Sicario: Day of the Soldado 2018 123movies

Watch: Sicario: Day of the Soldado 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – In this adventure/drama, CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) enlists a mysterious operative to help investigate a Mexican drug cartel that has been smuggling terrorists into the U.S. Things escalate when the daughter of a top kingpin is abducted, forcing Graver and his partner to re-evaluate their mission..
Plot: Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 148,247
	62% | RottenTomatoes
	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2915 Popularity: 66.66 | TMDB

Reviews:

Of the two _Sicario_ films, the first is most certainly the better, though, in my opinion, not at all by the margin that I have seen many others imply. These are both great movies, not great in an identical way (even if their formula **is** identical) but both great. I don’t know that _Sicario_ **had** to be a film series as opposed to just the one movie, but the best experience I’ve had at the cinema for the past couple of months was with _Day of the Soldado_, so I’m glad it became one.

_Final rating:★★★½ – I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time._

**_Not as good as the original, but still pretty decent_**

> **_Sarah Sanders_**: _We have a completely broken immigration system. We have a national crisis, not just of safety and security, but a humanitarian crisis. We have drugs, we have human traffickers, we have terrorists that come across our border and there has to be a stop to that and we want to do – not just the wall; certainly that’s one of the most important factors. We know that it works; we know that in the places that it’s been, it’s 95 percent effective. We want to be effective across the board and that includes the wall an__d other technology._
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> **_Chris Wallace_**: “_Special Interest Aliens” are just people who come from countries that have ever produced a terrorist. They’re not terrorists themselves. And the State Department says that there is, quote, their words: “no credible evidence of any terrorist coming across the border from Mexico_.”
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**_Sanders_**: _We know that roughly, nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally, and we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border._

> **_Wallace_**: _Wait, wait, wait – I know the statistic; I didn’t know if you were going to use it. But I studied up on this. Do you know where those 4,000 people come – where they’re captured? Airports._

> _**Sanders**_: _Not always._

> **_Wallace_**: _Airports._

> **_Sanders_**: _Certainly a large number_ –

> **_Wallace_**: _The State Department says there hasn’t been any terrorists that they’ve found coming across the southern border with Mexico._

> _**Sanders**_: _It’s by air, it’s by land, and it’s by sea. It’s all of the above. But one thing that you’re forgetting is that the most vulnerable point of entry that we have into this country is our southern border, and we have to protect it. And the more individuals that_ –

> **_Wallace_**: _But they’re not coming across the southern border, Sarah. They’re coming and they’re being stopped at airports._

– White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders speaking with Chris Wallace; _Fox News Sunday_ (January 6, 2019)

_Sicario 2: Soldado_ [released in North America as _Sicario: Day of the Soldado_] is a sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s _Sicario_ (2015). And if ever a film didn’t scream “sequel”, it was that one. Apart from the fact that it was only a modest box-office hit (grossing $84.9 million against a $30 million budget, in an era when the only films that become franchises must gross $800 billion in the first five minutes of their release), the storyline was carried to a fairly natural conclusion – Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro), protected by his CIA handler Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), successfully manipulated naïve and idealistic CIRG officer Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) into helping him exact revenge for the murder of his wife and daughter at the hands of drug baron Fausto Alarcón (Julio Cesar Cedillo). The film concluded with Graver getting what he wanted, Gillick getting revenge, and Macer in possession of a more realistic, if bitter, understanding of how the US conducts its affairs in Mexico.

A sequel felt wholly unnecessary. But a sequel is what we have. When a suicide bombing in Kansas kills fifteen people, the US government authorise Graver to adopt “_extreme measures_” to combat Mexican drug cartels, who are suspected of smuggling the terrorists across the border. Deciding to instigate a war between the two major cartels, Graver recruits Gillick to assassinate a high-profile lawyer for the Matamoros cartel while Graver and his team kidnap Isabel Reyes (Isabela Moner), the daughter of the kingpin of Matamoros’ rival. Taking her to Texas, Graver and Gillick then ‘rescue’ her in a false flag operation, making it appear she was kidnapped by her father’s enemies. As they transport her back to Mexico, Gillick begins to bond with her. However, after they cross the border, the Mexican police escorts double-cross them, and Isabel flees into the desert, pursued by Gillick. Meanwhile, the US government determines that two of the suicide bombers from Kansas were domestic terrorists, and thus were not smuggled into the country. With this mind, to help quell tensions with Mexico, Secretary of Defense James Riley (Matthew Modine) orders the CIA to abandon the mission, much to Garver’s disgust.

With the first film wrapping up so neatly, the announcement of a sequel seemed like a typical Hollywood cash grab, one which would most likely crap all over the legacy of the truly excellent original. However, as bits and pieces of info regarding the sequel began to filter through, it started to feel less and less like the usual Hollywood knock-off we’re all used to seeing. For starters, Taylor Sheridan would return as sole-writer, in a script that would not go in what, for many, might seem the only real direction in which to take the story – Macer getting revenge for Graver and Gillick using her. Instead, Macer wouldn’t even appear, as the script would instead focus on pseudo-antagonists Gillick and Graver. To this end, the only other actors who would also return would be Raoul Max Trujillo as Rafael, one of Gillick’s contacts in Mexico, and Jeffrey Donovan as Steve Foraing, Graver’s number two. The big concern for a lot of people, however, was who would replace the irritatingly talented Villeneuve in the director’s chair. And so it was another welcome bit of news when the man chosen was Stefano Sollima, the Italian director of _A.C.A.B. – All Cops Are Bastards_ (2012) and _Suburra_ (2015), as well as most of the episodes in the first season of _Gomorra: La serie_ (2014).

