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Die russische Mafia hat die Unterwelt von Atlanta fest im Griff, nicht zuletzt dank korrupter Polizisten wie Marcus Belmont und Terrell Tompkins, die für Geld gelegentlich wegsehen oder sogar Jobs für die Mafia erledigen. Belmont ist daher gar. Triple 9 ist ein US-amerikanischer Action-Thriller von John Hillcoat aus dem Jahr Besetzung. Casey Affleck: Chris Allen; Chiwetel Ejiofor: Michael. Rolle: Sgt. Detective Jeffrey Allen. Chiwetel Ejiofor. Rolle: Michael Atwood. Norman Reedus. Rolle: Russel Welch. Aaron Paul. Rolle: Gabe Welch. Triple 9 ein Film von John Hillcoat mit Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie. Road“) das Skript mit einer erlesenen Besetzung um Chiwetel Ejiofor (oscarnominiert. Michael Atwood | Fans. Bekannt für. 12 Years a Slave. Fan werden. Anthony Mackie. Marcus Belmont | Fans. Bekannt für. Million Dollar Baby. Atwood gehört zu einer Gruppe von korrupten Bullen, die für die mächtige Russenmafia-Chefin Irina Vlaslov (KATE WINSLET) Banken ausrauben. Als Irina den. So setzt sich die Besetzung des Films gleich aus einer ganzen Reihe namenhafter Darsteller wie Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie.
Good points - the Movie.Tok is great, and the Die Zwangsvollstrecker and action are both perfect for what this movie needs. Chiwetel Ejiofor was the most disappointing as to me he really didn't fit in his role, he didn't Leonie Benesch me at all. Aug 12, Gimly M Super Reviewer. Cred ca este unul din cele mai slabe filme ale lui Woody si al altor actori,fiindca Charles Dickens Weihnachtsgeschichte Stream a fost una super buna,dar scenariul este foarte slab! Aaron Paul Gabe Welch. Wissenswertes. John Hillcoat. Alle Voraussetzungen für einen Rainer Strecker Triple 9 hat auf dem Papier zunächst einmal alles, was man für einen richtig guten Thriller braucht. Elena Vlaslov Fans. Da sich Irina erneut Arrow Staffel 5 Start In Deutschland der Bezahlung drücken will, zündet Michael einen Sprengsatz in ihrem Wagen, sodass Irina dabei getötet wird. Plot: Blackmailed by Russian mobsters, a gang of crooked cops, led by Terrell Tompkins Chiwetel Ejiofor , plan the murder of transfer officer Chris Allen Casey Affleck in order to buy themselves time to pull off an audacious heist.
Within moments of Hillcoat's crime yarn taking place there are instant reminders of Michael Mann's Heat and the precision in which its characters carry out their bank heist.
It's an explosive and very involving start to the film. Soon after, the opening credits display name after name of quality actors.
The ingredients are here and there's no doubt about that from the offset. That said, the critics have not been favourable to Triple 9 which had led to me putting it off for so long.
Sometimes when this is the case, though, it can lower your expectations of a film and you can approach it with an open mind.
I didn't expect much from this and I'm glad I didn't as it delivered many positives for me. For a start, the acting is, as expected, top drawer; Affleck, Harrelson and Ejiofor deliver solid work and it's good to see TV stars Aaron Paul and Norman Reedus breakthrough even if they're essentially rehashing their roles from Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, respectively.
Needless to say, it's a male dominated environment but that doesn't stop Kate Winslet from stealing every scene she appears in as a ballbreaking Russian mob boss.
For the most part, everything comes together wonderfully; Hillcoat's direction is kinetic and his action set-pieces are brilliantly handled with the aid of Dylan Tichenor's skillful editing and Nikolas Karakatsanis' sharp cinematography.
The action moments here rival the aforementioned Heat but what's missing is an attention to plot and characterisation: the very thing that Heat set a benchmark with.
