| Directed by | Denis Villeneuve |
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| Written by | Taylor Sheridan |
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| Music by | Jóhann Jóhannsson |
| Cinematography | Roger Deakins |
| Edited by | Joe Walker |
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| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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| 121 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
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| Budget | $30 million[2] |
| Box office | $43.6 million |
During a kidnapping raid in Chandler, Arizona, idealistic FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt), her partner Reggie Wayne (Daniel Kaluuya), and the rest of her team discover dozens of corpses within the walls of a house along with an IED in the backyard shed, which kills two officers. Her boss, Dave Jennings (Victor Garber), recommends her to Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), a CIA SAD officer and Department of Justice adviser leading a team of Delta Force operators who are searching for the men responsible, one of them being cartel boss Manuel Díaz (Bernardo P. Saracino). Kate agrees to volunteer, eager to finally make a difference.
On the plane to El Paso, Texas, Kate meets Matt's partner, Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) who seems to be having nightmares. She learns en route that they will actually be going to Juárez, Mexico instead, where they will extract a prisoner, Guillermo, one of Díaz's top men, for questioning. While crossing back into the United States over the Bridge of the Americas, Matt, Alejandro, and their team realize cartel thugs are attempting to intercept them in a traffic jam, and the team is forced to kill the cartel men when they get out of their cars and attempt to capture Guillermo. Kate is appalled by the lack of concern for civilian safety and procedure, especially when operating outside of their jurisdiction, but Matt tells her that's how they have to operate against the cartel. After interrogating and torturing Guillermo, Matt and Alejandro learn the details of Díaz's hideout.
While Alejandro and Matt question a group of Mexican migrants for more information, Kate calls Reggie to join her, also acting as emotional support. With the help of several of the migrants who know the U.S.-Mexico border well, they tell Alejandro and Matt the exact whereabouts of a tunnel that the cartel uses to get its drugs into the United States. When Kate and Reggie demand answers, Matt tells them that their goal is to cause such a disruption in Díaz's drug operations that he will be called down to Mexico to meet with his boss. Matt and his team are interested in finding Díaz's boss, drug lord Fausto Alarcón (Julio Cedillo), who he said no-one can find because he "is a ghost." Matt then moves ahead by following Díaz's money launderers to the bank where they deposit his money and are then arrested. Díaz's accounts are then frozen. Kate, believing they can arrest Díaz with this information, gets records of the transactions, but Matt forbids her from going forward, telling her that they are working toward a bigger goal than just arresting Díaz. After reporting this to Dave, he tells her that he has no authority in what Matt's team is doing, but that if she is worried about operating outside the boundaries, the boundaries have expanded and she is no longer bound by the same laws as she was while working only for the FBI.
Infuriated, Kate and Reggie drink at a bar, where he introduces her to one of his colleagues, a local cop named Ted (Jon Bernthal). As they begin to have sex in her apartment, she discovers a rubber wristband in his possession of the same type that was used to bundle Díaz's laundered money. Trying to restrain him, a struggle ensues, which ends with Ted nearly killing Kate, but Alejandro, alerted by the noise, stops him and beats him. After Alejandro and Matt threaten the lives of his family and himself, Ted gives the names of all other local cops working for Díaz.
The next morning, Matt and his team prepare to follow Díaz, who has been called back to Alarcón. Under the cover of night, they raid the tunnel, which is really just a distraction so that Alejandro can sneak through to the other side. Once there, he kidnaps one of Díaz's mules, a Mexican police officer named Silvio (Maximiliano Hernández), who refers to Alejandro as "Medellín." Kate follows Alejandro against her orders, and manages to overhear this. She attempts to arrest Alejandro, who shoots her in her bulletproof vest and tells her to return to the U.S. Alejandro then drives away with Silvio. At the entrance, Kate attacks Matt, demanding answers. Matt explains that their goal is to restore power to the Colombian Medellín Cartel. By returning control of the drug trade to a single cartel, there can be some semblance of order, and that is the best that the U.S. can hope for at this time.
Alejandro and Silvio manage to catch up with Díaz, and after Silvio pulls Díaz over and makes him discard his weapon, Alejandro kills Silvio and wounds Díaz. Díaz then drives Alejandro to Alarcón's estate where Alejandro kills Díaz and Alarcón's guards before finding Alarcón and his family eating dinner. Alarcón, who had brutally murdered Alejandro's wife and daughter when Alejandro was a prosecutor in Juárez, mocks Alejandro at first, asking him if the cartel is really any different than the Colombian cartel he now works for and if Alejandro's wife would approve of the man he has become. Alejandro shoots Alarcón's wife and two sons in front of him so Alarcón can experience the same sense of loss as Alejandro before he too is finally shot by Alejandro.
The next morning, Alejandro sneaks back into Kate's apartment, where he gives her a waiver to sign stating that everything they did together was "by the book." Ashamed and dishonored, she refuses, but finally relents when Alejandro puts her own gun to her head, telling her that she would be committing suicide if she does not. Before he leaves, he tells Kate she should move to a small town, where the rule of law still exists, as she is not cut out for his line of work. Kate then points her gun at him from her balcony, and after he stops and turns to face her, she lowers her weapon, allowing Alejandro to walk away.
In Mexico, Silvio's now-widowed wife attends her son's soccer game, which is briefly interrupted by gunfire heard in the distance.
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