Sicario: Day of the Soldado focuses on the Mexican border but answers none of the political questions it asks

THE follow-up to Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated Sicario, starring Benicio Del Toro, focuses rather aptly on the Mexican border and the opportunity for drug cartels to smuggle terrorists into the US.

Federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) hatches a plan to kidnap a cartel leader’s daughter and blame a rival, leaving them so busy fighting each other they can’t focus on the war.

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Hiring Alejandro (Del Toro) to do the deed, it naturally all goes wrong. I think.

Judging by the whooping and hollering of the audience I saw this with, I’m going to be in the minority when I say it did little for me. I enjoyed it, but I was expecting a WHOLE lot more.

I found it extremely and unnecessarily complicated, and for a series steeped in realism and political message, it does little to answer any of the many questions it asks.

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Director: Stefano Sollima
Cast:  Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner Jeffrey Donovan, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Catherine Keener
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Rating: ★★★☆☆
Release Date: 27/06/2018