts out that way but slowly throughout the film she gets beat up and spit out to the point where in this scene she's completely abandoned her morals, she's a totally different person from the start and end of this movie she starts out by the book and tries to stay that way but throughout the film she realizes it's futile and this place is just not her speed Alejandro was telling her the truth, she does not belong there plain and simple
I completely agree. And for all we know, as much as Alejandro's methods can be dirty yet are more progressive and get things done, perhaps he silently envies Kate's morals. His are all out the window, and hers are still tied strong to her heart.
"You will not survive here, you're not a wolf, and this is the land of wolves now" - says "The Wolfman" himself.
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Omg. Benicio and Emily were both in *The Wolfman!* I forgot about that!
Heavy!
I was thinking about how this is the second movie where he makes her cry.
Well why wouldn't he
I'm a big fan of Emily Blunt, And this is a horrible way to ask for an Autograph
Im dead, 😂 i was just in that part of the vid
Come on man🤣☠️
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The way he simultaneously hold the gun to her head ready to kill her without remorse while gently wiping away her tears as if she were his daughter. Brilliant.
Someone else pointed out that Alejandro was just testing her resolve when he threatened to kill her and would have left if she truly refused to sign. It was better that he pressure her than let the CIA handle her if she was going to be going against national policy.
@@wesleywallace4426 so he wasn’t going to kill her?
@@Cookie-monkie93No
@@joshg4953 huh
@@Cookie-monkie93 I was answering your question. He didn't want to kill her, he was basically testing her
Can we all just appreciate the treasure that Benicio Del Toro is. Such a great actor.
Agreed 100
Amen
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For a man with so many defining roles, this one truly stands apart. I think the greatest factor being, he actively chose to cut almost all of his dialogue, telling the director he felt the character needed to be more of a quiet mercenary. It was the choice that probably made this film what it is. The movie gravitates around his pain, which is felt through his utter silence.
Be really is a great actor. One of my favs
"You should move to a small town where the rule of law still exists." How prophetic.
Well spoken Sir
Wind River - Taylor Sheridan's full circle "Rule of Law" fallacy.
Small towns are easy to take over by drug cartels, especially law enforcement. Bigger cities are actually safer in my opinion. Drug money can buy a small police force but not an entire city. This is especially true in border towns.
King justice big disagreement there. Cities have huge amounts of crime and populace, this can be attributed with an analogy like;small countries proportionately to the rule and ruled and much more cohesive. This is why rural parts of America are the only good parts of the country anymore. Everywhere else has been essentially destroyed with huge taxes debts because of government influx into sectors and mass migration that has led to mass amounts of crime and gang members the shittiest place eine America are huge cities. Detritus, Chicago, ny, all bc things like gangs too. Show me gangs in place like the dakotas, utah, oklahoma
@@trevormanfoxy7141 There aren't any drug gangs in Bumfuck, South Dakota because there isn't ANYTHING in Bumfuck, South Dakota at all. Middle America has been in a permanent vegetative state since the American manufacturing industry moved to China; just a whole bunch of barren towns, forgotten by time, with no industry, no jobs, no opportunity, no future. There's a reason why it's called "Flyover Country", and there's a reason why drug gangs don't even bother showing up there-- because there's nothing there to interest them (or anyone, for that matter).
I appreciate Benicio's depiction of a truly broken man throughout this film. Alejandro literally became a shell of a man.
What do you expect to happen when someone cuts off your wife's head and throws your daughter into acid?
@Sammy R. Exactly lol. It bothers me how so many "expert psychologists" watch this movie and claim he is a broken shell of a man. Broken? yes, Shell? No. No one is ever a shell even in the most remote way. A shell of a human is practically impossible because, at that point, they have to be either mind controlled or just a complete vegetable. As long as someone has some semblance of awareness and consciousness, they can never be a "shell"
@Sammy R. Which in a beutifully poetic and tragic way makes you just as much as anyone else no matter how good or bad off the shalloe and deep end "HUMAN". You know why? Because its the human condition, which is to hope. There is not a single humqn who walks this earth that doesnt have hope. In fact hope as complex as it is, is existence in of itslef and defines all that has life. Heck even those who contemplate and commit suicide, have hope. A hope that their departure from this world will lead to a better outcome. No one commits suicide believing they are going to a shittier plane of existence, otherwise they wouldnt even consider it no matter how sad, broken, evil or masochistic they are. It is the beauty and tragedy of hope. If they did, then they are no longer human at that point, because the human consition down to the cells is not inherently self sabotaging.
