I think Matt spared the girl because (as far as he knew) Alejandro had just died, he'd died because he'd tried to save the girl, and deliberately choosing to not save the girl at the end would just make Alejandro's efforts feel like an even bigger waste and Matt just didn't want to piss on his friend's memory like that. Because they actually were friends.
@@largol33t1 actually just read that the screenplay is still in the works and the film got green-lit with even possibly bringing back Emily Blunts character.
Don't get the hate for this one. It's not as good as the first but up there as an amazing action thriller. Such a cool movie and I hope the plans for the 3rd are still going forward.
@@joeberger3441 The fact that it’s a different director for the 2nd says it all. the studio wanted the cash so they pigeonholed a 2nd and Denis wanted no part of it
40:00 I get why you'd be disappointed that Alejandro got captured and shot, but one of the best aspects of these two movies is how they try to make the violence both realistic and serious. And as great as Alejandro is, how would he have possibly realistically gotten away once the cartel caught him? He was never meant to be other-worldly, lol, and it'd be comic-booky if he pulled off some magic to switch bodies. And the fact that he's tied up but didn't let himself bleed out IS his drive, and his decision to immediately play dead IS his skill.
Alejandro was never John Wick, I'm not sure where that idea came from. Everyone he killed he killed with surprise in the first film, and usually with a team of people, or a drone above him telling him exactly where the enemies were. He wasn't some superhuman assassin, he was an assassin with a full CIA surveillance team and Tier 1 operators on his side helping him out. In this, he was alone, without support, and he didn't know he'd been made so the enemies had surprise on their side.
The thing I always loved about these is how grounded and realistic they were. The ambush scene in this one is one of the best film examples I've ever seen of a modern complex ambush the way I saw them in the middle east. People are kind of spoiled by the John Wick "cool violence" we see a lot of, and movies like this can be a refreshing reminder of just how messy and fast violence ACTUALLY is.
You guys just don't understand the movie it wasn't disappointing he took Miguel under his wings because he felt betrayed you guys need a lot more action base movies under your wings to see that this movie is good
John Wick was captured and almost killed in the first movie if it weren't for Marcus shooting the henchman. Also, Alejandro was focused on saving Isabel.
Let me get this straight. They were mad that Alejandro got shot and instead wanted him to “do a switcheroo” or “come out from behind the rock”. Do you want gritty realism or not? Make up your mind 😂.
Alejandro was never John Wick or some super assassin. He is just a very unhinged individual that would go outside the boundaries of what a normal person would be willing to do to complete his objective (avenge his family). However, the movie does highlight that no matter how badass someone is, there is no escaping violence. No one is too big to die. They got caught trying to come across the border and was in a situation where there was no way to get an upperhand on Miguel and the Coyotes
I appreciate the more realistic take where at the end of the day, Alejandro is just one guy and can easily be taken out by a single misstep. I think this movie is still really good and really well done, but the ending was kind of bad and yes, the first Sicario is leagues ahead of this one lol. I'm really hoping Sicario 3 (if it happens) returns to its roots.
@Joe Arce I hope so. I know a lot of people disliked her character for some reason in the first one but I really missed having her as the "audiences eyes" and her character trying to be the moral compass in a sea of grey.
I think you guys are too used to and expecting just superhero films, waiting for some switcheroo or something. As other comments said, the brilliance of the story here is subverting what you expect from generic movies. Alejandro isn't a superhero, and chance in life can take any person out. All of the options you're expecting are the generic, tried and true routes from what you thought should happen. I feel you guys set expectations based on what you see from other generic films, or video game plots, since you look at characters as "game characters" following traditional roles, instead of just real people who are flawed and nuanced.
Exactly they kept smiling and laughing and joking in serious moments or at the end...and at 40:22 he survived the shot by luck but she wanted him to survive purely by skill because "he's the badass john wick"...She doesn't understand that actual well trained soldier's in mexico get captured and executed too..she did not even understand his character and just sees him as a badass dude.
This is more action thriller. Tho Taylor Sheridan wrote this as well, the director's vision and interpretation is very different. I still think it's good. Sheridan does have a style of building suspense and having it come to a crescendo in the end. For me "Hell or High Water" and "Wind River" show Sheridan's style best. Wind River he directed and it's a personal favorite (I have native american family) and Sheridan makes a point to tell good native stories in almost all his projects. I appreciate that.
