Sicario: Day of the Soldado

This is one of my favorite movies of 2018.

Day of the Soldado's strained credulity in the last act has an undercurrent of kooky exhilaration, as the plot takes leaps that feel as reckless as they are refreshing in such a doleful film of terminal prognoses.

Del Toro and Moner say everything that’s needed with pained, bewildered eyes. Meanwhile, Graver speaks with relentless American cynicism. He is both funny and unnerving, and maybe more unnerving because he’s being funny.

Murky, clunky, but sometimes nihilistically exhilarating.

Director Stefano Sollima, who cut his teeth on Italian TV mob dramas, is good at building suspense. He fills the screen with striking images, too -- night-vision raids, heat-signature tracking, eye-in-the-sky surveillance.

Alas, all the darkness in the world doesn’t make “Day of Soldado” feel real, and errant mentions of a weak-stomached POTUS violently return us to the atrocities happening beyond the frame.

It’s inexcusable for a movie that tries to say daring and surprising things about a very urgent matter of cultural and political importance to be so thuddingly predictable in so many places.

Cruel, brutal and real. This movie is an interesting representation of what would happen if the boundaries of ethics were to be broken in order to accomplish a seemingly unreachable goal. US Army going to the Dark Side.

Far worse than the original but still a good watch if you aint seen it ina while, the ending is the biggest issue as it literally doesnt make sense

Not as good as the first one for me. It had yet again great acting, but the story in the end of the movie fell flat. The movie itself was very watchable and enticing, but whole story and plot line got so weird towards end and all of it resolved so easily it seemed. Also it seemed like it is set up for another third movie at the end

The film is a far cry from its predecessor. The film has multiple subplots, and a main plot, which none of them get resolved by the end. There are several continuity errors which greatly added to my own confusion, especially with some character's motivations. In fact, there are contradictory character arcs. The bright spot is in the camerawork. The cinematography is fantastic and there is minimal CGI. The few action sequences are well done. But that doesn't tell a story.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]