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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-06 (Monday)
Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 11:53:25 -0400
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On Tue, 7 May 2024 07:22:11 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 5/7/24 6:32 AM, shawn wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 7 May 2024 05:43:24 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5/6/24 10:54 PM, shawn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did a rewatch of SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO which was a revisit to
>>>> the same team we saw in the previous movie. This time the starter
>>>> event was a terrorist bombing in Kansas that appears to have been done
>>>> by people that crossed the Mexico border and been at least partially
>>>> funded by a Mexican cartel. This leads the US to decide to start a war
>>>> between the cartels by doing various things. There's a number of
>>>> events that occur in the movie that shows how you can never trust the
>>>> government to have your back. Good movie and well worth watching, but
>>>> don't go in expecting lots of action. There is some but it's more a
>>>> mood movie with some great mood setting music.
>>>
>>> Yeah, this flick is mostly good. I just don't like the ending much.
>> 
>> Which part of the ending. The final bit where the two meet up to set
>> up the kid's future? Or the way they treat the main guy?
>
>The way they retconned one character, who should be dead, still being 
>alive (IIRC...).
>
>

Ah, but if they killed that character off how would there be a third
film. That and the wound that they showed is survivable. Of course
getting that wound is incredibly lucky. That and the fact that he
didn't move after being shot when that wound shouldn't have knocked
him out.