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"Sicario: Day Of The Soldado" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 12/18/2019
Following terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, Graver and his team plot to destabilise the cartels and their people traffickers by engineering a war between the various gangs.
Sicario was a smart and sophisticated examination of the “fight fire with fire” mentality of black ops operatives viewed through the eyes of an agent who rather naively still believed in due process. Dispensing with Emily Blunt’s character and instead focusing on Graver and Alejandro, the attempt at providing a moral compass is replaced with the rather contrived sentimentality of their paternalistic urge to protect a teenage girl – who happens to be the daughter of their target. This leaves a dynamic that is far more like the usual “black hats versus white hats” mentality of the Hollywood blockbuster, …