Triple 9 simply lacks it and that's where I can find agreement with the film's critics. Character development is nonexistent and for a film that's close to 2 hours, it really shouldn't be as aloof as it is.
Some plot strands and character interactions don't make sense at all and it can often leave you wondering if some of the film has ended up in the cutting room floor as it wouldn't have been difficult to take a few extra minutes to explain the relationship of the characters in a little more depth.
It's a real shame that it's not quite the sum of its parts as the action is expertly handled and the cast, under Hillcoat's watchful eye, are outstanding.
In the end, though, it's Matt Cook's incoherent muddle of a screenplay that lets them down. There's an old saying that too many cooks can spoil a broth but in this case it took only one.
Despite the weak script, though, I still admired plenty about this gritty cops-and-robbers yarn and it certainly isn't the write-off that it's been burdened with.
When all is said and done, the poor writing didn't spoil my enjoyment or take too much away from the abundance of quality elsewhere.
Mark Walker. Mark W Super Reviewer. Sep 12, An okay movie with some very impressive visual flourishes, but a narrative mess, and not up to par with Director Joh Hillcoat's prior work.
Gimly M Super Reviewer. Aug 12, Good trailers can do wonders for a film at the box office. When a film has a good trailer and it does not live up to those expectations, or it has mislead you, that is probably more disappointing than a bad film in general.
Triple 9's trailer, for me, will go down in history as one of the most misleading of all time. With such an action-packed and brutal trailer, it made it seem like a film that was trying to mirror or borrow aspects from something like The Town, but that is surely not the case.
In one of the most boring attempts to create a compelling story, here are my thoughts on why I believe Triple 9 is below average, even without thinking about its terrible marketing.
In the first act, Triple 9 is presented as a film that follows a group of bank robbers. Some being crooked cops and some being criminals, the character dynamic seemed like one that was going to play out very well throughout the duration of this film.
Sadly, this film is really about a group of bad men, doing bad things, trying not to get caught, while they go about their lives.
While that can be interesting all in itself, the film jumps around far too quickly between characters to really begin to feel anything for them.
In a film like this, you need someone to latch onto in order to root for, otherwise it may just put you to sleep.
That is exactly the word I would use to describe this film, tiring. Confused with itself, there is absolutely nothing compelling about any of the events in Triple 9.
Beginning as a full-throttle bank robbery from the vault to the streets, the best part of the film is their very first job. To be honest, I was quite impressed by this opening sequence, but it very quickly ends, leaving viewers wanting more.
The thing that eventually becomes frustrating is the fact that it never once becomes exciting again. Any moments of excitement that followed, involved gruesome deaths or drawn-out and slowly paced chase scenes.
By the end of this film, I had no desire to root for anyone to stay alive. This is a film about terrible people doing terrible things, and nobody really has any moments of redemption.
It is actually pretty depressing when looking back on it. Warning: Spoilers in the next paragraph. While I didn't find myself particularly caring about any of these characters, I was at least hoping for a turning point, or for at least one character to be redeemed.
The third act of this film finds each character picking each other off until there are no bad guys left. So in the end, this film is about a group of bad guys, doing bad things, and then they all die.
This felt like a slap in the face to even the most loving fans of this picture. I found myself appalled, thinking that I wasted two hours on a film that I had actually been excited to see.
There is really nothing more to call this film, other than disappointing and misleading. The film already does a bad job in setting up compelling characters, but when almost every side character is deemed useless once the credits role, you almost feel robbed yourself, as an audience member.
If that was their intention, job well done, but I have a feeling that it was not. In the end, Triple 9 borrows from many other films in its genre, never expanding, nor making you care.
This is a thinly written film, directed sloppily, and jarringly edited from beginning to end. It benefits from a stellar cast, but even with that addition, it can't hold itself up.
I was genuinely excited to see this film, because I believed its trailer to be very promising. Triple 9 is one of the worst films of KJ P Super Reviewer.
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Go back. More trailers. The A Word. No Score Yet. The Goldbergs. 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.
