The one saving grace of Sicario is the considerable talent of cinematographer Roger Deakins, who continually finds new, striking images to couch all the action in:
breathtaking aerial shots that fittingly transform the border zone into some hugely elaborate model, the green - tinged night - vision shots that accompany the team taking over a cartel tunnel, the impenetrable sea of dust a bomb blast carries in its wake.
The fidelity of the artwork is eye - watering in places; a narrow alley in a shanty town can be just as
breathtaking in its detail as the vertiginous,
aerial establishing
shot that runs under the credits.