TOM CLANCY'S WITHOUT REMORSE feels like a throwback in all the wrong ways
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
There is no need to live in the shadow of old white dudes like Tom Clancy and there is no sense in adapting this garbage in the 21st century.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Directed by Stefano Sollima (2018)
Starring Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Keener
Running time 2 hours 2 minutes
MPAA rating: R
by Hunter Bush
Before this evening, before seeing it, I thought everything about Sicario: Day of the Soldado was...a bit of a mess. The sequel to a movie that doesn't need one, Sicario 2 (as it was originally marketed) traded in the numeric for a subtitle, the linguistic hodgepodge "Day of the Soldado" (soldier). Why not just pick a lane and call it either Day of the Soldier or Dia Del Soldado? It probably has to do with Sony wanting to build a franchise on the good Sicario name and worrying that an all-Spanish title would alienate audiences. That might seem pessimistic but it's obviously the direction Sony & Co. want to head in. Intellectually, that bothers me. It's an obvious, and somewhat clumsy cash-grab. But, if Sicario: Day of the Soldado is what cash-grabs look like in 2018, I'm...kind of fine with it.
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