In Sicario – Day of the Soldado, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are back as US Federal agent Matt Graver and hitman Alejandro.This time the drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated and the cartels have started trafficking terrorists to the states.
He’s got talented cinematographer Dairiusz Wolski (‘Alien: Covenant’) in for Oscar-winner Roger Deakins, and he has a brooding score from Hildur Guðnadóttir in for the late Johann Johannsson. Are you sure you want to delete this comment?Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. So Sicario 2 is junk, but it’s stylish junk. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment.Enter your email to follow new comments on this article.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?After escaping an attack by what he claims was a 70-foot shark, Jonas Taylor must confront his fears to save those trapped in a sunken submersible.Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Film. The studio has stated the production budget was $35 million, although Deadline Hollywood reported the film cost as high as $45 million before prints and advertising. The sequel feels in line with the original, and yet that only serves to highlight where the new movie falls short, particularly with regards to the story. You’ve been warned. The darkness is still there, and the film climaxes with moments of intense confrontation rather than chases and large explosions, but said darkness is folded into something more forthrightly thrilling. Director Stefano Sollima has worked in Italian crime thrillers, and he brings a run-and-gun humanity to this, suggesting complexities of border society (where the first film defaulted to moody hellscapery).”“Even without DP Roger Deakins and the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson aboard to sculpt the movie’s nerve-racking sense of dread, ‘Day of the Soldado’ feels like a high-class extension of their contributions to the ominous atmosphere that was ‘Sicario’s’ signature — one that plays off audience paranoia, exploiting the idea that we’re in way over our heads, watching professionals who’ve done and seen far worse than we could ever imagine as they double-cross one another. Without that character, you just have two guys wreaking havoc and believing the ends justify the means. Save Benicio Del Toro in Sicario 2: Soldado. “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” directed by Stefano Sollima from a script by Taylor Sheridan, is an unusual kind of sequel. Gellick and Graver might retrieve some missing part of themselves, but who gives a damn about their humanity when so many others on the fringes of this story have theirs forcibly stripped away?