It's as though the director was trying to combine, Heat with Colors but ended up with a film as good as neither. It begins well with lots of action.
Then slows to establish characters, and then desperately tries to speed up again but fails. It just kinda meanders to a stop rather than to an end.
The star studded line-up almost seemed to hold it back. It was as though all the A-listers demanded at least 15 minutes of screen time each, and the end result was lots of scenes which should have ended up on the editing room floor, but didn't.
A story and a cast with tonnes of potential, poorly executed. WestBridgeFilm 1 May There is something seriously amiss about the bad reviews of this film!
Okay, maybe I'm just 'completely crazy'. It's entirely possible. More so then any violence ever depicted in this movie.
In fact, there is a scene in the movie where one of the characters says something to the effect Well that's exactly how I feel critics and film snobs are reviewing this movie.
And my movie was ripped by critics and film snobs alike too. And that ripping was deserved! But think about it for a second So f' them all to begin with.
A bunch of hack nobodies that can't actually create anything themselves, with the exception of garnering some popularity for being "said critic".
Like seriously If they're so good at evaluating movies. Why don't they go out and smash grab a couple of ten million dollars or so and actually PRODUCE something besides a review of another's work?!
The first thing that caught my eye, was that the acting performances were stellar. I didn't know she had in it her for both so kudos to her!
And as long as we are talking "cinema snobs", I actually read a "critic review" that discussed how bad Winslet's 'Russian Accent" was in this film.
We are now going to rip an "Academy Award" winning actress for her accent in a "crime drama" movie that was meant for just pure entertainment of the genre and is not supposed to be fing Citizen Goddamn Kane or Gone with the fing Wind?
Well, yes we will apparently so exactly that. As if we can ALL do it better. Yeah, we've seen bits and pieces of this type of character from him in the past, but he's great in this!
And Clifton Collins Jr I almost didn't recognize him I hated him in this movie And what about the giant set of balls no pun intended when you see the film of actor "Michael Kenneth Williams" for his role of "Sweet Pea"!
Come on, now! The plot is a bit different than most heist films too. Great directing and writing. Oh, and btw, what big studio film put this out???
Is your answer. That either put their heart, blood, sweat, money.. And yet it's ripped by "Hollywood Critics" and "Film snobs" alike. My point is, if you like a really good, non academy award winning, non film snob, non big budget, non big studio, non Hollywood machine, non anything that is popular beside the cast type crime film It's just worth seeing period.
The red band trailer is amazing; When I first saw that trailer, I was game for an intense action thriller Training Day on crack , however, what I got was Positives: 1.
A through Z all across the board , all of the actors in this movie delivered convincing performances 2. The opening robbery scene is intense and engaging throughout 3.
You know why some of the characters are doing the things that they're doing. Nothing is really explained in full context during the movie; How did some of these characters get involved with the mob?
However, I did understand a majority of the characters motivations. When things happened, the characters reacted no matter how irrational , and I understood where they were coming from.
The main crew felt like a close family. We as an audience didn't get to spend a lot of time with most of the characters, but during certain scenes you could feel that they were all close to one other.
Some deaths linger on. A character may die, you really don't get to know them, but the characters won't let you forget who died. Information is continuously pounded into your brain throughout.
I had to remember names, events, and situations. All of the information may make some feel exhausted, but I found it exhilarating. There will be blood, death, and brutality.
This movie definitely depicts realistic violence. Negatives: 1. I didn't care who lived or who died; The characters don't let you forget, but if I can't build any sort of relationship with the character, than why would I care.
The movie does continuously pound information into your head which I did like , but it ultimately goes nowhere. By the end of the movie Unfortunately, this movie uses a "MacGuffin" device to further its already absurd plot.
The movie starts in a good place, it feeds us supposedly promising information, it goes down a promising path, and than at the end There's no pay off.
There's no satisfaction to be had here. By the end of it all, you finally realize that none of that previous crab really matters This is a by the numbers movie.