Sorry for the rant, quarantine is getting to me.
But for real tho, when it comes down to the bare bonr and root of all matters, faith and fear drive all that we do (good, grey, and bad) as human or living things in general.
For example in this movie, even if in the slighest form, Alejandro has an uota of fwith that he will see his wife and daughter again. Thus he is driven to belive that if he exacts revenge for them, he can let them know of he didnt let their death go in vain. At the same time, he is scared and totally afraid of thr world as it is and has no faith it csn be a better one, thus he adopts the mantra of a false wolf as we see he was driven to this state. This same fear drives his motive for revenge since hr is afraid if he doesnt do this, the death of his wife and daughter will be in vain and he choose to fall deeper into an emotionless state as e is intrinsically aafraid to get his heart ripped out again. Okay thats enough lol
orhema oluga fair fucks
@@awwayethatguy Aye
I wonder if a CIA person watched this and said, "yup, standard protocal."
How many shifted in their seats during this scene, cause they had to order some person to be killed cause they WOULDNT keep their mouth shut, just like Kate? Those people exist too
@@booqrdoit9138 psychopaths don't shift in their seats
I can neither confirm nor deny whether this is SOP.
@@cenoviopereira8603 they are neither psychopaths or killers they are Soldiers working Government agency they are secret soldiers NOT a killers. And that's the job they are doing.
@@booqrdoit9138 lol loose lips sink ships!
"as your attorney... i would recommend not standing on balconies... and to rent a very fast car with no top."
anotherbored genius lmfaoooo
and don't take any guff from these swine.
Don't stop here! This is bat country!
anotherbored genius we’re gonna have to arm ourselves. TO THE TEETH!!
this got me bro hahaha
There is a message underneath.
The fact that Alehandro says "you remind me of the daughter they took from me" or a bit earlier "you're like a little girl when you're scared" it is not a coincidence. For him Kate is the closest thing to the daughter he lost and the only person who can judge him. Alejandro knows that he has cross the line multiple times and he is probably a monster at this point. He has even kill children in cold blood, and he's about to put a gun in her head in order to achieve what he wants. So, after everything is over and the last nail has been put to the coffin with Kate signing the papers, it is time for judgement. He breaks the gun down to pieces instead of taking it, and gives time to Kate to put it back together. Kate takes the gun and goes to the balcony. Everything has been planned by Alejandro until this point. Remember what is the first thing he says at the beginning of the scene " you shouldn't go outside to the balcony Kate" you can see the father daughter relationship between them. Father says something then the child does the opposite. And then all of a sudden Alejandro stops for no reason and turns around. He knows that Kate will be there and turns to listen the verdict of his dead daughter. And the daughter although she is angry with her father she forgives him because she understands.
best take ive read in multiple comment sections. especially love the "child does the opposite" because yes thats what kate did earlier by going into the bank!
The cartel boss even asking him if his wife would approve what he had become, and his daughter too... Make senses with what you wrote here. She does approve. Brilliant, truly.
This was a good take
I love this interpretation
Benicio can look like Pitt in one angle and Angry Joe in another.
Lmao
this is one of the funniest comments on UA-cam
The love child of bradpitt and angry joe as a badass
"Brad Pitt with Adobo Seasoning"
Fucking Angry Joe aw hell naw don't do Benicio like that 😂
In your typical Hollywood film, this final confrontation with Kate wouldn't generate much suspense because you could safely assume that the compulsory sentimentality of the studio will keep him from shooting her. Not so in this case. Alejandro has already murdered a woman and her children on screen, so you go into this scene knowing that he's capable of anything, not knowing whether Kate will live or die. In fact, I'm convinced that's the main reason why the writers had him shoot the wife and kids. Really brilliant screenplay.
Good point
According to Blunt, the script had a different ending, so her, Del Toro and Villeneuve sat for two hours reworking it to this scene.
The pistol wasn't in battery. When Alejandro disassembled it no round fell out. He knew that when he held it to her head. He wasn't going to kill her, her conscience was going to do all the work.
I have no doubt if Graver had told him to kill Kate, he would have, but in this instance, he had no reason nor real desire to do so. The gun was so at any point she could tell herself "He had a gun to my head."
