In Sicario: Day of the Soldado, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) is back and calls on the mysterious Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) to escalate the drug war in unscrupulous ways. In the original thriller, Sicario (2015), after an idealistic FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is recruited by a government task-force official (Josh Brolin) to pursue a drug lord, she begins a perilous mission that forces her to question everything she believes - and pits her against a shadowy consultant (Benicio Del Toro) with a dangerous agenda.