10 Movie Moments You've Always Misunderstood

1. Alejandro Doesn't Recruit Miguel At The End - Sicario: Day Of The Soldado

What Everybody Thinks

The thriller sequel's final scene takes place a year after the main story, with young Mexican-American Miguel (Elijah Rodriguez) now a fully tatted-up gangster.

At the mall, he's confronted by Alejandro (Benicio del Toro), the man he shot a year prior, who tells him to sit down before uttering the film's final words, "So, you wanna be a sicario. Let's talk about your future", as Alejandro closes the door.

A popular interpretation of the scene is that it's actually a sequel-baiting tease for a third movie where Alejandro trains Miguel as his protege, with Alejandro apparently realising that Miguel deliberately aimed to wound rather than kill him. Right.

The Truth

Aside from how absurd it sounds for a boy with no formal weapons training to "shoot to wound" or for Alejandro to appreciate this, there's no reason to believe that he would want to take on a protege.

After all, the film ends with Alejandro presumed dead and effectively off the grid, so quite why he'd want to risk bringing heat onto himself by operating with a youngster in tow is anyone's guess.

It's far, far more likely that he killed Miguel - after all, Alejandro was shown murdering children at the end of the first film, so there's no reason for him not to go there.

And given how his livelihood is now predicated on him having no living ties aware of his existence, it's tough to imagine him trusting the punk enough to actually let him live.

Miguel was probably folded into the trunk of a car and never saw the light of day again.