That's my take on it anyway.
In a typical Hollywood film there would be an elaborate set, CGI, and an overbearing Hans Zimmer soundtrack. Director Villeneuve needs nothing of the sort.
@@encinobalboa its kinda funny you say that since Dune was directed by Villeneuve, and the music was by Hans Zimmer lol, but I get what you mean
Her performance here is so great. So much emotion conveyed with so few words. All just facial expression.
I’ve seen tons of people say her character was useless in the movie, and I’m like, did we even watch the same movie! She is great in this movie, and leaving her out of the sequel is kind of a baffling decision, she is very necessary for the overall tone and message of the movie.
@@jandcstopmotion7774 Making a sequel at all was a baffling decision. Everything that needed to be said was said in this film. No need for a sequel
@IveGotToast it was a fun spin-off
He freaking turns towards her in order to give her a wider target to hit. Dude is suicidal.
He knew she wouldn’t shoot, she’s not a wolf. Also I think there more meaning to him stand square in front of her. Moments before she demonstrated that she is not willing to die and he was showing her he was and further proving she isn’t cut out for this line of work.
@@christopherharrison9981 That's why she ended up moving to a small town where the rule of law still exists and didn't appear in the sequel. At least, I don't think she was in the sequel. I haven't seen it yet. Silly me.
@@deme9873 it's not a sequel it's an athology .
@@deme9873 it's not a sequel it's an athology .
@@dotexe4738 You're probably right. But, I won't know until I'm not too cheap to BUY the movie on Amazon.
The director was amazing. See how Dels character is constantly in the dark while Emily's character is in the light. These thing play with your mind. Without even understanding this movie someone can see (dont mess with this guy).
Symbolism man. general Audience are not supposed to pick up these things and articulate them, but our unconscious does, whether or not we realize it. Things like Archetypes, Metaphors, Visual Symbolism are very important in movies, it makes us lock in with the characters in a more profound way.
Let's be real here, del Toro should have been the next Batman. I mean, he already is he just wears a black business suit instead of dressing like a flying rodent.
@@starwarsorsomething5703 Sylvia Hoeks, who played Luv in Villeneuve's Bladerunner 2049, is also in The Girl In The Spider's Web. I just watched that this week and it's quite good, I have no idea why it was savaged by audiences and flopped so hard.
Your moms amazing. I know you wrote this comment two years ago. But ur mom lol
@@MrIlovebmw86 bro she is
This is the land of wolves now.
1:29 "You remind me of the daughter, they took away from me."
I know Alejandro did a lot of dreadful things in the movie but when he said that my heart broke for him.
jrkartch god that's true
@@j_f_kyoushallnotbeforgotte2191 I'm one of the Wolves 🐺
Tom Simmo thought you was one of the teddy bears
🔖🗣This is the land of wolves now? If your not a wolve you won't Survive here. 🗡
💯💯💯point on point 💯💯💯
Alejandro's gun is empty. He removes the magazine without ejecting a round, then disassembles it - you can't do that without the chamber being empty or putting a round through the drywall. Take the meaning for that of what you will, but I don't know many assassins who would intentionally approach an armed target with an empty chamber.
May be an armorer mistake, but Villeneuve is a thoughtful director. I doubt he would put that kind of detail into the movie by mistake.
It's her own sidearm, that's why he left it behind. But you're right, he never racked the slide, so perhaps he just knew that intimidation alone would be enough to persuade Kate.
@@mrkwns24 I dunno, maybe - it's hard to tell if that's Alejandro's Glock 17 or Kate's Glock 19. (Leaning towards a G19, but hard to tell with the dark room and camera angles) Again, it seems kind of odd for an assassin to not bring his own gun, or for a cop to keep her gun condition 3... I personally think that Alejandro did not particularly want to kill her, because he is being sincere when he says she reminds him of his daughter. But it's hard to tell what's going on in that man's head.
@Rosalyn - remember when he put the gun under her chin and says that "that would be suicide Kate" ? It was her gun, and confirmed as first guy said, he leaves it behind
@@rosalynnought2590 obviously it was her gun. he wouldnt leave his gun behind. also suicide makes sense with her own gun. he didnt want to kill her but would have
It makes perfect sense. He compares her to his daughter twice in this movie. I doubt he was looking to kill even a representation of his daughter. We've seen Alejandro be a dog in somebody else war but only for his own ends. I think Alejandro came to test her. Ready her. He came to show her what would come if she didn't sign. A warning. Whether she signed the paper or not he would of walked without killing her.
has got to be one of the best movies i ever watched
And most unrealistic
@@jaimejimenez4223 go back to watching Atomic Blonde, which is obviously the “realism” you crave.
