Film Review: Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Cert: 15
Director: Stefano Sollima
Screenwriter: Taylor Sheridan
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Catherine Keener, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Matthew Modine, Shea Whigham, Elijah Rodriguez, Howard Ferguson Jr., David Castañeda, Jacqueline Torres, Raoul Max Trujillo, Bruno Bichir, Jake Picking
Running time: 2h 2min
Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity:
Profanity:
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:
Frightening/Intense Scenes: There are scene through this film that is extremely brutal that may be too disturbing for some viewer
Story: 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.
Likes: Damn this sequel hold no punches straight off the bat at the beginning of the film, as were given an extremely brutal an disturbing scene which set the tone for the rest of the film. Sicario is still synonymous with government and cartel vigilante violence along the border of Mexico, which reflects the world today, although some people are still blind to think everyone is friendly. But this in the film is what happens in our own reality every day, with the cartel using traffickers to get drug and people across the border.
Unlike the first film, this time they've up the game by starting a war with all the cartel by framing one group for the kidnapping, Isabela Moner in this film done an incredible performance in a believe characters play a cartel daughter, she really showed this as well in her character attuide.
Agent and former cartel assassin Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) we come to understand a bit more about what he after Isabel Reyes father after he killed his family, the character is more defined in this film as it let loose to cause mayhem.
Amorality rather than soul-searching film, allow the action to dominate the cinematography. The film does have some insight into the chaos of border crossing control, Soldado concentrating on terrorist trafficking rather than drugs, and a brief moment of suspense as Alejandro tries to keep Isabel with him. Tearing the child away obliquely reminds us of the current zero-tolerance controversy on real borders.
But this film is very hard hitting in places what will shock, amaze and keep you entertained throughout the film. I would highly recommend watching this film.
Dislikes: One issue I had with this film, which I think was missed in the editing of the film, was the shop scene, I noticed the window didn't shatter, which in reality the windows would be there any more in that situation. That the only thing I found.
Overall: Reality check on border trafficking, dark brutal scenes and gritty drama action.
Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 9 out of 10 for sequel concept
Cert: 15
Director: Stefano Sollima
Screenwriter: Taylor Sheridan
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Catherine Keener, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Matthew Modine, Shea Whigham, Elijah Rodriguez, Howard Ferguson Jr., David Castañeda, Jacqueline Torres, Raoul Max Trujillo, Bruno Bichir, Jake Picking
Running time: 2h 2min
Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity:
- Women wear shirts revealing cleavage.
- Violence & Gore: Harsh violence permeates this film.
- Vehicles are blown up, airstrikes are ordered, people are shot at point-blank range and hit over the head with guns.
- Homes, villages and convenience stores get bombed, resulting in many casualties.
- We see these violent scenes onscreen and hear them referenced in dialogue as well
- Certain moments, in particular, are deeply disturbing, such as seeing a suicide bomber kills a mother and her child by detonating a bomb in a store.
- Elsewhere, a man gets shot in the face, and we glimpse his gorily gaping wound and plenty of blood.
- Young boys riding in a truck are shot dead.
- People are bound, gagged, and forced to watch their loved ones die.
- Blood spews and smears the faces and bodies of some victims.
- People carry guns, knives and grenades.
- A man says he wants to cut a woman up and feed her to his fish.
- Two young women get into a fist fight at school.
- A young woman is kidnapped and cries in fear.
- A woman who attempts to cross the border is left behind after she gets swept away in the river's current.
Profanity:
- The f-word is heard more than 30 times.
- Other profanities include multiples uses of the s-word, "h---," "a--" and "b--ch."
- Many profanities are heard in Spanish as well, some that are captured with subtitles and others that aren't.
- A young woman is referred to as a "narco whore.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:
- A man mentions how profitable trafficking cocaine can be.
- People (including young boys) smoke cigarettes, as well as drinking hard liquor and beer.
Frightening/Intense Scenes: There are scene through this film that is extremely brutal that may be too disturbing for some viewer
Story: 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.
Likes: Damn this sequel hold no punches straight off the bat at the beginning of the film, as were given an extremely brutal an disturbing scene which set the tone for the rest of the film. Sicario is still synonymous with government and cartel vigilante violence along the border of Mexico, which reflects the world today, although some people are still blind to think everyone is friendly. But this in the film is what happens in our own reality every day, with the cartel using traffickers to get drug and people across the border.
Unlike the first film, this time they've up the game by starting a war with all the cartel by framing one group for the kidnapping, Isabela Moner in this film done an incredible performance in a believe characters play a cartel daughter, she really showed this as well in her character attuide.
Agent and former cartel assassin Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) we come to understand a bit more about what he after Isabel Reyes father after he killed his family, the character is more defined in this film as it let loose to cause mayhem.
Amorality rather than soul-searching film, allow the action to dominate the cinematography. The film does have some insight into the chaos of border crossing control, Soldado concentrating on terrorist trafficking rather than drugs, and a brief moment of suspense as Alejandro tries to keep Isabel with him. Tearing the child away obliquely reminds us of the current zero-tolerance controversy on real borders.
But this film is very hard hitting in places what will shock, amaze and keep you entertained throughout the film. I would highly recommend watching this film.
Dislikes: One issue I had with this film, which I think was missed in the editing of the film, was the shop scene, I noticed the window didn't shatter, which in reality the windows would be there any more in that situation. That the only thing I found.
Overall: Reality check on border trafficking, dark brutal scenes and gritty drama action.
Rating: 5 out of 5 for Entertainment / 9 out of 10 for sequel concept
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