However, after they cross into Mexico, the corrupt police escort turns against them and attacks the American armoured vehicles. They plan to leave her behind in a Mexican Federal Police depot located inside territory controlled by her father's rivals to further escalate the inter-cartel conflict. They take her to an American military base while the team organizes her return to Mexico. They stage a DEA raid and pretend to rescue her, making her believe that she had been captured by the Matamoros cartel. Graver, Gillick and their team take Isabel to a safe house in Texas. Gillick assassinates a high-profile lawyer of the Matamoros cartel in Mexico City while Graver and his team capture Isabel Reyes, the daughter of the kingpin of the Matamoros rival, Carlos Reyes (who ordered the killing of Gillick's family in the events leading up to the previous film), in a false flag operation. to maintain plausible deniability while combating the Mexican cartels. Graver also meets with PMC official or weapons trafficker Andy Wheeldon to secure mercenaries, helicopters, and military-grade communication equipment in order for the U.S. Graver and the Department of Defense decide the best option is to instigate a war between the major cartels, and Graver recruits operative Alejandro Gillick for the mission. In response, the United States government orders CIA officer Matt Graver to apply extreme measures to combat Mexican drug cartels who are suspected of having smuggled the terrorists across the U.S.-Mexico border. Ī suicide bombing in a Kansas City grocery store kills fifteen people. It received generally favorable reviews from critics. The film is dedicated to the memory of Jóhann Jóhannsson, the composer of the first film, who died in February 2018. Sicario: Day of the Soldado was released in the United States and Canada on June 29, 2018, by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label, while it was distributed internationally by Lionsgate (excluding Latin America and Spain). The story relates to the drug war at the U.S.-Mexico border and an attempt by the United States government to incite increased conflict among the cartels. A sequel to 2015's Sicario, the film features Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Donovan, and Raoul Trujillo reprising their roles, with Isabela Moner, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Catherine Keener joining the cast. Sicario: Day of the Soldado (titled Sicario 2: Soldado in the UK) is a 2018 American action-crime film directed by the Italian filmmaker Stefano Sollima and written by Taylor Sheridan.