@@jaimejimenez4223 what are your issues with it? I’m genuinely curious
@@jaimejimenez4223 you seem fun.
@@jaimejimenez4223 got his fairy tail buble burst by this movie.
This scene is incredible, the way he looks at her in the end ...
He even turns to her so that if she really wanted to kill him, don't miss the shot, the pistol in her hands, trembling, because she realizes that he's needed to clean the shit in this world and of course, she wouldn't commit a cold murder that way, INCREDIBLE.
MP RPO
And we do have Donald Trump.
@pimpninja1985 bunch of fucking retards. Bonespur/deferment donnie isn't man enough to not cheat at golf.
Actually, I'm pretty sure the whole point of the film is that it was all meaningless. This is perfectly symbolised by the ACTUAL ending, where the son of the corrupt cop who was unjustly and unmercifully killed goes to the soccer game, and then........ gunfires again. They look at it for a while, and just continue to play. All they did was killing one guy for personal vendetta, and another is soon to take place anyway. The main character of the movie is truly the moral core, meant to be the audience's surrogate: she experiences things from the outside, hoping that it would ultimately lead to somewhere, that it would be useful.... but it's not. At the end of the film, nothing is changed.
pimpninja1985 God help us all now
@@filmtajm35 The fat fuck wasn't man enough to fight for his country when it needed him; he wasn't even man enough to be a conscientious objector and face the consequences of his actions. He hid behind his daddy and had him pay off some doctor. Funny how you people buy into such a blatantly fake "tough guy" act with such ease.
Alejandro's character is truly terrifying in this movie. Not just because he's a trained killer and ruthless. But more that he's a man with nothing to live for except revenge. And no matter how many he kills, he will never be satisfied because it will never bring his daughter back. I think the beauty in this scene, and overall movie, is the contrast between Emily blunt's character and Del Toro's. Kate wants to do everything by the book and Alejandro does nothing by the book. Yet, Alejandro's character is the one who's actually able to make a difference in the drug war. To live and kill amongst the wolves, you have to become one yourself
You're not wrong. However, I've always found the "it'll never bring them back" trope such a piss poor counter argument. It's practically an insult to someone's intelligence because it implies they're stupid enough to believe someone will miraculously come back to life once the murderer is dead.
Lol I wasn’t implying that Alejandro thought that in a literal sense. I was just using it to explain that the pain of losing his daughter is something that can never be rectified. Therefore no amount of killing will be enough
@@mrs.tremond3313 Apologies, I wasn't accusing you of implying that at all. It was just a side note sort of thing.
@@tech-bore8839 Gotcha. No worries
Wasn’t he a lawyer for the cartel
He's a broken man that has lost his entire family. A man that you would think no longer feels. But in fact he does.His way of dealing with his loss ,is to distinguish everything responsible for that loss.What ever happens in between, "so be it ". His mission continues how ever long he wishes it to. Such a person is needed in this world to clean up the worst of the worst. Call him a broken Saint.
@syd bohne well said my man .
Pretty much like Batman.
You are exactly right! Not everybody watching this can see the deeper meaning.
@@heyitsmeLarryFNJ not at ALL. Batman is an idealist- he doesn't kill- Benicio's character kills women and children, because he has been twisted by the so called "reality" of things: and people celebrate his character because they think that because the world is evil, it demands such action. I think such people miss the point of this movie: the fact that you become a monster in dealing with monstrosity actually means that monstrosity is not the solution to itself.
Did he not kill two kids?
The chemistry between these two is so real, tense and thick, it feels like you can actually touch it. Precious
Only me, however, hope Kate will take her revenge on Alejandro?
This is truly one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. Everything about it is absolutely perfect. By this point Alejandro is so broken, so beaten-down, that we can not understand his true intentions. He has already cemented himself as someone who is capable of killing her, yet he remains to calm, gentle, and almost monotone throughout this scene. The way he masks his true emotions, and therefor his intentions, is absolutely incredible on Del Toro's part and the directing alike. When he turns to her in the end and faces the gun, even then his intentions are somewhat hidden. Is he mocking her in a way, knowing that she does not have the courage to pull the trigger? Or is he in fact so battered, so broken, that he does not care by that point whether he lives or dies?