I wouldn't say that it's totally predicable, but there isn't anything here that you haven't already seen. I really was enjoying this movie from the start, through the middle a little , and than the ending happened.
Some moments are intense, others are dumb, some make no logical sense, and than the ending is just a complete throwaway.
This movie is no Training Day on crack I really had high hopes for this movie. Maybe My exceptions where to high. By the way, everything is spoiled for you if you watch the trailers.
Movies like this have it much worse than movie like Pirates of the Caribbean and all the Marvel movies due to their gritty and rough nature.
This movie is a hidden gem that is scratched but beautiful, hugely full of talent but will never be big due to it not being for everyone.
Its unfortunate but this movie really really is good, please give it a watch. Its a real like kind of cop film instead of good guy cop who makes no mistakes and is always doing whats right, its a film where there are grey lines instead of things only being just black and white.
There is right and wrong and whats legal, its not mindless entertainment like Fast and Furious don't get me wrong those films are fun this movie strikes at your heart in every way you would want to act if bad things happened to you.
Just the names alone can get me into a movie theatre, but they also hinder the movie in ways I'll soon discuss. I've seen one reviewer here compare the movie to Se7en, whereas I think its closer to movies like Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and Crash: both ensemble films that feature no concrete lead, and are bleak and very relentless in their bleakness.
The plot of this movie is that a group of criminals consisting of corrupt security personal and cops are blackmailed by a Russian mob leader's wife into committing a crime to get him released from prison.
In order to pull off said crime, the criminals decide to commit a - the titular Triple 9 - and kill a police officer on the other side of town while they commit the robbery.
The story then follows the officer in question, Chris Allen, the criminals led by Michael Belmont, and the detectives investigating the plot as led by Jeff Allen - Chris' uncle.
Good points - the cast is great, and the cinematography and action are both perfect for what this movie needs.
The film looks the right balance between well put together and dirty in its set-up and feel - you feel in the action, but the action is captivating that you feel like a joyful observer.
The action scenes are very well handled, and director John Hillcoat is great with all of choices of camera angles; we see all the important parts of the action scene, so the audience can enjoy the tension and pace of them.
But NOW to the big problems with this movie. Firstly, it is not a movie with a good narrative flow, especially after Kate Winslet's character becomes an active catalyst in the plot; one plot decision that makes little sense is that Irina Winslet decides to get Belmont Chwetel Ejoifor to partake in a tough job that requires a big crew by murdering a crew member of his.
When it's further revealed that she is the aunt of Belmont's son and has him already, that makes this senseless act even more illogical, as surely THAT is leverage enough?
Other narrative decisions, like the Mexican cartels that show up and then disappear without a valid reason - except for the Triple 9 that honestly could be done by anyone, hell, even one of the corrupt cops could've done it themselves - or the wasting of very potential set pieces, like the elevator at the end of the film, that could've been good.
And an ending scene that feels abrupt, cut off, and like it was not meant to end there, but just did. Speaking of the cast, specifically Winslet, I have to comment on her performance first.
She plays the leader of the Russian mob, and whilst she is certainly a talented actress, she is NOT the physical fit for this role, as she feels immensely unintimidating for a reason I can't quite place, but just feel.
It's certainly the weakest performance in the main cast, with Woody Harrelson as the best, playing the most likable, awesome character in the film who I just love - good old Jeff, who solves problems, protects those he cares about, and has a cynical, cool humour about him.
The criminals are well acted, but the problem is that none of them are particularly different to each other; all of them, essentially, are terrible people with a personal issue that they are deal with, but are just terrible people at the end of the day.
They are the kind of both who are hard to distinguish; you have two brothers, played by Aaron Paul and Norman Reedus, two black men with similar sounding names and appearance, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mike and Anthony Mackay as Mark, and Clifton Collins Jr.
They are the kind of characters that if played by B-name actors I wouldn't remember, which is not a good thing. I certainly didn't hate it, I just didn't like it like I wanted.
Triple 9 fails to deliver the story, very too often I felt that the acting was poor except for Woody Harrelson, maybe it's because he played True Detective and it reminds me of a great season one of the TV-Series.
