Sicario 2

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Movie
German title Sicario 2
Original title Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Country of production United States
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2018
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
JMK 16
Rod
Director Stefano Sollima
script Taylor Sheridan
production Basil Iwanyk ,
Thad Luckinbill ,
Trent Luckinbill ,
Edward L. McDonnell ,
Molly Smith
music Hildur Guðnadóttir
camera Dariusz Wolski
cut Matthew Newman
occupation
chronology

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Sicario (2015)

Sicario 2 (original title Sicario: Day of the Soldado ) is the sequel to the thriller Sicario . The action film was released in US cinemas on June 29, 2018 and in German cinemas on July 19, 2018. Directed by Stefano Sollima , the script was written like the previous Taylor Sheridan .

action

The Mexican drug cartels are also increasingly smuggling people across the border between the United States and Mexico . After an Islamist suicide attack in a US supermarket, the cartels are suspected of smuggling terrorists. The US Defense commissioned CIA - Paramilitary -Offizier Matt Graver, a war between the drug cartels to ignite. Graver suggests kidnapping the 16-year-old daughter Isabel of drug lord Carlos Reyes and blaming it on the Matamoros cartel . For this kidnapping he recruits the mercenary Alejandro Gillick, who still has an outstanding account with the Mexican cartels because of the murder of his family.

In a parallel plot, Miguel, a young Latino living in the USA, is recruited as a people smuggler. In a near miss in a parking lot in the USA, he meets Gillick and Graver by chance.

Isabel's kidnapping goes as planned and the girl is taken to Texas, where she is played to have been freed from the DEA . Graver and Gillick bring Isabel back to Mexico, supposedly to hand her over to the authorities there. The real plan, however, is to get them into Matamoros Territory to further fuel the conflict. The convoy of vehicles is ambushed, however, in which the accompanying corrupt Mexican federal police officers open fire on the US soldiers. While the Americans can kill the attackers in a firefight, Isabel flees. Gillick offers to find Isabel, and Graver gives him a GPS transmitter to activate when they arrive at the border.

Back in the United States, the Secretary of Defense orders Graver to end the operation. The killing of the Mexican police creates serious diplomatic difficulties. In the meantime, it has also emerged that the suicide bombers in the supermarket were native Americans and had not even been smuggled across the Mexican border. Graver is now supposed to kill the girl and Gillick in order to cover the tracks and to be able to credibly deny any responsibility of the US government . Graver's objections are not accepted by his manager, Cynthia Foards.

Gillick has since found Isabel and is starting to feel guilty about dragging the young girl into it. Isabel recognizes Gillick as the prosecutor whose family was murdered by her father's cartel. Graver contacts Gillick and orders him to kill Isabel. Gillick resists, however, and asks Graver to help him get her across the border, but Graver refuses.

On the way to the border, Gillick activates the GPS transmitter and hides it in Isabel's shoe, whereupon Graver and his team set out to kill the two. Gillick and Isabel go to the smugglers' gang where Miguel works. This recognizes Gillick again and reports this to the leader. The smugglers recognize Isabel Reyes and capture them both. Miguel is supposed to kill Gillick, but the bullet only pierces his mouth. The smugglers still think Gillick is dead, leave him behind and continue with Isabel. Based on the situation reports provided by a drone , the US soldiers also believe Gillick is dead and start tracking the smugglers.

Meanwhile, Miguel breaks away from the smugglers. Shortly afterwards, the US helicopters catch up with the smugglers and kill everyone except Isabel. Graver goes against his orders and takes the girl to the United States to take her into a witness protection program .

Gillick regains consciousness, frees himself from his bonds and drives towards the USA. A year later he visits Miguel and wants to talk to him about his future as a hit man.

production

In Sicario 2 is a continuation of the thriller Sicario on drug war in the border area between Mexico and Arizona . Directed by Stefano Sollima , after Denis Villeneuve was initially intended for this post. The script was written like its predecessor Taylor Sheridan . Sicario , followed by Hell or High Water and Wind River , formed the first part of the American Frontier trilogy. In autumn 2015, the filmmakers announced a sequel to their material, which should nonetheless tell a story on its own. In March 2018, Sony released the sequel's official content description.

The music for the film was composed by the Icelandic girl Hildur Guðnadóttir . The soundtrack, which includes 14 pieces of music, was released by Varese Sarabande on June 29, 2018.

Three actors from the first film return in Sicario 2 . Benicio del Toro took over the role of Alejandro Gillick again, while Josh Brolin again plays his CIA liaison Matt Graver and Jeffrey Donovan can be seen again in the role of CIA agent Steve Forsing. Emily Blunt , the leading actress from Sicario , did not return for the sequel, unlike the two male protagonists, because the filmmakers said their part of the story was finished. According to the director Sollima, Blunt embodies a moral authority in Sicario, which is no longer applicable in the successor Sicario 2 . Catherine Keener and Matthew Modine are new.

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Alexander Löwe and the dialogue direction by Joachim Tennstedt on behalf of FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH, Berlin. Klaus-Dieter Klebsch lends his voice to Matt Graver in the German version, while Alejandro Gillick is spoken by Torsten Michaelis .

The shooting took place in Mexico City , including on Avenida Santa Fe 485 in the Cuajimalpa district.

A first trailer for the film was published on December 19, 2017, and a second followed in March 2018. The film was released in US cinemas on June 29, 2018 and in German cinemas on July 19, 2018. The film was also shown in Saudi Arabia from June 29, 2018, making it one of the first films to be released there in decades after film theaters were banned in the country in the 1980s. A preview of the film took place on June 18, 2018 in New York.

reception

Age rating

In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany, the film received a release from the age of 18 . Daniel Krüger notes in the Musikexpress that when a hole in the head of a person who has been shot is shown in an agonizingly long close-up or Sollima shows an assassin blowing himself up next to a toddler, then this raises the question of whether the story is not included less drastic images would work.

