Sicario: Day of the Soldado
In an action atmosphere, the movie is considered as a sequel to the 2015 film Sicario, where the war against drugs escalates along the borders of the United States of America and Mexico.
21 March 1965, New Mexico, USA
22 December 1949, Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
12 February 1968, Santa Monica, California, USA
25 February 1981, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
25 June 1987, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
June 29, 2018
Stefano Sollima's superior follow-up is a horror story posing as a tactical military thriller, all callous political maneuvering, senseless bloodshed and unachieved ambitions, set to bass-heavy braying and industrial noise.
June 29, 2018
As if in imitation of the ruthless Mexican drug cartel its heroes go after, director Stefano Sollima's sequel decapitates, disembowels, and castrates Denis Villeneuve's beautiful, tough, and sad 2015 original.
June 28, 2018
{Soldado] dithers away into subplots, including one that is ludicrously contrived and seems designed to continue the franchise.
June 29, 2018
Sicario 2 is far more complex. It shows the effect on children, the moral dilemma that "the good guys" ... and it does not come off as popcorn entertainment, but a disturbing exploration.
June 29, 2018
Day of the Soldado is convoluted enough that you can almost enjoy it for Brolin and Del Toro's hypnotic acting and ignore the ever-present cloud of noxious politics, and there are times you wonder if it's xenophobic or just nihilistic.
June 29, 2018
"Day of the Soldado" is at its best when it sticks to its own raw brand of truth.
June 29, 2018
There are moments that are quite tense, but as a whole, ideologically, I don't know what this movie is trying to say--I don't know that its that coherent.
June 29, 2018
[A] kinetic, incoherent but great-looking flick.
June 29, 2018
Sequel looks into the abyss-and flinches away
June 28, 2018
At its mean, snakelike best, it's also a brutally assured commercial action picture, unburdened by the moral qualms or unnerving ambiguity of its predecessor.
June 29, 2018
Somber and savage, as sinister and intense as the nightly news from McAllen, Texas.
June 29, 2018
The carnage in Day of the Soldado becomes numbing to such a degree that it's hard to care about what happens next.
