Violent, self-admiring sequel 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado' gets lost in the desert
The opening moments of "Sicario: Day of the Soldado" have an aggressive, almost swaggering topicality. A group of migrants is apprehended trying to cross the Mexico-U.S. border. Several men stride into a Kansas City store and blow themselves up, one of them - in a ghoulishly exploitative touch - pausing to mutter a prayer in Arabic and savor the dread of a woman and her young daughter. Thousands of miles away, a Somali prisoner undergoes some exquisitely state-of-the-art torture, forced to watch a drone-camera feed as bombs drop on his family members, one by one.
His torturer is Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), whom you may recall as the cocksure CIA tough from the first "Sicario."