Only me, however, hope Kate will take her revenge on Alejandro?
Beautifully stated. It's one of my favorite scenes of all time as well, for all the reasons you mentioned. Masterful in every single way.
I think the latter
The movie is garbage but yes that scene is good.
That's one interpretation. Alejandro is a broken man in the sense that his former life has been taken but he fights back in a way that goes against his former self. His sense of justice has morphed from prosecuting within the system to taking matters into his own hands but he never crosses the line of offing a good guy. Alejandro was never going to pull the trigger on Kate after telling her she reminded of his daughter. This statement reveals his feelings and respect for Kate born of her resisting him. At the end when he faces Kate and gives Kate the opportunity to shoot him, he is willing to accept his fate for what he has done. This is masterful film making. No elaborate sets. No music. Just two outstanding professional actors immersed in their roles.
Notice the lighting. Emily Blunt is brightly lit, warm, good heart. Benicio is dark, shadowy, slightly evil. As he pushes her to sign it the camera comes much closer to Emily as well, shows her being pressured and trapped. Really cool stuff.
One of the greatest movies in the last 15 years. Period.
Pointing the gun at her probably saved her a lifetime of guilt for choosing to make the operation legal, she was going to sign that paper willingly and Alejandro knew that this would have killed her, so he “took that choice away from her” by putting a gun to her head even though he probably would have never pulled that trigger.
he absolutely would have pulled that trigger.
Great observation, didn’t think about this
@@saltMagic But then who would’ve signed it?
@@saltMagic i saw another comment that he left the gun unloaded on purpose so there was no threat of either of them being shot in this scene
@@saltMagicshe resembled his daughter. Nobody knows whether he would have.
Man, forgot how powerful this scene was. Great acting. He was both dangerously threatening and gentle with her. When he gently held and stroked her hand and wiped her tears away - and even in the way he spoke to her. You believed He could have loved her deeply or killed her just the same. He was a shell of a man now, a ghost, a demon- and even revenge did not “cure” him. He had become something else in his journey to avenge his family: a wolf- the ugly truth. Maybe this is who he really was just underneath. He was an attorney and now he’s a hired assassin. Kate was completely broken at this point after her experiences. New respect for her acting also. I’m not sure if they received any awards for this movie because of it’s very dark nature, but they deserved academy awards for these very intense scenes.
i watched this film and i have no idea what happened or what you’re talking about 😭
How does he transition from top lawyer to Jason Bourne style assassin? Nevertheless it was a great movie.
@@buzzcutseason142 sounds like you need to rewatch.
@@illwitness maybe he training hard asf and the thoughts of his wife head and his daughter in barrel of acid do help his motivay
@@acap4395 sure, I get that but damn that’s a crazy back story.
Can't wait till part 3 comes out...
When is it coming
If emily brunt decides to come back
Qwentin Greer why would she come back...she wasn’t in part 2. If the rumors are true she’s got bigger things on the horizon
@@247Lilboy I'm sure with her character on the 3rd movie. I got a feeling things are gonna be different.
@@qwentingreer6793 God I hope her character is not in it. We'll just see a lot of screen time her trying to take down their shady operation while coping with PTSD.
He gave her the stare of wolf at the end.
Because he's "The Wolfman".
Not really,yes he gave a stare of a wolf BUT he also gave a stare saying "you have my permission to kill me" bad ass man he is.
Woman, didn't he say to you "don't you ever point a gun at me again"?
The woman and the incompetence she brings is actually the villian in the movie. Spoiler.
Chad Tyrone A common theme in Taylor Sheridan’s work is that there are no villains or heroes. Everybody on this earth is bad, some people just try harder to be good. She tried the hardest to be good and morally bound. It didn’t work out. Doesn’t make her incompetent.
He also tells her to not stand on balconys and she goes out there again anyway. Shes not good at following directions
Tapiture that may have been the Director’s idea, but it doesn’t mean the character wasn’t pathetically incompetent
@@chadtyrone5066 Thanks for the spoiler. Now I can unread your previous sentence.
Amazing acting, great cinematography, awesome storyline = Masterpiece
I love the raw emotion this scene has. At the very end when Kate goes to shoot Alejandro she realizes two things: That the world is a world of wolves now like he said and Alejandro is needed to clean up that world and that not shooting him in cold blood is what separates her from him. If she had shot him she'd be just as bad as he is.
