Triple 9 (2016)

Very disappointing...

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Triple 9 is a movie that has mostly been forgotten. It did poor at the box office, got mixed reviews and didn't do enough to get major attention, but this is one the critics were a bit too harsh on. Triple 9 is by no means a masterpiece, but it is none the less thrilling, suspenseful and mostly well done. The film is set in Atlanta where a group of criminals attempts to pull of a huge heist and part of that heist is getting the police to all be drawn to a code 999, officer down. The plot itself is rather interesting and is a main reason for keeping viewer attention and interest to the story. The cast is great all around. Woody Harrelson might come off as a bit over the top, but he was none the less entertaining. The cast does a great job even with the script being just, fine. It isn't an awful script, but there issues with pacing that stand out, but they aren't enough to truly affect the scenes that transpire throughout. The direction is pretty great for the whole film. All action scenes are very well done with a ton of suspense and the violence is very much a strong addition. The violence may be too much for some, but I thought it was done very well. The editing during these action scenes was pretty excellent, the opening heist was my favorite part of the movie and that was helped by the solid editing and crisp direction. The editing during dialogue scenes was not as good, but also not enough to take me out of the movie. Although some scenes might not be as necessary as other's nothing felt severely out of a place. If the actions scenes weren't as excellent as they are these issues might stand out more.Overall, Triple 9 is no Ocean's Eleven or Reservoir Dogs, but is a great film, with several great moments of tense action, strong performances and solid direction. There are issues with the script and editing during dialogue scenes wasn't the best, but in the end I would be lying if I said I didn't think Triple 9 was a great movie that I think got less praise than it deserved. Again this is not a perfect film, but it's definitely better than the okay movie the critics made it to be.

This film is bad, I'm unsure how they misused so much talent.It's just a badly written predictable film populated by stereotypical characters - the explosives expert you crossed gives you a package? Christ, he may as well have written 'BOMB' in massive letters on it or had a comically large fuse sticking out of it.From time to time great actors make poor films, in this case, that plural is true - many actors in this are great but my god did all of their 'miss' columns get an addition when this wrappedI saw this at a secret screening roughly around the time of Deadpool' release, it was never going to be that but the screen was packed with people thinking or hoping it may just be that but no.I have yet to see so many people exit a film in such a steady stream - it took a good 5 minutes for people to exit when 'Triple 9' came up and people after the initial exodus kept getting up and leaving until I think the last person who didn't stick it out left FORTY-FIVE MINUTES into the film, this is about 40% of the film, I have never seen a film be that bad that someone has got to that point and not been able to endure the rest of it and better yet, the cinema I saw it in had two screens playing this as demand was so high and BOTH had this 'nope' occur with people leaving until quite a while into the filmI can't rate this 0/10 as there isn't an option but please know I absolutely am doing that with my '1'

A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town. Triple 9 looked like the kind of movie that was going to be a sure hit from the beginning especially with the cast that is surrounded by such as Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, Gal Gadot, Kate Winslet, Teresa Palmer, Clifton Collins Jr, Norman Reedus and Michael Kenneth Williams. Unfortunately the film had some pretty awful characters that acted like d*cks to everyone, a thin story that went nowhere most of the time and some actors were used pretty poorly such as Paul and Gadot and as for fans of Walking Dead and Reedus? Well don't have your hopes way high with his character. Except some good action sequences involving some of the main protagonists and a good performance by Affleck the rest of the film is very slow and at times very boring, the dialogue at times is pretty awful and Winslet feels miscasted and the ending of the film cuts way too fast and as the rest of it it's a huge disappointment. Triple 9 could have been a great film but the director and the writers clearly had no idea what the hell they were trying to do. (4/10)

For reasons unexplained, there was a decision to create some bizarre, totally out of place, religious Jewish Russian mafia. Having worked with some of them during my day job, the depiction of these Jewish villains was so pitiful bad that it immediately removed me from the movie. It could have been decent if pains weren't made to create such an artificial and unbelievable gang, complete with Yarmulkas. And then there is the denigration of blacks by these Jews and more I won't describe.Great cast. Strange story that is not believable, straight from the opening. A film has to be plausible in order to be accepted by the audience. But how would anyone believe the opening scene and the repercussions of greed which didn't translate into an immediate problem? This film doesn't even bother with making sure that those covering up a crime *wear gloves* when committing crimes in places they shouldn't be.The depiction of Hispanic people in Atlanta was also hilariously way over the top. Religious Jews are disgusting, disgraceful, racist people and Hispanics are all a bunch of ego driven mindless dumb thugs. Whomever was responsible for this mess and clearly anti-Semitic priority should have been tarred and feathered for wasting a good cast of actors. They should have paid more attention to tightening up a very loose script instead of creating even more outrageous stereotypes.