"To take down the system, they must become its darkest part."
In Sicario 3, the covert war on the cartels spirals into chaos — not because it escalates, but because no one knows who’s still pulling the strings.
After vanishing at the end of Day of the Soldado, Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) returns from the shadows, scarred and colder than ever. But he's not back for revenge — he's back with a mission only he understands. The cartels have fragmented, splintered into smaller, more vicious factions. The lines between trafficker, politician, and CIA asset have fully blurred.
Meanwhile, federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) is fighting a losing battle to keep the operation contained. Leaks in Washington. Rogue field units. Allies turning into targets. When a high-level mole exposes a black-ops pipeline that traffics more than drugs — child soldiers, weapons tech, even bodies — Graver and Alejandro are forced to work together again. But this time, they’re hunting ghosts.
Across the scorched U.S.–Mexico border, where every favor costs blood, Sicario 3 builds toward a reckoning not just between nations — but between two men shaped by violence, betrayal, and the question: How far can you go before you become the thing you swore to destroy?
Dark, taut, and morally brutal, this final chapter closes the trilogy not with justice — but consequence.