Sicario: Day of the Soldado by Taylor Sheridan 8 out of 10

Sicario: Day of the Soldado by Taylor Sheridan 
8 out of 10


I think a sicario was a foot soldier, well...actually riding a motorcycle and killing people, in Columbia, during the wars with the drug cartels.
This is an image I seem to have from Loving Pablo, with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in the role of Pablo Escobar.

The Day of the Soldado does not seem to bring much, if anything new to the matrix of action movies.
The federal agencies, the FBI in particular, are clashing with the Mexican drug cartels - when they are not busy upsetting the fool in the White House.

The most recent scandal has the man who is supervising the special FBI investigation into the Russia collusion cited as willing to wear a wire when seeing the demented leader of the free world.
Rosenstein is likely to go on Thursday, tomorrow that is.

With him, the Muller probe may also be finished.
Come to think of it, what happens in real life these days might be more interesting than Sicario.

Nevertheless, this film is worth watching.
Benicio Del Toro as Alejandro, Josh Brolin in the role of the special FBI agent Matt Graver and Isabela Moner as Isabel Reyes are very good.

The plot involves the kidnapping of the daughter of a drug lord, Isabel Reyes, and the long journey she has to travel to get safe...
Evidently, if she makes it.

Alejandro is there to help.
Only he is recognized as he tries to pass for an ordinary Mexican, trying to illegally cross the border into America.

He is tortured and left for dead.
It is to be expected that he would not die so easily.

Otherwise, the film is credible in that there are blunders made by both sides.
We do not have super humans as the good people, fighting and always winning against the evil, the villains that ultimately cannot rise to the standard of the Ubermensch.

There are shootouts with the Mexican police, who may or may not have been corrupted...it is not entirely clear for your truly.

Soldado is watchable, if not memorable.