It kills me inside that everybody reacts to sicario and then ignores hell or high water and sicario, they’re all part of the same thematic American frontier trilogy yet hell or high water and wind river get ignored even tho they’re Fuckin awesome.
@@alexflorea4879 hell or high water gets very little love either, both that and wind river are phenomenal and all written by the same dude as part of a thematic American frontier trilogy, shame sicario is the only one that gets attention from reactors because the other 2 are on the same level
Okay so I must admit, them caring so much about that girl was a bit out of place BUT: 1. People usually die from a small caliber pistol bullet when it hits a vital organ, from blood loss, and/or infection(sepsis). He was shot on the cheek and it went through his other cheek, so he was lucky. 2. The boy was an ideal candidate to be a Sicario because he was a sociopath. Skills can be taught but personality is already built-in a person. Plenty of people can hit targets accurately and efficiently but not many have the “cojones” to pull a trigger and end a life. 3. The worst enemy of the intelligence community and the warfighters are politicians. Politicians desire for another term and/or to stay popular in polls, a change of administration, party loyalty above human lives, etc have directly and indirectly killed thousands of service personnel, civilians, destroyed lives, and wasted billions of dollars.
Interesting take on the boy being a sociopath. I though it was because he had good instincts and was very observant. He was the one who after all identified Alejandro.
it is disappointing. that bombing scene in opening scene doesn't related to the story at all. and nobody cares about that boy that keep smuggling Mexican to border
exactly. sequels are hardly ever as good. but this one was very good still, which is impressive. people's expectations are always too high, after an original great movie. i do the opposite. i expect to be disappointed, and that way i'm rarely let down.
@@boboboy8189 The bomb scene IS related to what they are doing in the movie. The cartels were helping terrorists get across the border and they struck in the middle of America. In turn, Washington wanted to oust the cartels but couldn't do an all-out war. Instead, they were trying to get the cartels to destroy each other. That's why they kidnapped the girl. I'm sorry you aren't sharp enough to grasp what was going on, maybe you can go watch Toy Story, Nemo, or some other Disney movie that's a little easier to follow.........
@@TeddyKGB12 but did you forgot, it's never speaks again, this remind means weak writing when a movie shown a scene telling it's important but forgot about it later on. if that scene is important, why we don't get another scene that reinforced cartels helping those terrorist later on? i hate Disney movie, you basically assumed I watch cartoon because I use Mecha figure???
@@boboboy8189 Did they re-visit the bombing or the corpses in the walls of the house in the first movie? No, they didn't and you seem to be OK with it! It wasn't relevant again for the rest of the first movie. It's just an introduction of Kate and in the 2nd movie, Matt. Something to grab the attention of the audience. The REAL story evolves from it.
I especially enjoyed Alejandro’s fatherly instinctive protection of Isabel. He risked his life to get her to safety. And Matt taking over after seeing Alejandro ostensibly executed.
Yall did good. I watched it and it was so stupid. They kept smiling, laughing and making jokes EVEN in serious moments and then call the movie dissapointing. They obviously didn't appreciate the movie at all
I think the concept they wanted to show is that in cartel-land, the cylinder of the revolver is always spinning and it's anyone's turn to die in the most random ways. As for the ending, you could see it go different ways. But just remember, everyone gets used by someone else in these films.
I'm pretty sure Alejandro was "made" by Matt in the sense that he was trained to handle guns and scenarios. Alejandro isn't John Wick; he simply trained for and planned out a mission with the help of the CIA. So, I don't think it's unreasonable that he would get captured trying to sneak a girl across the border. He's not actually a high-level CIA operative. He still has the determination and skills, but you were expecting him to be a genius despite that never being shown. I can understand why you see it as out of character for Matt (and even Alejandro) to save the girl, but we don't actually have any knowledge that he is willing to murder a young girl (or boy), and it's just as likely that he has grown attached to Alejandro and wanted to save her for his sake. He doesn't seem psychotic. You're right about the ending, though. The third movie might explain it, but it doesn't make sense yet.
That was a good ending, it sets up the next movie, Alejandro is gonna train Miguel and make him infiltrate the cartel and make him an undercover sicario to dismantle the cartel from the inside out.
