Read Common Sense Media's Sicario: Day of the Soldado review, age rating, and parents guide. Chris Stuckmann reviews Sicario: Day of the Soldado, starring Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Catherine Keener. Day of the Soldado is a competent thriller but, without the original Sicario's artistic flourishes and substance, it's somewhat forgettable.
Including how much reality. "Day of the Soldado" gestures toward a few from-the-headlines subjects and accidentally collides with others, but like most Hollywood movies of the moment, it keeps actual politics at a safe distance. In Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the series begins a new chapter. In the drug war, there are no rules--and as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), whose family was murdered.
Like "Sicario," "Wind River," and everything else that Taylor Sheridan has ever scripted, "Day of the Soldado" feels like it was written on a bender of whiskey and Viagra — even the female characters act like big swinging dicks, because Sheridan only seems to know one way of expressing real strength. "Sicario" captured that threat as few movies have, depicting the brutality with which cartels control the flow of illegal substances across the U. S.-Mexico Considering how rare it is that an intelligent, topical action movie comes along, there might be reason to question whether "Soldado" stands a chance at. Movie Review: Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro caught again in a vicious drug-war crossfire. Review: As sequels go, Sicario: Day Of The Soldado tries to up the scale and action from its predecessor. Both the cinematographer and the composer work on the same template that made the original movie so artistically wonderful.
Trailer Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Sicario: Day of the Soldado throws a grenade into the immigration debate: EW review. The American border policy is caged children screaming. This is particularly emphasized in Soldado, which opens with the uncomfortably timely image of Mexican migrants crossing the Texas border and being surrounded by border patrol officers.
The story of a young FBI agent getting a firsthand look at the conflict between the US authorities and the Mexican drug cartels, and the brutality on both sides of the border, was perfectly self-contained. Day of the Soldado begins as a basic mission movie—Gillick and Graver must disrupt some cartels—but by the end, the heroes are removed from the events leading up to that mission's impetus as much as they are from each other. After a Kansas City supermarket comes under attack by suicide. Stretches of the movie are spent with just Alejandro and the girl, Isabel (Isabela Moner), with a similarly "tough guy with a soft side" element coming through as Matt does his best to keep Alejandro protected.