CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) returns to enlist a mysterious operative, known as Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), to investigate a Mexican drug cartel that has been smuggling terrorists into the United States, highlighted by a suicide bombing at a Kansas City grocery store that kills fifteen innocent civilians in the process. Their actions escalate the cartel situation further, resulting in various double-crossings and the occasional kidnapping. A thoroughly worthy film, but one that, in the eyes of some, doesn’t quite reach the dizzying heights of its predecessor.