Deep down inside, Josh’s character saw Alejandro as a friend and that’s why he didn’t kill the girl knowing Alejandro died trying to save her, so killing her would feel like he’d be betraying him again. Alejandro getting caught and shot is actually pretty realistic because shows us that he’s just a man after all. No matter how skilled or how strong you are, in the end someone gonna get you. I love when movies are realistic and not just pure fiction👍✌️ Alejandro not killing Miguel is because he gonna turn him into his ally, because he definitely gonna after those CIA people who betrayed him, in other words, Matt and his team, and Alejandro gonna need people on his side.
I agree with you on every except alejandro going after the cia. There's no way he would go up against him. Matt is to loyal to america to let him do that. Both movies have been realistic so far. But if they did that plot of alejandro going against the cia. That would change the whole realistic theme of these movies. I'm guessing alejandro will just raise miguel as an assassin and go after the cartel he wants. I'm sure the cia will say sorry to alejandro or something wnd they will make up
The ending is ambiguous you don't know what he did it could go that he's taking him under his wing or that he's going to really make him hurt for choosing that life, also the cheek shot as hard to believe as it was it is plausible and has happened many time captured on real dash cams, lastly John wick was captured and was saved by William defo it makes the movie more realistic in the sense that he's just human
What I love is that the reactors that want you to watch what they're reacting to give their opinions about the movie in their thumbnail....what the point of watching if I know that you like or dislike something B4 hand?
Emily Blunt originally agreed to return but Taylor Sheridan (the writer of both movies) couldn't figure out a good way to bring her character back without cheapening the end of the first movie. Logically, her character's arc with Brolin and Del Toro's characters should be done. (edited for mistake)
Both movies portrayed the dark reality of cartel violence. Sometimes everyone, even a trained operator, ends up shit creek without a paddle... And sorry to say it, then you're just fucked. He wasn't supposed to be or going to be John Wick. The worst part of the movie is that the cartels really are like this: ruthless killers. And the US government isn't always much better, as depicted.
Denis Villeneueve (Dune) didn’t direct this one. So it makes sense the quality took a dip. Definitely recommend his other movies if you haven’t seen them (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Prisoners, Enemy, Incendies)
The quality took a dip, yeah but the movie is definitely not dissapointing. Both of them kept laughing throughout the movie like it's a comedy. Smiling, making jokes and laughing, even at the end when he gets shot in the face.
I agree. Sequel was kind of letdown but you gotta say First one was masterpiece and how disturbing it was about reality. The second one seem more like fictional thriller while the prequel was more like real life brutality of cartels & CIA
I thought you guys were completely off about Alejandro's character being some kind of john wick super assassin. I also think you got the ending wrong... Alejandro says 'let's talk about your future' in a pretty sinister tone, implying that he doesn't have one, as the deep music tones and he ominously closes the door behind him. I took this to mean he was about to kill or torture Miguel to get info about the Cartel. Getting revenge on the cartel is still his main goal.
Watch hell or high water or wind river, they’re from the same writer as sicario and are part of a thematic American frontier trilogy. Both of those movies are just as good as sicario and received universal acclaim
If you want Benicio del Toro, you have to watch, The Way of the Gun. I loved it. Check out the guy in the glasses white Josh Brolin's team. That's Michael Weston from Burn Notice. He also did the voice of that computer head guy in Invisible.
I don't feel you completely hate on the movie and I don't feel your criticism was unwarranted. It still looks like you enjoyed it. I hope for a 3. movie where Alejandro goes after the US government, Bourne style.
The reason Alejandro crawls and moves is because he knows that a moving target is harder to kill. Also he knows that the kids are amateurs. So it’s harder for them to actually make a kill shot. So actually he did survive off of skill & drive.
The sad thing is that they don't understand that actual well trained Mexican soldier's get captured/abducted by the cartel and executed. They kept smiling, laughing or making jokes when Alejandro was trying to survive his gunshot wound to the face, they didn't appreciate the movie at all and say it's dissapointing..
I know that sicario is a better made film simply because of the ridiculous talent behind it, but I actually prefer watching this one way more as it's less relentlessly depressing and I think the two stories of the teenagers being affected by the cartel in different ways really gets to me more than Kate just being dragged around
was a great movie. Alejandro was still himself. the girl's father was not the one responsible for the death of the family, that was closed in the first one. this was simply to instigate a war. Alejandro doesn't see her has a likeness to his daughter, but more a literally victim. What occurred in the first movie was to send a message....this allowed him to be shown to not just be a badass, but also someone who does have ethics. the ending, 1 year later, based on how the kid looked, he did, in fact, remain with the cartel and had "moved up" in the ranks as it were. So was no real surprise. Alejandro's supposed death, well, wasn't gonna get out of that scenario....John Wick would not have gotten out of it either. Oh, Matt Graver is in NO way an FBI agent, just fyi.
