If you've read through my reviews, I like a good action movie. This was not a good action movie. It had its merits, but the story was all over the place and jarring. Most of it was just positioning and posturing and not action or cool character scenes. It was a very strange movie, actually. It had interesting build up to a constant disappointment. The acting was pretty good, though. But it felt like it was trying to be a Rambo movie but just failed at it.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado adds to the characters introduced in Sicario (translated to 'hitman'). In the original, we have Emily Blunt's character in over her head among elite military personnel, including the Sicario. In this, we have a situation that requires that same team, but without the juxtaposition of Blunt's character. In this, they're just doing a mission. They're hoping to start a war amongst the rival Mexican drug cartels, so they kidnap the daughter of the head of a cartel and make it look like it's the rival cartel. Things get hairy and they have to troubleshoot.
I like movies about exceptional characters, usually, but this one didn't really allow them to be that exceptional. The mission itself is rather simple, but their plans after make little sense. I don't mind the trope of getting orders they don't like, but in this, they have to follow orders that make no sense at all with justifications that just made me roll my eyes. For the build-up and the quality of actors in this, I'd say that 'disappointing' is an understatement for this movie.