Due to scheduling conflicts with Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve does not return to direct.
Instead, burden is placed on the shoulders of Stefano Sollima.
Emily Blunt is also consigned to memory, as character had apparently come full circle.
Benicio Del Toro - Alejandro
Josh Brolin - Matt Graver
Isabela Moner - Isabel Reyes
Jeffrey Donovan - Steve Forsing
Catherine Keener - Cynthia Foards
Each year, thousands of people are transported between the United States and Mexico in exchange for money.
This process is controlled by Mexican cartels.
In response to a suicide bombing in Kansas, CIA agent Graver is given the green light to fight drug cartels suspected of trafficking Islamic terrorists over the US border.
Graver meets Alejandro in Bogatá, Colombia, who is more than happy to start a war with 'everyone'.
Mexico City.
Alejandro murders a high-profile cartel lawyer and team snatch Isabel Reyes, (daughter of a cartel big cheese), in a false flag operation.
They take her back to Texas to make her think she was 'rescued' from her father's enemies, rather than kidnapped.
On the way to transporting Isabel to the Mexican border, visibility on road causes chaos and they're forced to kill dozens of Mexican police.
Isabela legs it and Alejandro goes after her alone.
Foards tells Graver that massacre has been plastered all over the news and seen as an act of war on the Mexican government.
After finding Isabela, Alejandro contacts Graver, who informs that suicide bombing had jack shit to do with the cartel, but was masterminded by a non-smuggled group of terrorists.
To ease the situation, the Secretary of Defense orders to 'cut all ties' with Isabela, but Alejandro refuses and goes rogue.
Graver assembles his team to hunt them down.
Disguised as illegals, Alejandro and Isabel attempt to cross the US border, but Mexican-American teenager Miguel (who we've seen a few times), recognises Alejandro and alerts cartel boss.
Miguel is forced to execute a hooded Alejandro and terrorists take Isabela away.
However, guilt comes racing to the surface and wee lad abandons truck.
Pretty soon, we see Alejandro survived gunshot, because jawbone took a dose of lead poisoning.
Using signal from Isabel's GPS transmitter, Graver and loyal crew surprise fleeing transport and wipe out terrorist group.
Graver travels back to America and presumably places Isabela on witness protection.
In the aftermath, Miguel meets a healed Alejandro, who asks 'so you want to be a sicario?'
Door is slammed shut.
Backwards step
Not a disaster by any stretch, but doesn't hold a torch to masterful predecessor.
Amidst pacing issues, sparse action is well-staged and occasionally brutal.
Del Toro and Brolin (again excellent), are given strong support from Moner and Donovan.
Taylor Sherdian's screenplay is pretty solid, but will come under fire (no pun intended), for racial stereotyping.
The third suggests Alejandro may lead his own black ops army against the US government.
Such a radical change in direction may not be the worst idea.
Instead, burden is placed on the shoulders of Stefano Sollima.
Emily Blunt is also consigned to memory, as character had apparently come full circle.
Benicio Del Toro - Alejandro
Josh Brolin - Matt Graver
Isabela Moner - Isabel Reyes
Jeffrey Donovan - Steve Forsing
Catherine Keener - Cynthia Foards
Each year, thousands of people are transported between the United States and Mexico in exchange for money.
This process is controlled by Mexican cartels.
In response to a suicide bombing in Kansas, CIA agent Graver is given the green light to fight drug cartels suspected of trafficking Islamic terrorists over the US border.
Graver meets Alejandro in Bogatá, Colombia, who is more than happy to start a war with 'everyone'.
Mexico City.
Alejandro murders a high-profile cartel lawyer and team snatch Isabel Reyes, (daughter of a cartel big cheese), in a false flag operation.
They take her back to Texas to make her think she was 'rescued' from her father's enemies, rather than kidnapped.
On the way to transporting Isabel to the Mexican border, visibility on road causes chaos and they're forced to kill dozens of Mexican police.
Isabela legs it and Alejandro goes after her alone.
Foards tells Graver that massacre has been plastered all over the news and seen as an act of war on the Mexican government.
After finding Isabela, Alejandro contacts Graver, who informs that suicide bombing had jack shit to do with the cartel, but was masterminded by a non-smuggled group of terrorists.
To ease the situation, the Secretary of Defense orders to 'cut all ties' with Isabela, but Alejandro refuses and goes rogue.
Graver assembles his team to hunt them down.
Disguised as illegals, Alejandro and Isabel attempt to cross the US border, but Mexican-American teenager Miguel (who we've seen a few times), recognises Alejandro and alerts cartel boss.
Miguel is forced to execute a hooded Alejandro and terrorists take Isabela away.
However, guilt comes racing to the surface and wee lad abandons truck.
Pretty soon, we see Alejandro survived gunshot, because jawbone took a dose of lead poisoning.
Using signal from Isabel's GPS transmitter, Graver and loyal crew surprise fleeing transport and wipe out terrorist group.
Graver travels back to America and presumably places Isabela on witness protection.
In the aftermath, Miguel meets a healed Alejandro, who asks 'so you want to be a sicario?'
Door is slammed shut.
Backwards step
Not a disaster by any stretch, but doesn't hold a torch to masterful predecessor.
Amidst pacing issues, sparse action is well-staged and occasionally brutal.
Taylor Sherdian's screenplay is pretty solid, but will come under fire (no pun intended), for racial stereotyping.
The third suggests Alejandro may lead his own black ops army against the US government.
Such a radical change in direction may not be the worst idea.
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