Reviews and grossing results

Sicario 2 received a 63% positive rating from Rotten Tomatoes based on 265 rated reviews. The side thinks the film is “less subversive” than its predecessor, but works as a “stylish, dynamic” thriller, although its “amoral manliness mania” makes for a gloomy sighting. Metacritic gave a Metascore of 61 based on 50 reviews.

The first reactions after the removal of the social media embargo were excellent. Steven Weintraub from Collider said: “I'm happy to report: Sicario: Day of the Soldado is * extremely * well done and has fantastic performances by Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro . As you might have expected, Taylor Sheridan's script is excellent. I really hope the film goes well so that the trilogy can be completed. "

Benicio Del Toro took over the role of Alejandro Gillick again

Sascha Westphal from epd Film thinks that, like Samuel Fuller , who established this form of genre cinema, which was heated to the extreme in the 1950s and 1960s, Taylor Sheridan and Stefano Sollima drove the horror to the extreme, but the sensationalistic is never an end in itself: "The two filmmakers resort to the arousal strategies of the populists and their media followers in order to then tell about how fear and anger, disgust and despair can be instrumentalized."

The film critic Antje Wessels rates the film with 3.5 out of 5 stars on film starts and notes that Sicario 2 has become a completely different film than its predecessor, which may be a bit irritating at first glance, but new, also very exciting perspectives on the cold-blooded The hustle and bustle of the smugglers' cartels said: “Anyone who wants to put it negatively could say that Sicario 2 lacks everything that made up the first part. Thanks to the rousing Emily Blunt in the role of a highly committed FBI agent who does not give up her ideals, Sicario always sprayed a touch of hope between all the violence and unscrupulousness. "Anyone familiar with the darkly pessimistic work of director Stefano Sollima, According to Wessels, it will hardly be surprising that this last spark of confidence in Sicario 2 has given way to an omnipresent sadness: "An unequal fight between David and Goliath has turned into a hopeless Sisyphus work."

The film service writes that Sicario 2, like the first film, tries “to portray a socio-moral crisis in the guise of a tough action film”. The staging “lacks, however, the sense of abstraction that enabled the first Sicario film to reflect more intensively on real conditions. In contrast, the successor succumbs more often to the clichés of superficial action and war films. "

The editorial team of Cinema also compares the film with its predecessor and says that the difference lies in the perspective, because while the first film presented the hopelessness and dilemma of the drug war in general, Taylor Sheridan Sicario 2 is a character study: “In the center there is now antihero Alejandro, whom the director Stefano Sollima (...), who is very familiar with mafia fabrics, gives enough space to develop and develop. Leading actor Benicio del Toro embodies this man with a terrific mixture of threatening violence and vulnerable melancholy. Even in the previous one, its tragic past flashed out occasionally. Here now the viewer gets a deeper insight into the soul life of the contract killer. "

Time Out's Cath Clarke says of the leading actor that Benicio del Toro is the Ernest Hemingway cinema badass : “The less he says, the better he is. He's doing his most convincing job while looking like he's nodding off. "

Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly says of the newcomer Elijah Rodriguez that he plays the teenager Miguel powerfully and a little sad.

The worldwide revenue from cinema shows is $ 75.8 million. In Germany, the film recorded 155,473 visitors.

continuation

A third film, which will close the Sicario saga about del Toro's character, is being planned.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Sicario 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 180433 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Sicario 2 . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c Sicario 2: Soldado In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ Oliver Armknecht: Wind River In: film-rezensions.de, December 29, 2017.
  5. ^ Matt Goldberg: Taylor Sheridan on 'Wind River' and How It Connects to 'Sicario' and 'Hell or High Water' In: collider.com, August 4, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b c d Sicario 2: tough trailer and official plot revealed In: filmfutter.com, March 20, 2018.
  7. ↑ 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado' soundtrack details. In: filmmusicreporter.com, May 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ Sicario 2 - That's why Emily Blunt is not in the sequel. In: moviepilot.de. July 3, 2018, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Bruce Fretts: New Trailer: 'Sicario 2: Soldado' In: New York Times, December 19, 2017.
  10. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  11. ^ First cinema screening in Saudi Arabia for 35 years In: Zeit Online, April 21, 2018.
  12. ↑ https://deadline.com/2018/06/sicario-day-of-the-soldado-saudi-arabia-release-date-1202415621/
  13. ↑ http://www.justjared.com/2018/06/19/benicio-del-toro-josh-brolin-team-up-for-sicario-day-of-the-soldado-new-york-screening/
  14. ↑ Daniel Krüger: Review of Sicario 2 In: Musikexpress , July 10, 2018.
  15. ↑ Sicario 2 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)Template: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  16. ↑ Sicario 2 at Metacritic (English)
  17. ↑ Jacob Stolworthy: Sicario 2 review round-up: Day of the Soldado acclaimed as 'excellent' by critics. In: independent.co.uk, June 15, 2018.
  18. ↑ Sascha Westphal: Review of Sicario 2 In: epd Film, July 10, 2018.
  19. ^ Antje Wessels: Sicario 2. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  20. ^ Sicario 2. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
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  22. ↑ Cath Clarke: Sicario: Day of the Soldado. In: timeout.com, June 25, 2018.
  23. ↑ Darren Franich: 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado' throws a grenade into the immigration debate: EW review. In: Entertainment Weekly, June 20, 2018.
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