How can you go from that first movie to this mediocre action flick? I can't believe these two movies had the same writer. It's a decent action movie but that's about it.
They basically forced in another "top dog" cartel leader to justify Alejandro being involved again. Somehow this guy was also related to, apparently even ordered, the execution of his family, while the implication was clearly that he already killed that person in the first movie. We also never get to see or hear about this guy again because the entire movie revolves around his daughter and the plot simply never progresses beyond getting her over the border to the US, back to Mexico again (up until this point the movie still made sense), aaaand back over the border to the US again. I saw someone mention that they added more depth to Alejandro's character by telling us more about his backstory. We were told the same story we heard before but now his late daughter is also deaf. Definitely a major expansion on the Alejandro lore.
Other than that we get to see some Mexican-American kid who is somehow a complete degenerate cold-blooded killer when the situation asks for it. We never learn about his motivations beyond "money".
The main plot revolving around cartels importing terrorists is also completely thrown out of the window in an apparent twist but in reality it just felt like a lazy way to wrap up the story because the writer had no idea how to end it.
Review by TeubenVIP BlockedParent2023-09-10T02:39:04Z
How can you go from that first movie to this mediocre action flick? I can't believe these two movies had the same writer.
It's a decent action movie but that's about it.
They basically forced in another "top dog" cartel leader to justify Alejandro being involved again. Somehow this guy was also related to, apparently even ordered, the execution of his family, while the implication was clearly that he already killed that person in the first movie. We also never get to see or hear about this guy again because the entire movie revolves around his daughter and the plot simply never progresses beyond getting her over the border to the US, back to Mexico again (up until this point the movie still made sense), aaaand back over the border to the US again.
I saw someone mention that they added more depth to Alejandro's character by telling us more about his backstory. We were told the same story we heard before but now his late daughter is also deaf. Definitely a major expansion on the Alejandro lore.
Other than that we get to see some Mexican-American kid who is somehow a complete degenerate cold-blooded killer when the situation asks for it. We never learn about his motivations beyond "money".
The main plot revolving around cartels importing terrorists is also completely thrown out of the window in an apparent twist but in reality it just felt like a lazy way to wrap up the story because the writer had no idea how to end it.