That said, as the story goes on, you barely understand the links between the characters, neither their true motive.
Chiwetel Ejiofor was the most disappointing as to me he really didn't fit in his role, he didn't convince me at all. Kate Winslet was also not fit to be this ruthless Russian mob boss or wife as we don't understand for sure Many scenes are also totally random and makes you feel awkward.
There was good parts and good ideas but very not well exploited. My List of Heist Movies. Exhaust Inspiration. Share this Rating Title: Triple 9 6.
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Trivia In interviews promoting this movie, Norman Reedus said while filming parts of The Walking Dead season five, episode six, "Consumed", they had a bird's-eye view of the Triple 9 set.
Goofs At into the film, while the police sergeant is speaking to the detectives, Chris is looking at the floor to his left, but then in the next shot continuous with the sarge's dialog he is looking up at Marcus to his right.
Quotes [ first lines ] Michael Atwood : The more jobs we do with these guys Russell Welch : The more they squeeze us.
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In a mixed review, Empire 's Ian Freer gave Triple 9 three out of five stars. Freer praised the cast's performance, but criticized the film's screenplay and second half, surmising that "the interesting world of the film doesn't get the story it deserves.
Duralde writes: "…[ Triple 9 ] somehow managed to collect an impressively A-list cast on its way toward becoming a cop movie that's not just dumb, it's disastrous.
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February 13, Full Review…. View All Critic Reviews Jun 27, After his relentlessly grim debut The Proposition and it's equally grim follow-up, The Road, director John Hillcoat carved a reputation as a less than cheery filmmaker.
However, he was clearly one with an undeniable ability to capture a time and place. His third feature - Lawless - proved again that he had a great eye for detail - even though it was lacking a depth of narrative.
With Triple 9, Hillcoat, yet again, showcases his gritty realism but it suffers the same problems in terms of the story.
Plot: Blackmailed by Russian mobsters, a gang of crooked cops, led by Terrell Tompkins Chiwetel Ejiofor , plan the murder of transfer officer Chris Allen Casey Affleck in order to buy themselves time to pull off an audacious heist.
Within moments of Hillcoat's crime yarn taking place there are instant reminders of Michael Mann's Heat and the precision in which its characters carry out their bank heist.
It's an explosive and very involving start to the film. Soon after, the opening credits display name after name of quality actors.
The ingredients are here and there's no doubt about that from the offset. That said, the critics have not been favourable to Triple 9 which had led to me putting it off for so long.
Sometimes when this is the case, though, it can lower your expectations of a film and you can approach it with an open mind. I didn't expect much from this and I'm glad I didn't as it delivered many positives for me.
For a start, the acting is, as expected, top drawer; Affleck, Harrelson and Ejiofor deliver solid work and it's good to see TV stars Aaron Paul and Norman Reedus breakthrough even if they're essentially rehashing their roles from Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, respectively.
Needless to say, it's a male dominated environment but that doesn't stop Kate Winslet from stealing every scene she appears in as a ballbreaking Russian mob boss.
For the most part, everything comes together wonderfully; Hillcoat's direction is kinetic and his action set-pieces are brilliantly handled with the aid of Dylan Tichenor's skillful editing and Nikolas Karakatsanis' sharp cinematography.
The action moments here rival the aforementioned Heat but what's missing is an attention to plot and characterisation: the very thing that Heat set a benchmark with.
Triple 9 simply lacks it and that's where I can find agreement with the film's critics. Character development is nonexistent and for a film that's close to 2 hours, it really shouldn't be as aloof as it is.
Some plot strands and character interactions don't make sense at all and it can often leave you wondering if some of the film has ended up in the cutting room floor as it wouldn't have been difficult to take a few extra minutes to explain the relationship of the characters in a little more depth.
It's a real shame that it's not quite the sum of its parts as the action is expertly handled and the cast, under Hillcoat's watchful eye, are outstanding.