Miguel was already in actual training as a sicario on the start of the movie. The meeting at the mall where he was surprised by the car was intentional (Miguel already knew Alejandro beforehand) and Alejandro was just informing Miguel to be wary of the guys inside the car (Josh Brolin and company). Alejandro was just showing him the way to being a Sicario, thats why he asked "so you wanna be a Sicario" at the end.
Miguel is the kid from the first movie his dad was the police officer that Alejandro killed in the first movie. So yeah he was the kid playing soccer at the end of the first movie
Watch "Sin City" the directors cut and "Annihilation". 💡 (What happened to the "Predators" movie? Y'all never answer comments and will start something and end it and you never hear anything about it ever again)
You guys are correct. In the first movie Alejandro seemed invincible. In the second movie, he was very weak. The ending was BS. There was supposed to be a third movie but I think the audience hated it too much to continuue.
Benicio has been around for ages with he's movies right from the 80s and has co stared with the likes of johanny depp, sir Anthony Hopkins to Sean Penn even Jack Nicholasan Such a talented actor and has won an oscar,golden globe,bafta and other awards for he's amazing work in movies Fun fact him & josh brolin have been good friends for so long they've been acting along side for years
I first saw him as the SLIMY goon in Licence to kill. He was the one who threatened Carey Lowell's character with his trademark switchblade and started a hilarious bar fight. He also shared the most memorable scene from the movie with her right before she kills him. He was trying to make James Bond fall into a shredder and laughed at her for coming to his rescue too late. He said 'You're dead!" She replied "You took the words right out of my mouth" Then she unloaded her derringer into him and he fell into the shredder. Most brutal death of a Bond villain in my opinion. Ouch...
A couple things I think you’re missing. He decided to save the girl because he thats what Alejandro was trying to do. As far as Matt knows, Alejandro died trying. Matt thinking he’s dead works out better, as now nobody is looking for him.
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I'm thinking more about Alejandro training Miguel and use his position as a member of the Cartel to deal with the other cartels, while Alejandro gonna go for revenge against Matt, probably gonna forgive him since he saved Isabel from getting "spotless". F Cynthia, Alejandro can kill her for all I care.
I still love this movie, but one thing i never got was that why would Alejandro need to get "smuggled" over the boarder. his Charactor would surley be able to figure out how to get over safe and remain invisible. also the cheek shot. i see that as a "if the charactor dies off screen" situation. the covered face was an artistic choice as it would keep the veiwer geussing as to whether or not that really happened. but really they didn't notice that he was shot in the cheek and not the head. first one is still the best but its a worthy sequel in my opinion.
This is not Part too. This is a separate movie. This is a remake. the DVD Case does not say Sicario 2. Watch interviews they say nothing to do with the First one.
I didn't love the sequel though I think it was okay, but I think your interpratation of him taking miguel as his apprentice was mistaken. The way I took it was that he was going to kill him and that's why he closed the door on his future.
I saw it as pretty obviously the other way round, the entire film we have seen how Alejandro is burnt with the US government and no longer an asset and therefore they need a young impressionable person like Miguel to dismantle the cartel from the inside, exactly like how Matt "made Alejandro"
The reason this was disappointing for me was because there were no plans to put out a third film. I wanted to see Alejandro "turn" the boy so he would become a "falcone" or spy for the Mexican government. That sounds like the most likely plot IF they had pursued a third film. The film felt like it had a limb chopped off near the end, like they wanted it to continue but then we get to the end where he meets the kid.
