CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) and black ops specialist Alejandro Gillick (Benicio Del Toro) plan to further the war between the Mexican drug cartels in the hopes it will stop Islamic terrorists from being brought into the U.S. over the border. They kidnap the daughter (Isabela Moner) of one of the cartel bosses, but when Gillick refuses Graver's order to execute her, the two comrades find themselves on opposite sides of a very deadly conflict. Jeffrey Donovan, Catherine Keener co-star in this thrilling sequel. 122 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Two-disc set.
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2015's Sicario was a fantastic thriller about the realities of combating the drug trade; Sicario Day of the Soldado is a ridiculous sequel that fails to expand on the themes of the first film in a meaningful way and is frankly a muddled mess. The film starts with cartel coyotes smuggling a muslim terrorist over the boarder prompting the US government to initiate black ops against the cartels. This is where Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin's characters from the first film come in. The plan is to start a war between the cartels and of course that doens't go well and ultimately Del Toro and Brolin find themselves on opposite sides of the fight. Without Emily Blunt's quixotic character, there is nothing interesting that plays out between the nihilistic characters that Brolin and Del Toro play. Anything interesting about their characters played out in the first film making Soldado a total snooze. The blu ray itself looks and sounds nice.
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This best picture winning 1987 Vietnam film shouldn't need much of an introduction--it's excellent. This steelbook release from Shout Factory is the best version of this film currently on home media boasting a 4k restoration that shows significant improvement over the previous release that is now a bargain blu ray title. All of the special features from the previous release are carried over and, personally I think the artwork on the steelbook is fantastic. If you care about having the best presentation of a given film, this is the version to have, if you are penny pinching stick with the other release. Either way you are getting a classic film.