‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ is a Mixed Bag
It could’ve been worse and should’ve been better.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado takes us into an elaborate plan by the U.S. government to stop human trafficking across the border.
Sicario is a really tremendous film. Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins combine to create a beautiful visual style, even with all of the action and bloody violence. The story is engrossing and the characters are interesting to follow.
Was a sequel necessary? No. But that didn’t stop this from being made. Even with Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro reprising their roles, there was little chance of this sequel measuring up to the first film.
While there are elements of this film that aren’t great, I honestly expected worse.
For some reason, Sicario: Day of the Soldado starts with something that you’d expect to see playing on a loop on Fox News. We see some suicide bombers detonate bombs at various parts of the U.S., creating panic. The powers that be do an investigation and determine that these bombers were trafficked into this country. Declaring the drug cartels to be terrorists, the government enlists Matt Graver (Brolin) to solve this problem.
What a choice for a set-up. Surely, there had to have been a better way to set the stage for…