In the end, though, it's Matt Cook's incoherent muddle of a screenplay that lets them down. There's an old saying that too many cooks can spoil a broth but in this case it took only one.
Despite the weak script, though, I still admired plenty about this gritty cops-and-robbers yarn and it certainly isn't the write-off that it's been burdened with.
When all is said and done, the poor writing didn't spoil my enjoyment or take too much away from the abundance of quality elsewhere. Mark Walker.
Mark W Super Reviewer. Sep 12, An okay movie with some very impressive visual flourishes, but a narrative mess, and not up to par with Director Joh Hillcoat's prior work.
Gimly M Super Reviewer. Aug 12, Good trailers can do wonders for a film at the box office. When a film has a good trailer and it does not live up to those expectations, or it has mislead you, that is probably more disappointing than a bad film in general.
Triple 9's trailer, for me, will go down in history as one of the most misleading of all time. With such an action-packed and brutal trailer, it made it seem like a film that was trying to mirror or borrow aspects from something like The Town, but that is surely not the case.
In one of the most boring attempts to create a compelling story, here are my thoughts on why I believe Triple 9 is below average, even without thinking about its terrible marketing.
In the first act, Triple 9 is presented as a film that follows a group of bank robbers. Some being crooked cops and some being criminals, the character dynamic seemed like one that was going to play out very well throughout the duration of this film.
Sadly, this film is really about a group of bad men, doing bad things, trying not to get caught, while they go about their lives.
While that can be interesting all in itself, the film jumps around far too quickly between characters to really begin to feel anything for them.
In a film like this, you need someone to latch onto in order to root for, otherwise it may just put you to sleep. That is exactly the word I would use to describe this film, tiring.
Confused with itself, there is absolutely nothing compelling about any of the events in Triple 9. Beginning as a full-throttle bank robbery from the vault to the streets, the best part of the film is their very first job.
To be honest, I was quite impressed by this opening sequence, but it very quickly ends, leaving viewers wanting more. The thing that eventually becomes frustrating is the fact that it never once becomes exciting again.
Any moments of excitement that followed, involved gruesome deaths or drawn-out and slowly paced chase scenes.
By the end of this film, I had no desire to root for anyone to stay alive. This is a film about terrible people doing terrible things, and nobody really has any moments of redemption.
It is actually pretty depressing when looking back on it. Warning: Spoilers in the next paragraph. While I didn't find myself particularly caring about any of these characters, I was at least hoping for a turning point, or for at least one character to be redeemed.
The third act of this film finds each character picking each other off until there are no bad guys left. So in the end, this film is about a group of bad guys, doing bad things, and then they all die.
This felt like a slap in the face to even the most loving fans of this picture. I found myself appalled, thinking that I wasted two hours on a film that I had actually been excited to see.
There is really nothing more to call this film, other than disappointing and misleading. The film already does a bad job in setting up compelling characters, but when almost every side character is deemed useless once the credits role, you almost feel robbed yourself, as an audience member.
If that was their intention, job well done, but I have a feeling that it was not. In the end, Triple 9 borrows from many other films in its genre, never expanding, nor making you care.
This is a thinly written film, directed sloppily, and jarringly edited from beginning to end. It benefits from a stellar cast, but even with that addition, it can't hold itself up.
I was genuinely excited to see this film, because I believed its trailer to be very promising. Triple 9 is one of the worst films of Maybe My exceptions where to high.
By the way, everything is spoiled for you if you watch the trailers. Movies like this have it much worse than movie like Pirates of the Caribbean and all the Marvel movies due to their gritty and rough nature.
This movie is a hidden gem that is scratched but beautiful, hugely full of talent but will never be big due to it not being for everyone.
Its unfortunate but this movie really really is good, please give it a watch. Its a real like kind of cop film instead of good guy cop who makes no mistakes and is always doing whats right, its a film where there are grey lines instead of things only being just black and white.
There is right and wrong and whats legal, its not mindless entertainment like Fast and Furious don't get me wrong those films are fun this movie strikes at your heart in every way you would want to act if bad things happened to you.
Just the names alone can get me into a movie theatre, but they also hinder the movie in ways I'll soon discuss. I've seen one reviewer here compare the movie to Se7en, whereas I think its closer to movies like Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and Crash: both ensemble films that feature no concrete lead, and are bleak and very relentless in their bleakness.
The plot of this movie is that a group of criminals consisting of corrupt security personal and cops are blackmailed by a Russian mob leader's wife into committing a crime to get him released from prison.
In order to pull off said crime, the criminals decide to commit a - the titular Triple 9 - and kill a police officer on the other side of town while they commit the robbery.
The story then follows the officer in question, Chris Allen, the criminals led by Michael Belmont, and the detectives investigating the plot as led by Jeff Allen - Chris' uncle.
Good points - the cast is great, and the cinematography and action are both perfect for what this movie needs.
The film looks the right balance between well put together and dirty in its set-up and feel - you feel in the action, but the action is captivating that you feel like a joyful observer.
The action scenes are very well handled, and director John Hillcoat is great with all of choices of camera angles; we see all the important parts of the action scene, so the audience can enjoy the tension and pace of them.
But NOW to the big problems with this movie. Firstly, it is not a movie with a good narrative flow, especially after Kate Winslet's character becomes an active catalyst in the plot; one plot decision that makes little sense is that Irina Winslet decides to get Belmont Chwetel Ejoifor to partake in a tough job that requires a big crew by murdering a crew member of his.
When it's further revealed that she is the aunt of Belmont's son and has him already, that makes this senseless act even more illogical, as surely THAT is leverage enough?
Other narrative decisions, like the Mexican cartels that show up and then disappear without a valid reason - except for the Triple 9 that honestly could be done by anyone, hell, even one of the corrupt cops could've done it themselves - or the wasting of very potential set pieces, like the elevator at the end of the film, that could've been good.
And an ending scene that feels abrupt, cut off, and like it was not meant to end there, but just did. Speaking of the cast, specifically Winslet, I have to comment on her performance first.
She plays the leader of the Russian mob, and whilst she is certainly a talented actress, she is NOT the physical fit for this role, as she feels immensely unintimidating for a reason I can't quite place, but just feel.
It's certainly the weakest performance in the main cast, with Woody Harrelson as the best, playing the most likable, awesome character in the film who I just love - good old Jeff, who solves problems, protects those he cares about, and has a cynical, cool humour about him.
The criminals are well acted, but the problem is that none of them are particularly different to each other; all of them, essentially, are terrible people with a personal issue that they are deal with, but are just terrible people at the end of the day.
They are the kind of both who are hard to distinguish; you have two brothers, played by Aaron Paul and Norman Reedus, two black men with similar sounding names and appearance, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mike and Anthony Mackay as Mark, and Clifton Collins Jr.
They are the kind of characters that if played by B-name actors I wouldn't remember, which is not a good thing. I certainly didn't hate it, I just didn't like it like I wanted.
Triple 9 fails to deliver the story, very too often I felt that the acting was poor except for Woody Harrelson, maybe it's because he played True Detective and it reminds me of a great season one of the TV-Series.
That said, as the story goes on, you barely understand the links between the characters, neither their true motive. Chiwetel Ejiofor was the most disappointing as to me he really didn't fit in his role, he didn't convince me at all.
Kate Winslet was also not fit to be this ruthless Russian mob boss or wife as we don't understand for sure Many scenes are also totally random and makes you feel awkward.
There was good parts and good ideas but very not well exploited. Too bad! I had to look up the writer. Turns out this is his first movie credit.
I hope it is his last. Russian Mafia using a Kosher food plant in Atlanta as a front. Orthodox Jewish men really!
The Russians are working with Homeland Security and using a crew of corrupt cops who are willing to kill one of their own for a payoff as errand boys.