I agree Nick. And perhaps Alejandro, without saying it out loud or admitting it out loud, respects her morals even though he doesn't work the way she does
I interpreted the scene as if she realized she had been just lied to, again; the whole “you remind me of my daughter they killed” was just a bunch of BS, to get her to sign the document. Her whole existence on the team was a loophole/excuse for the CIA to operate domestically.
Shooting him here wouldn’t have been in cold blood. He was there to kill her, he forced her at gunpoint to lie and break her internal code, not to mention he’s a hired killer for the Columbian drug cartel and she’s an FBI agent.
I think that its more than her thinking that he's needed to clean up the mess.
She probably felt sorry for him and didn't think that she could kill him for whatever he did.
But also, she doesn’t have the guts to do so.
No needless music in this scene until the very end. The tension says it all
Thee acting is fantastic. Brolin, Blunt, Del Toro. I love this film so much. My friend in London watched it for the first time last night. He went crazy. He said the best film he has seen. I just want number 3. Soldado was good. Benecio is one of the greatest.
Anton chigur vs this guy
look at little goblin Jr this guy wins.
Ouuuu 🤔
Now that would be an amazing showdown I would love to see!
This guy wins easy
If this was a join universe, They'd probably be related..
This has got to be some of the best acting I have ever seen, especially by Emily Blunt
This movie was absolutely perfect in so many ways. Del is one amazing actor. Because of this movie I went through his entire filmography and always see his new work since. Emily also killed it, but Thanos, woah, Thanos snapped off.
Love this movie, one of my all time favorites.
The last scene reminds me a lot of the ending of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
No words. Just cinematography.
He walks in strength, wisdom, and righteousness.
"We get dirty so the world stays clean. That's the mission". Captain Price. That's pretty much the message this movie is telling us. Sometimes you need fire to fight fire.
Imagine not being able to pick up on subtext
The message of the movie is that war makes us all into beasts.
The fact that Alejandro murdered a woman and two children in cold blood REALLY should have made that clear.
OP you missed the point
That he says, 'You remind me of my daughter' yet has no problem to threaten her, shows just how much he himself is dead. He died when they killed his wife and daughter.
When he said ‘you would be committing suicide Kate’ me and my dad just looked at each other like, ‘shiiiiiiitttt’ 😂
No one asked
@@No-bi3pb what a asshole
@@No-bi3pb don’t know if you noticed but this is a free comment section
@@No-bi3pb wtf bro. You must be fun at parties, No?
@@No-bi3pb kid named No One:
I love how Benicio hide in the dark,as the wolves he talk about. One of my favourite movies ever
I like how his background is mostly dark except for the kitchen light. Like hes all dark but is secretly or justifiably good?.....or he belongs in the kitchen
I like to think that Matt was 100% down with having her "disappeared" and Alejandro talked him into giving her this one last chance.
She knows we need people like him
A lot people pointed out the gun was probably empty which is a good detail to catch. Another one I haven't seen pointed out yet is, he's such a good hitman/sicario when he told Kate it would be suicide if she didnt sign, he held the gun exactly how it would be positioned if she herself pulled the trigger, bottom of gun facing her left side (pretty sure kate is right handed). From his position this is an awkward way to fire so it reveals hes keenly aware to make it look like a suicide from the correct position of where the gun would fired. Great attention to detail by the director as its such a small detail if he held it normally it would be fine (no one would notice) but since it's part of his character they made sure to do it correctly. Insane small detail.
“You’re not a wolf. And these are the lands of the wolves now.”
Funny. He was one in a movie ten years ago.
1:27 notice after how he closes his eyes and opens them back up after he mentions that Emily reminds him of his daughter. It’s almost like he closes that door immediately, and the Wolf comes out again. Felt really bad for Alejandro.
Very good observation. I’ve watched the scene a dozen times and never noticed this
The only realistic hitman in cinema who I think can defeat Anton Chigurh.
I cant stop watching this movie
This movie is soo captivating
that ending is so good... i mean the whole scene is, but kate being unable to shoot and instead of alejandro appealing to her empathy by showing her the back as in "you won't shoot a unsuspecting, unarmed target" after turning, he fully turns and is facing her like "bring it on, you don't have the balls to push through like we have". then she lowers her gun and proves his point: she is not a wolf.
