Sicario: Day of the Soldado was one of the most disjointed sequels from its preceding movie I've ever seen

I watched Sicario and Sicario 2 Day of the Soldado pretty spaced out from one another, and wow, I'm just struck by how they don't feel even remotely like they're related to one another. If I watched them alone from one another, or if the characters didn't have the same actors/names, I would've easily thought they had nothing to do with one another. It felt like literally the only things that made it a sequel were they told us that was the case, they used the same names and actors, and that’s it.​- The goals of the characters are drastically different as they're trying to take down one gang/gang leader in order to create a dominant hierarchy and impose order. In the second, they're trying to pit gangs against one another and foster chaos. Completely contradictory- In the first Alejandro cares about nothing about anything but revenge, going so far as to kill the wife and children of a gang leader. In the second one, he weirdly develops a father daughter type relationship with a gang leader’s daughter that feels incredibly forced and out of character.- There are no references or allusions or comments about literally anything that happened in the previous film or any character development from previous film- There are no plot lines and ideas that seemed to carry over from one to the next.- The tone and themes felt dramatically different.​I could go on but man, it just felt like they called it a sequel and used the same few characters, but nothing about it felt similar.​How did you all feel about how they related? Any other sequels in which you've felt have been very disjointed? via /r/movies http://bit.ly/2wHNvjl