Sicario: Day of the Soldado - Film Review
Plot
The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the war, federal agent Matt Graver re-teams with the mercurial Alejandro.
Review
Movie's been out for almost a month, so I'm talking spoilers.
Why exactly did we need a Sicario sequel? Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but Sicario didn't need a sequel.
One thing I was wondering about was how they were going to do this movie without Emily Blunt? After watching it, there's really nowhere to put her in the story.
Just like the first movie, it's a pretty brutal movie, there's a scene in the beginning with a supermarket bombing. There is more than that though, there's one character who talks about killing one of his enemies' mother and feeding her to a koi fish.
I gave you the plot above, which was just the IMDb summary, but going more into the plot, it's Matt and Alejandro's team kidnapping Isabela (Isabela Moner), a kingpin's daughter, to make it look like a rival cartel did it so they can encourage a huge war because the U.S. officials Matt spoke to thought this worked with Iraq. And everything that can go wrong does.
Alejandro starts bonding with Isabela, and when everything goes wrong, they want her executed so they can cover up that they had any involvement in this, but Alejandro doesn't want that, so he goes rogue to keep her alive, and she runs away from him, almost gets captured, but thankfully there's Benicio ex machina in here, just like the first one.
So they pretend to be illegal immigrants so they can get Isabel to the U.S. so the CIA can't execute her on American territory. But Miguel (Elijah Rodriguez), recognizes them, calls his boss, abducts them, and forces Miguel to shoot Alejandro, and then they leave with Isabel. Because of his plot armor, Alejandro survives being shot in the dead despite losing a lot of blood and chunks coming out. He wakes up, takes one of the gang's cars, and heads for the border.
Matt and his crew finds Isabela via the GPS tracker that Alejandro puts in her shoe and decides to put her in witness protection instead of killing her. So now we cut to a year later where Miguel is in the mall and Alejandro asks if he wants to be a sicario.
The ending left me wondering what happened after Isabela was put in witness protection, what Alejandro did after driving with a literal hole in his cheek, and what exactly happened during that one year span.
Now let's talk about the characters. Benicio del Toro is back as Alejandro and he is still great in here as he was in this movie. He still doesn't seem like anyone you want to mess with though.
Josh Brolin is also great as Matt in this movie. This is essentially Josh Brolin's year, because he was Thanos, Cable, and now he's Matt again. I would say he's gonna get one huge paycheck at the end of the year but I'm sure he's already got it already. I'm getting off-topic here, but Matt gets permission by the CIA to use extreme measures in the fight against Mexican drug cartels and he teams up with Alejandro again.
Isabela Moner is good as Isabela, but I pretty much talked about her already.
Elijah Rodriguez is ok as Miguel. I didn't even remember his name until looking him up for this review, and all I really remember is that he wants to be a coyote (human trafficking), is forced to kill Alejandro, leaves his gang after this, and a year later he's met by Alejandro who asks him if he wamts to become a sicario.
And the other cast is fine, not much to comment about.
Overall, Sicario: Day of the Soldado is a fine sequel to Sicario. I did like it but Sicario didn't really need a sequel.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado gets a 7.5/10.
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