The best part is that the movie never frames Kate as wrong for not being a wolf. Alejandro is one, but his life is horrible on very different levels because of all the conditions that turned him in one of the wolfs.
It’s almost as if he was trying to turn her into the monster he is. But when she didn’t succumb to his way of thinking just goes to show there are still good people in this world. Just like Wanda Maximoff
I think it's more like "Go ahead, I have nothing left to lose".
@@shingnosis "You can pull the trigger on me, but we both know this will do no one justice."
Also Kate's finger was off the trigger the whole time. She knew it too.
True. He is right. She is not a wolf and doesn't belong in scenarios like the ones she went through in the film. Still, I have a small feeling that Alejandro silently envies her morals. He was on a mission to avenge his family, and he probably feels like he's too far gone. If I were in his shoes, I would completely envy her morals. He did her a favor, and maybe she did move off to a small-town where law exist and should. If he hadn't of done what he did in the apartment, she would have hounded him, and that might have bended her.....not what he wanted for her.
"You're not a wolf. This is the land of wolves now." The phrase speaks truths.
Benicio Del Toro is so incredible, man. What a great movie.
God ..she acts sooo well
The way he takes a seat next to her is a throwback to the beginning of the film when he shoves his crouch in that guys face in the interrogation room.
So subtle and subliminal
Sometimes doing the right thing is getting dirty, she was pure in the way she applied the rule of law and standard operational procedures but drug cartel war is a different battlefield where laws is just a piece of paper, nothing more nothing less and it gets more complicated to Alejandros personal grief and dread to revenge his family taken down by the cartel boss. I think justice is better served this way but you have to be sure and exact with your revenge and think of the consequences later.
Was she pure, or just selfish?
Both ways she is.
@@nikolaizetrov617 By knowingly letting 1000's of innocents die for the sake of killing a few selected ''bad guys'' because of her own selfish view of whats right or wrong, that's not pure that's evil!
On her own perspective she blindly complies to what is implemented by her government not knowing that it was not enough to stop the Cartel because she never had the experience and motivation that Alejandro has. If she had been through what Alejandro had experience in the hands of those bastards it will be a different story, she may even end up aiding Alejandro thus making the cartel boss and his family meeting God earlier than it used to be hahaha.
@Lina Lina She never followed orders... she was ordered to go along with it, that the rules have changed, but her selfish ''moral compass'' wouldn't allow her to see the greater good...
The way he turns and Faces her completely accepting his fast with out any hesitation shows you how much pain his character was really in
Legend has it, that the gun is still shaking from that stare down!
Epic ending to an epic movie!
Such a tense moment in the movie...i will never get over how amazing this movie is
One of this century's most brilliant movies. Period.
You’re not a wolf. And this this is the land of wolves now. G shit right there.
What a phenomenal scene.
He knows she won't kill him, but frankly, it doesn't matter if she does.
Only me, however, hope Kate will take her revenge on Alejandro?
@@giosy0072she can’t , cuz deep deep down she knows that Alejandro is dealing with something beyond her understanding, no matter how hard she tries to understand.
Some of the best acting I have ever seen
A fabulous piece of moviemaking.
The way he goes back and forth from tender to menacing is very intense. Great scene great movie
There is a moment at 5:21 where it appears as if she has a red dot on her cheek. And yes, I know she is crying but in that split second, it appears to be a red dot that fades out eventually. I don't know if this was intentional or lighting. It could just be tears but I have just never seen tears reflect light in that manner, but what do I know about film light, right? Either way, this was a brilliant way to end this film. Del Toro's character, Alejandro, is a broken man who continues his downward spiral in the next film. I cannot wait for the third installment of this series. Alejandro's character has become a sort of John Wick of the Sicario world.
I love that her setting down the pen after signing the document is almost like the sound of the gun going off. Like by giving in and not staying true to her morals she metaphorically "died".
The music for this scene is spot on!
This isn't the ending scene, but the penultimate scene. The last scene is with the kids at the football pitch, with the gunfire and haunting music that reminds us that even after all is said and done, nothing changes in Mexico.
Emily Blunt is fucking underappreciated, especially in this film. This movie gets the disparity of strength between men & women. No sugar-coated scenes , pure realism
shes not a victim she is well appreciated her networth is over 80 million dollars.... soooo lol
Who here is hella excited to see Dune… same director.
del toro is cold as ice. he's not good and he'd not bad. i just love how he's a matter of fact guy and nothing will get in his way.
