Sicario: Day of the Soldado Dvd

Sicario: Day of the Soldado (titled Sicario 2: Soldado in the UK) is a 2018 American action-crime film directed by the Italian filmmaker Stefano Sollima and written by Taylor Sheridan. A sequel to 2015’s Sicario, the film features Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Donovan, and Raoul Trujillo reprising their roles, with Isabela Moner, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Catherine Keener joining the cast. The story relates to the drug war at the U.S.-Mexico border and an attempt by the United States government to incite increased conflict among the cartels.

Sicario: Day of the Soldado was released in the United States on June 29, 2018, by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label, while it was distributed internationally by Lionsgate. The film is dedicated to the memory of Jóhann Jóhannsson, the composer of the first film, who died in February 2018. It received generally favorable reviews from critics.

Plot

A terrorist suicide bombing in a Kansas City grocery store kills fifteen people. In response, the United States government orders CIA officer Matt Graver to apply extreme measures to combat Mexican drug cartels who are suspected of having smuggled the terrorists across the U.S.-Mexico border. Graver and the Department of Defense decide the best option is to instigate a war between the major cartels, and Graver recruits operative Alejandro Gillick for the mission. Graver also meets with PMC official Andy Wheeldon to secure mercenaries, helicopters, and military-grade communication equipment in order for the U.S. to maintain plausible deniability while combating the Mexican cartels.

Gillick assassinates a high-profile lawyer of the Matamoros cartel in Mexico City while Graver and his team captures Isabel Reyes, the daughter of the kingpin of the Matamoros’ rival, Carlos Reyes (who ordered the killing of Gillick’s family in the events leading up to the previous film), in a false flag operation.

Graver, Gillick and their team take Isabel to a safe house in Texas. They stage a DEA raid and pretend to rescue her, making her believe that she had been captured by the Matamoros cartel. They take her to an American military base while the team organizes her return to Mexico. They plan to leave her behind in a Mexican Federal Police depot located inside territory controlled by her father’s rivals to further escalate the inter-cartel conflict. However, after they cross into Mexico, the police escort turns against them and attack the American armoured vehicles. Graver and his team kill 25 corrupt Mexican policemen to escape the ambush.

Amidst the chaos, Isabel runs away into the desert. Gillick goes after her alone while the rest of the team returns to the United States. Meanwhile, the American government determines that at least two of the suicide bombers in Kansas City were actually domestic terrorists, not foreign nationals, and thus were not smuggled into the United States by the cartels. To quell tensions with Mexico, the Secretary of Defense orders the CIA to abandon the mission. Learning that Isabel witnessed the Americans shooting the Mexican police, the Secretary orders the team to erase all proof of American involvement by killing Isabel and Gillick. Graver in turn warns Gillick and orders him to kill Isabel, but Gillick refuses and turns rogue in order to keep her alive. Both have found shelter at an isolated farm in the desert for the night. Gillick knows that if they stay in Mexico, she will be killed. With few resources, they disguise themselves as illegal immigrants and pay human traffickers to help them re-enter the United States. Graver and his team fly covertly into Mexico, tracking a GPS device Gillick has activated and embedded into Isabel’s shoe.

At the point of departure, Miguel, a young Mexican-American who has been recruited as a coyote, recognizes Gillick from an encounter in a Texas parking lot two days earlier. He alerts his boss, and Gillick and Isabel are taken hostage. Miguel is forced to shoot Gillick, and the gang leaves him for dead. Fed up with the gang, Miguel abandons them shortly afterward. Graver witnesses the apparent killing of Gillick through live satellite imaging and his team track down the Mexican gang, kill them all, and rescue Isabel. Graver decides to bring Isabel back to the US and put her in witness protection rather than obey his orders to kill her. Meanwhile, Gillick regains consciousness and discovers he has been shot through the cheek. He finds the dead gang members and takes one of their cars. He is chased by a gang search party, killing them by throwing a grenade through the window of their car.

One year later, a tattooed Miguel walks through the mall to his gang’s office, behind a Mexican restaurant. He opens the door and is surprised to find Gillick, who has recovered from his injuries. Gillick says: “So you want to be a sicario? Let’s talk about your future.”

Cast

Benicio del Toro as Alejandro Gillick, a former Mexican Prosecutor turned CIA trained assassin
Josh Brolin as Matt Graver, a former USSOCOM combat deployable operator turned CIA SAC/SOG officer
Isabela Moner as Isabel Reyes, a drug lord’s daughter
Jeffrey Donovan as Steve Forsing, CIA SAC/SOG officer
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Gallo, leader of the Matamoros cartel
Catherine Keener as Cynthia Foards, Matt’s Superior in the CIA
Matthew Modine as Secretary of Defense James Riley
Shea Whigham as Andy Wheeldon, the head of a private military company
Elijah Rodriguez as Miguel Hernandez, an American teen who works as a Coyote
Howard Ferguson Jr. as Troy
David Castañeda as Hector
Jacqueline Torres as Blandina
Raoul Trujillo as Rafael
Bruno Bichir as Angel
Jake Picking as Shawn
Arturo Maese Bernal as Gallos thug
Ian Bohen as Carson Willis
Faysal Ahmed as Bashiir
Graham Beckel as Dale Hammonds