Stefano Sollima's Sicario: Day of the Soldado may have been considered one of the best films of the year, had it been released in 2008. Although a sequel to an Oscar-nominated film from 2015, Day of the Soldado feels like a long-ago prequel from a previous era – albeit a recent one – of American filmmaking. It is a film about the politics and violence surrounding U.S./Mexico border security, but there is no talk of a border wall, of ICE agents, of families being separated. To be fair, screenwriter Taylor Sheridan likely penned his screenplay long before the current president was in office, and the U.S. began its campaign to increase the dark militancy of its border security, but recent developments in the real world make Sicario: Day of the Soldado feel instantly dated.
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