Okay, so first things first. _Soldado_ isn’t a patch on _Sicario_. Not even close (and, needless to say, there’s nothing here to come anywhere near _that_ dinner table scene). And there are some problems which were largely absent first time around. For example, the narrative suffers slightly from the absence of Macer, not insofar as she herself is irreplaceable, but more in the sense that the audience no longer has a surrogate. Because we know who Graver and Gillick really are this time around, there is obviously no point in the film playing its cards close to its chest, and so it adapts a more balls-to-the-wall, damn-the-torpedoes approach. This renders the narrative more morally simplistic than the first film. In tandem with this, perhaps wisely, Sheridan has written _Soldado_ as a more conventional action-thriller than _Sicario_, but this has the knock-on effect that when the bullets start flying, as they do on several occasions, all the political/moral back-and-forth is made to seem nothing more than the material that gets us from one shootout to the next. Additionally, there’s an element of repetition, as Isabel is traded off from one group to the next, and one definitely gets a sense of _déjà vu_, as she becomes a metaphorical cog in the screenwriter’s machinery. Also, although Solima’s direction is good (with that resume, how could he not get the gritty tone right), it’s not as sharp as Villeneuve’s. Finally, and this is a small point, the title of the film translates as _Hitman 2: Soldier_ [or _Hitman: Day of the Soldier_ in North America]. This makes not a lick of sense, and instead sounds like a 90s action movie starring Michael Dudikoff.

However, for all that, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The script is sharp, relevant (references to a spineless POTUS undermining intelligence operations will be sure to please at least half the audience), gruff, and cool. With the two _Sicario_ films, _Hell or High Water_ (2016), _Wind River_ (2017), and _Yellowstone_ (2018-), Sheridan is fast becoming one of Hollywood’s most accomplished writers. The film also stars two of the coolest men on the planet being masculine and suppressing their emotions. Del Toro never so much as even hints at cracking a smile, whilst Brolin has lost some of the sardonic dismissiveness he possessed in the first film, but none of the bluster or self-confidence. All things considered, for a film that never seemed to have any real reason to exist, this is a cracking piece of storytelling, and has me already looking forward to the next instalment.

A sequel that does the original proud
While I did enjoy the original ‘Sicario’ I admit I found it a little slow paced and tedious in places. As with most sequels ‘Sicario: Day of the Soldado’ comes out with guns blazing (literally) trying to one up its predecessor. The first 2/3 of this film are electric and everything I wanted them to be. Then sadly the final 1/3 couldn’t deliver the knock-out punch. It went down some channels that I wasn’t particularly fond of, and ignored some that I would have loved to have seen. Don’t get me wrong though, this is a very entertaining and well made film.

Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro are perfectly cast in these films. They are legitimately bad-ass. The rest of the cast however leave a little bit to be desired. Catherine Keener in particular was miscast and couldn’t hold her own in any scene she was in. It didn’t ruin the movie, more so it was just a distraction when she was on screen.

The action scenes in this movie are quite incredible. The are shot in such creative and powerful ways. Only lacking in some casting errors and trailing off a little in the final 1/3, this film has a tremendous amount of watchability factor.

Messy and Flawed
When three terrorists explodes a supermarket in America, the American government believes the responsible were the Mexican cartels smuggling terrorists to America. They decide to begin a war among the cartels and an unofficial command is assigned to kidnap the daughter of a kingpin and release her in the land of another cartel. However, when the government discovers that the responsible for the terrorist attack were American citizens from New Jersey, they decide to abort the plan and kill the girl. But things go wrong and do not happen as planned.

“Sicario: Day of the Soldado” is a messy and flawed film with great action scenes. There are so many plot holes that make no sense unless the viewer is brainless. The stupid beginning is absolutely pointless. The terrorist attack to the supermarket is an excellent scene, but the attitude of the mother heading with her child toward the last terrorist in the opposite direction people are running is senseless. The scene of Isabel Reyes fighting at school is another pointless scene. Why the Mexican police officers in the seven cars that joined the three American cars start shooting the American team? Why Alejandro risks his life to save the annoying girl? How can the teenager recognize a man that he glanced at in a car for a few seconds in the parking area of a supermarket in Texas? Why take Isabel to the witness protection program? How Alejandro crossed the border and was hospitalized? There are so many other questions about this flick that would take lots of time to write. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): “Sicário: Dia do Soldado” (“Sicario: Day of the Soldado”)

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 2 min (122 min)
Budget 35000000
Revenue 75836683
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Stefano Sollima
Writer Taylor Sheridan
Actors Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Merced
Country United States, Mexico
Awards 1 win & 7 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround 7.1, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Mini, Panavision Primo, Super Speed MKII and Ultra Speed MKII Lenses, Arri Alexa XT Plus, Panavision Primo, Super Speed MKII, Ultra Speed MKII and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Company 3, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital intermediate), LightIRON Digital, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital dailies)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (3.4K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema