Triple 9 (2016)

recommended

Amateur movie with Big budget

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The acting in this movie is really good.

A group of former special ops lead by a crooked cop work for the "Russian Kosher-nostra" the Russian Jewish mafia in Atlanta. After pulling one heist, they are tasked with a second one where they would need a lot of time. They opt to create a diversion by killing a cop, creating a 999 call. This would give them the time.While we get that plan early, it isn't executed until late in the film. What the bad guys are up against is a salty Woody Harrelson detective with paid informants and quite the wordsmith. Outside of the Harrelson character, the film was a run of the mill crime drama/thriller.Guide: F-words. No sex or nudity.

The movie keeps you on your toes and has a ton of action, bad guys, good guys and everything in between. Casey Afleck plays his outsider cop character very well as is becoming customary as he climbs up the chart of best young actors.Honestly the story isn't anything inspirational or transforming and it's a bit violent and gory but if you're a fan of Afleck then it'll deliver.

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'

The opening scene is promising. It's a group of criminals that you find out are police officers are plotting to commit a difficult armed robbery. They decide that in spite of the odds they will go through with the plan. And what you eventually find out is that this film is just all about a group of characters who must obtain a McGuffin, no more no less.We then meet the woman who is calling the shots. The gritty film becomes laughable from there. Kate Winslet, looking nasty and wearing a gold Star of David pendant at least as large as a hockey puck is introduced, right after her two non-speaking thugs with cool haircuts and huge skull cap yarmulkas escort our black protagonist into the house. His half black son is being raised Jewish and also has a huge skull cap yarmulka on his head. Apparently all of this Russian mob also is connected with Israel. What did this have to do with the movie at all? At that point I could only wonder whether the film received financing from a middle east arab country or someone with a HUGE ax to grind with religious Jewish people and Israel. And that theme continues throughout the movie and right up front.There is nothing new as you move along. It's the same heavy handed message that there is no honor among thieves and criminals. I won't give away the ending. It's no big reveal you'll guess part of the explosive climax which doesn't make much sense if the characters are consistent with how they are presented. This is such a colossal waste of talent. A cast whose names are on some of the most well known and revered films of the past decade and the end result will only be memorable for how far out of the way the director goes to remind everyone that the most horrible criminal animals in this film are these reviled religious Jewish Israeli mobsters. Forgettable rubbish.