This series’ continuing ineffectiveness is particularly disappointing given its vast assortment of overtly positive attributes...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 29, 2023

“Day of the Soldado” is a strong, formidable second chapter of the “Sicario” series.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Sheridan's story clips along at a steady pace, though he's writing from a might-means-right ideology that lends the film a certain bland and familiar machismo.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2022

Elevating it's mediocrity to a self aware stylization that expounds on the film as it unfolds.

| Original Score: 76/100 | Aug 22, 2021

A nihilistic, senseless action movie.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 21, 2021

This is not a feel-good movie but it desperately tries to imitate one in its final moments.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

In a world full of sequels, be like this one.

| Jan 28, 2021

There is a pulsating nature to the film right from the first scene.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 4, 2020

As you can tell, the lack of Denis Villeneuve and Emily Blunt aren't the only reasons as to why you should steer clear. It's nonsensical, tone deaf, and in general, just a miserable film-watching experience.

| Oct 8, 2020

Sicario 2 is only a disappointment in comparison to the excellence that came before it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 14, 2020

[T]he movie portrays its issues so stereotypically that they simply exist to mechanically stoke Western audiences' fears.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2020

Day of Soldado is a meandering mess.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 9, 2020

The film and its very existence parallels the story and the drug war. Ultimately, it's mostly pointless and wasteful and driven by American appetites.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 30, 2020

Sicario: Day of the Soldado has a good rhythm, is violent, flirts with the tension so that the action sequences are executed with light surprises that never forget cohesion or the solid entertainment. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2020

Stefano Sollima drops the arthouse pretension of Villeneuve's original, instead delivering a hard-hitting intelligent action/thriller.

| May 29, 2020

It's an entirely unnecessary film, and it never stops feeling like it.

| Mar 20, 2020

A hard-charging sequel that's equal parts anti-immigrant hysteria and gun-death porn.

| Mar 4, 2020

Not a complete waste but a questionable start to a franchise that doesn't need to be one.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 10, 2020

It's engrossing in a very direct action way... [But] there are enough hot button issues floating around in this movie that I was hoping for something more than just a glorified "blow things up real big" action [movie].

| Dec 14, 2019

Despite all [the plot holes], "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" remains an effective nail-biter.

| Oct 17, 2019