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I love the final scene. Shows the aftermath from another point of view and that they have to face it every day.
This is the great action movie of our era.
A man with nothing to lose is a very dangerous man.
I do not believe Alejandro is being at all tender in this scene. He is cunning, manipulative, and ruthless. He is only trying to further weaken her already damaged emotional state. The more cracks he can put in her, the more he can manipulate her. Otherwise he would not have broken into her apartment. If this were not the case, Matt or one of her FBI friends would have gone to her. She has a strong moral compass and she needed to be manipulated into signing it.
No, he's giving her a way out and forcing her hand into signing it. He's also proud of her not getting into the dirt with him when she refuses to fire - he sees a pure soul and one that got out of this without being corrupted. It's a brutal way of getting her out of this mess, but he helped her.
I love how he respects her enough at the end to turn to face her bullet, making himself as a target easier for her to hit, the calculation that she wont take the shot before he then turns to walk away is utterly ice cold. She's spent, she wants out, her story is over.
I dont think it was calculation she wouldnt take the shot. I think he was prepared to die and probably wanted to..at this point he's kinda like Chighur in No Country For Old Men.....more like a force of nature than human. His family is gone and he has nothing to live for except perpetual vengence. When death finally comes to him he'll welcome it. It just didn't this time.
@@nic-tv4090I agree with your analysis.
@@nic-tv4090agreed
I like what someone else said, it wasn't calculation. He was looking for judgement, would his dead daughter kill him for what he did in the name of vengeance? Her reply was she would be upset but she wouldn't condemn him.
Really love the way they kept that tension without any ambient.
i like how half of Alejandro's face is darkened by the shadows and Kates' is fully visible. Might be reading too much in to it but i think it signifies their own personalities.
one of the rare times, in modern film, you see Brando on screen. and I don't mean he copies him, in any way - at all.
Emily Blunt was so good in Sicario.
The Grieving Lawyer is such a badass nickname for Del Toro’s character.
Waiting for Sicario 3 ..hope it comes out soon....
5:33 there’s nothing behind those eyes.
You probably know him as Dario from Licence To Kill: 007.
(1989).
You know, Sanchez's right hand man.
You can see that Alejandro is really a broken man. He has nothing left to loose. When Kate points the gun at him I think she realizes that. Also that fact that it probably won’t play out in her favor killing him.
If this isn’t one of the best movies ever made, then I don’t know what is.
His lost gaze and how he shambles after he turns away...
This scene is so rich and intense. An exceptionally well crafted scene!
I love Benicio’s outfit there. Good job, always underrated costume designers
Great scene AWESOME movie
John Whick VS Alejandro
Alejandro would beat Keanu Reeves scrawny ass
@@norpriest521 i dont think so
@@Sp00kyBoiii yeah Keanu has way too much plot armour
Sam fisher vs Alejandro vs john wick vs frank castle.
I think that, of all the ways in which Alejandro can die, being killed by Kate in those circumstances is the one that bothers him the least. So he turns to look at her with a clear conscience, as if dying at her hands were a less unworthy end than he hopes in the future.
Alejandro is such a a terrifying asset. When he was in the interrogation room with the cartel goon, he "seck-shoe-lee" assaulted that dude. Here he goes from saying she reminds him of his daughter to a split second later having zero issue deleting her.
Alejandro respects Kate even more because she resists.
Benecio 💙💙 hottest man on the planet!
Uh no, my mom said i'm the most handsome man in the world. My gran said it too.
I don't get the complaints about Kate in this movie "oh she's too weak, she doesn't do ninja moves, she gets beat up all the time" that's the entire point and this moment encapsulated that, Kate isn't supposed to be the rock in the stream she starts out that way but slowly throughout the film she gets beat up and spit out to the point where in this scene she's completely abandoned her morals, she's a totally different person from the start and end of this movie she starts out by the book and tries to stay that way but throughout the film she realizes it's futile and this place is just not her speed Alejandro was telling her the truth, she does not belong there plain and simple
I completely agree. And for all we know, as much as Alejandro's methods can be dirty yet are more progressive and get things done, perhaps he silently envies Kate's morals. His are all out the window, and hers are still tied strong to her heart.