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- Sicario: Day of the Soldado is a darkly thrilling film with excellent performances, and its gritty, intense action is balanced by heady themes of moral decay, but overall, because of recent political developments, it feels behind the times.
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Jun 29, 2018 · At its best, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado” reminds one of the work of Michael Mann, stories of macho men so released of restrictions on their behavior that they blur the line between good and evil.
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Though less subversive than its predecessor, Sicario: Day of the Soldado succeeds as a stylish, dynamic thriller -- even if its amoral machismo makes for grim viewing. Read Critics Reviews
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) 62%. 2015’s Sicario certainly isn’t an easy watch, but critics lauded director Denis Villeneuve ‘s 2015 crime drama as a hard-hitting thriller with a powerful...
“Day of the Soldado” is a strong, formidable second chapter of the “Sicario” series. Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. Sheridan's story clips...
- A dark, gritty, and well-acted action drama that already feels dated.
- Verdict
By Witney Seibold
Updated: Jun 21, 2018 6:24 am
Posted: Jun 21, 2018 2:00 am
Stefano Sollima's Sicario: Day of the Soldado may have been considered one of the best films of the year, had it been released in 2008. Although a sequel to an Oscar-nominated film from 2015, Day of the Soldado feels like a long-ago prequel from a previous era – albeit a recent one – of American filmmaking. It is a film about the politics and violence surrounding U.S./Mexico border security, but there is no talk of a border wall, of ICE agents, of families being separated. To be fair, screenwriter Taylor Sheridan likely penned his screenplay long before the current president was in office, and the U.S. began its campaign to increase the dark militancy of its border security, but recent developments in the real world make Sicario: Day of the Soldado feel instantly dated.
Case in point: In one scene, the government bigwig character, played by Catherine Keener, corners CIA tough guy/super-soldier Matt Graver (Josh Brolin, reprising his role from the original) to explain to him the minutiae of governmental public image. She says that the (unnamed) president needs to save face and that he “doesn't care about winning.” If there's anything Americans know about the current president, it's that he cares about winning.
This is not to say, of course, that Day of the Soldado is a badly constructed film. Indeed, Sollima's assured and energetic direction is, to this reviewer's eye, even slicker and more compelling than the comparatively mournful direction of Denis Villeneuve's original. The original Sicario was hard-edged and dark, concerned with the way violence can erode the soul, and whether or not a soul is even needed in the complex world of ever-increasing criminal enterprise at the Mexican border. Day of the Soldado, with its well-choreographed chases, excellent photography (by Dariusz Wolski), fast pace, intense music (by Hildur Guðnadóttir), and badass gunfights, reads more like an action film than a drama. 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. It's a tonal shift that works well, at least from a technical standpoint.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado is a darkly thrilling film with excellent performances, and its gritty, intense action is balanced by heady themes of moral decay, but overall, because of recent political developments, it feels behind the times.
- Witney Seibold
Jun 29, 2018 · Sicario: Day of the Soldado: Directed by Stefano Sollima. With Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Merced, Jeffrey Donovan. The drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border.
Jun 20, 2018 · Sicario: Day of the Soldado is an intense, at times morally ambiguous, and gritty thriller that will leave you wanting more. And, now, Benicio del Toro finally has a franchise of his own.
