Del Toro and Brolin are positioned as the cool anti-heroes who gets things done. Emily Blunt’s character does zero to forward the plot except get picked up by a cartel double agent and cry about the rules not being followed.

Yeah, any spinoff/sequel that says, “hey, let’s just focus on the cool badasses antagonists without the pesky protagonist at the center” is doomed for failure.  Did Sheridan forget that Brolin and del Toro’s characters were the villains??

No, no,  no, they all died under accidental but completely non-criminal circumstances.