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- 2018
- R
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- 2 h 2 m
- 2018
- R
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- 2 h 2 m
Summary 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 by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin’s daughter to in...
Directed By: Stefano Sollima
Written By: Taylor Sheridan
- 2018
- R
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- 2 h 2 m
- 2018
- R
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- 2 h 2 m
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
61
7.0
Where to Watch
Summary 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 by a cartel kingpin, to escalate the war in nefarious ways. Alejandro kidnaps the kingpin’s daughter to in...
Directed By: Stefano Sollima
Written By: Taylor Sheridan
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 Critic Reviews
61
56% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
38% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
6% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 Critic Reviews
61
56% Positive
28 Reviews
28 Reviews
38% Mixed
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
6% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 289 User Ratings
7.0
70% Positive
202 Ratings
202 Ratings
24% Mixed
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
6% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 289 User Ratings
7.0
70% Positive
202 Ratings
202 Ratings
24% Mixed
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
6% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
More fast paced and action oriented and brutal than the first film. Sicario 2 blows away Sicario in every way. Excellent acting yet again, and superb, brutal gunfight scenes. Seriously hope they make a third and final with Brolin and Del Toro. I want to see the end go out with Del Toro wasting Raez!
This film didn't score nearly as high as it should have. It was INTENSE.
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We forced to look at the horror of war against terrorism from Isabel's point of view, really terrifying and pumping at the same time! Sicario proves us how scary it is to feel for declare war against drugs and terrorism. I feel so sorry for Isabel and Elijah have to go thru this.
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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.
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
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+Fantastic main cast most of which return for the sequel
+Great soundscape
+Shows excellent production value at times
-Plot feels 'by the book' in comparison to original
-Overall lacks that special quality the first film exhibited
I really enjoyed watching Day of the soldado, yet I found myself wondering why bother making this film? The first was iconic by its own right wheras this feels far more by the numbers as far as plot material goes. Still if you like 'gritty' in your movie watching diet and you havent already watched the hell out of the incredible sea of tv there is to watch these days then you might enjoy watching.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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This movie was promising. Fantastic action sequences albeit there were long build ups, I am a big fan of Brolin. However the finishing was terrible, almost like the movie ran out of budget, there were way too many plot holes. I do not want to get into to much detail, however how can a guy who has been injured in such a way walk 100 miles to the vehicles that ditched him in the first instance? One of the worst movies i've seen in 2018 imho.
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Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 3 Nominations
International Motor Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
