The sound design of this film is flat out amazing, some of the best I have truly ever had the pleasure to experience. Also remarkable is the use of helicopter shots which don't feel like connective tissue, but actually part of the organic, that's something really hard to pull off.

Deakins does it again, once more playing with a lot of blacks and shadows and once more succeeding one hundred percent. All of this is achieved thanks to probably the best cinematography of this whole year. The movie has a way to throw you into the action that is really rare to find, especially in a highway sequence where I literally felt I was there. You are always on the edge of your seat and in some occasions you are really biting your knuckles. I truly marvel at how this film is so tightly put together and even despite it faults, which it has, especially in script, it just never gives you a chance to breathe and take it all in, thanks to the atmosphere that is established from shot one until the last one, you are always anticipating something's going to happen and that is the sign you are watching a great thriller.

With this Denis Villenueve has now consolidated his name as one of most important and gifted directors of our time and has shown us he is here to stay. One of those select few thrillers that will have your eyes stuck to the screen from the opening credits to the very end, and I mean that literally: I changed my sitting position many times during the film, yet I clearly recall never ever turning my head away from the film, this is how intense it is.

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