Finally watched Sicario: Day of the Soldado
I thoroughly enjoyed the first Sicario movie and would consider it one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last decade. A very excellent film on manipulating tension with some larger than life characters. The second movie was good, but not what I would consider within the same realm of the first film. I think one of the magic element of the first Sicario movie is the characterization. They are definitive and you very clearly get an understanding of who they are and their motivations. Matt Gruber did not have nearly enough time on screen. You want to know more about him and that’s part of the beauty of how he is written. I think any story that leaves you wishing a character had more time should be cherished and not turned into another movie. Another great example of this would be Lt. Aldo Raine from Inglorious Basterds.