The first is excellent. This one was good. Good is still good, but it's not excellent. Josh and Benicio were both doing their thing, but look at the changes between the films. See which ones came back from the director, director of photography, composer, and others. Lots of changes behind the camera -- and big theme changes. The first was a thriller. This one was an action film. Two different genres of film. Also, big time unrealistic right wing propaganda, but that pays the bills in this increasingly reactionary world. As for Isobel's character; damn, girl had the worst day of school ever. Insulted. Got in a fight. Got sent to the principal's office. Her Wifi went out. Got in a car accident. Got her bodyguards killed. Got kidnapped. Taken to another country. Misled into believing that she was saved. Got in a convoy that was attacked by heavy weapons. Ran away. Got picked up by a spooky cartel goon who was bleeding. Had that guy's brains blow out all over her. And then got kidnapped again by Alejandro. And then got a haircut. Then tried to sneak across the border, and kidnapped a third time. Then was in another convoy that was attacked. And then kidnapped by the US government. She also probably didn't get a chance to finish her homework for school the next day.
My dads old agency is in this show which is the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) and I know because I’m a son of a real former DEA agent and my dad was DEA for 28 years and he was assigned in Los Angeles San Francisco Hawaii and Miami Florida and he’s lost agents before
I’d you want some good movies go watch the other 2 movies in the thematic trilogy from Taylor Sheridan, sicario 2 isn’t part of that trilogy. It’s sicario/hell or high water/wind river, all phenomenal movies that received pretty much universal acclaim, all written by Taylor Sheridan and wind river is directed by him too. Just fuckin stellar movies yet for some reason people only do sicario and ignore hell or high water and wind river even tho they’re just as good. Sicario 2 is a solid movie but it’s absolutely not on the level of sicario or hell or high water/wind river. Movies all have incredible casts too.
Americans are spoiled by the good guy always winning. They don't understand anything else. In a foreign film I saw, a military vet tries to rescue his murdered best friends little brother from a violent street gang. He goes into the building, takes out some guys. During his shootouts he eventually gets hit. He take cover to reload. And while struggling to reload, he just stops moving. He bled out and dies with his gun in hand. Bad guy walks away with his arm around little brother. The End. Another move had an epic fist fight where the cop beats the snot out of the bad guy. As the bad guy is out on the floor, the good guy stands there catching his breath. The bad guy gets up and pushes him through a high rise window and he falls to his death. The twist was he landed on the car with the bad guys family in it killing everybody inside. The good guy wins because their reaction is what you get if they don't. He's no super hero and he's no magician. He was unarmed in another country surrounded by cartel. The way he was recognized was dumb and them killing an American police or solder was dumb, because they would get messed up. On their side of the border or on the other side of the border. That cartel left those guys tied up for killing and kidnapping those Black folks. They don't want American smoke!
This reaction was horrible. You guys didn't even understand the movie or the character Alejandro. Alejandro gets shot in the face and you both say that he should be like john wick and survive by pure skill, not by luck. Actual, well trained Mexican soldier's do get captured/abducted by the cartel and executed. This movie is realistic and not whatever you both are thinking. Yall also kept smiling, laughing and making jokes throughout the movie and at the end like it's a comedy, even in serious moments. And then calling the movie dissapointing is so wrong. It was great, not as great as the first one but it was great. People that say that sicario 2 was dissapointing are people that just did not understand the movie. Honestly, you both are horrible at reviewing movies..
So the scene with the girl in school is the bottom line for most children of powerful or influential parents. She is very bold for a reason. most of the parents were not just given that power that had to earn it. because a parent tries to give their child a better life then what they had, the child does not have to experience the same trails and heartaches to become strong in a world of lions. Instead they are just simply told everyday of their lives that they are a lion and should act as such. Regardless if they have the physical capabilities or if they are male or female, you have to have the heart and understanding as such hence why the girl did not back down or show any fear towards the other student or the principal because she has been told all her life that sheep get ate.
Alejandro, and Matt were friends. Yes, they had the professional relationship, but Matt actually cared about him. Seeing him shot down like that, and the whole situation of burning Alejandro and the girl... Matt did what he felt was right in that situation. I disagree that it was out of character.
From what I heard is that this movie has nothing to do with the first one, both movies are "what if" scenarios to hunt down the people responsible for Alejandros family. So yeah, there's nothing to link 1 and 2 together.
Yea it's not good in my opinion coz this is just a studio sequel. This was not part of Taylor and Denis' plan. Taylor just wrote this because the studio threw him a bunch of cash. The actual sequels for Sicario are 'Hell or High Water' and 'Wind Rive'r. They're totally different films from Sicario but they're a trilogy in a way that it tells a story about the American Frontier and its fucked up system
I think he took him under his wing..cuz he was a kid. And he executed a human being, and after that he still continued to live that life....he's perfect recruit...