Now: the plan, when the corrupt cops steal the MacGuffin and give it to the Russians, the Russians will give it to Homeland Security who've arranged to get the Russian crime boss released.
Ultra violence ensues. Murky plot! Murky cinematography! Murky sound! Murky direction! Lots of name actors in a hot mess! Tense action; deep trauma; pure drama and close beautiful relationships between complicated characters make this action thriller a fantastic ride.
Editing and timing brilliance are apparent throughout Now this is a fantastic cop action movie! Triple 9, set in the gun-ridden streets of Atlanta, is surprisingly well executed and at times impressive to look at.
But it does leave a rather unpleasant after-taste: like last year's Liam Neeson vehicle "Run All Night", virtually no one in the film has a redeeming feature which makes it difficult to empathise or root for anyone.
The gang stay one step ahead of the local cops by plotting patrol car movements on a GIS map: that's pretty easy for them since they are all crooked cops and ex-military.
Atwood's character is intimately linked to Vlaslov's, as he has a son with her sister Elena Gal Gadot. But the mafia is not easy to please and Atwood is strong-armed into doing a second, more challenging job that requires a significant police diversion.
This diversion is the root of the "" of the title: the call sign for "officer down". Investigating the robbery and the subsequent chain of events is flawed cop Jeffrey Allen Woody Harrelson , who is also trying to help his nephew Chris Casey Affleck aclimitise to the city's gang culture following a transfer from a much cushier neighbourhood.
The strands of the story intertwine to violent and bloody ends as Atwood fights to protect his family and escape the ever-tightening grip of the mafia and the closing net of Harrelson's dogged detective.
All the performances here a generally excellent. Ejiofor is an actor who perfects the look of being totally hacked off, and here he has plenty of opportunities to exercise that.
His closest colleague Belmont Anthony Mackie, Falcon from the "Avengers" films is also extremely watchable. Elsewhere, the shapely Miss Gadot is a little too one-dimensionally drawn for my taste, but the other members of the gang and Harrelson and Affleck as the two 'good guy' cops are nicely portrayed.
The most surprising turn though is that of Winslet who revels in her evil Russian bitch persona, a role diverging from her usual norm and which is great to watch.
The story and screenplay by newcomer Matt Cook is sufficiently dense to require attention in following it — it reminded me in places of "LA Confidential" — and like that film contains enough twists and turns to keep up the interest.
Character development though is limited, so when the twists do happen its an "oh" rather than an "OH! The screenplay is let down by a bit of a damp squib of an ending and one that doesn't bear close scrutiny — if you've seen the film, the hero is SURELY in more imminent peril in the two minutes preceding the denouement??
But the journey to get to the ending is satisfying enough. Cinematography Nicolas Karakatsanis, "The Drop" and film editing Dylan Tichenor, "There Will be Blood" are also worthy of note, particularly with the impressive opening titles which straight away tell you this is not just A.
The robbery scenes and one involving a police raid on an apartment building are both well edited and exciting.
So, in summary, a good solid job by director John Hillcoat "The Road" that is worthy of your rental dollar.
Please visit bob-the-movie-man. Snorreplop 16 May A band of robbers needs a distraction to pull off their next heist.
They plan to kill a cop Atlanta PD code is the officer down radio sign, hence the title to create a large enough time-frame to get things done.
This film has a some pros; the cast is good, the Atlanta back-drop is nice and the overall technical look and feel is decent.
However the cons take a heavy toll on this flick; character development is not available, plot quality and logic are far below average.
This makes an incoherent mess, in the end it just is not good enough to recommend to anyone. A disappointing and confusing mess Gordon 10 June This film tells the story of a few corrupt policemen in Atlanta, who have to plan a heist to rob the Department of Homeland Security for the wife of a Russian mafia boss.
The fact that it contains so many famous actors and actresses make it a must watch for me. However, it is also the reason why I find the story very confusing because it contains so many characters.
None of the characters are developed well, and they are not even introduced properly. In fact most of the time I don't know who is who, or who is the bad guy and who is the good guy.
There are too many things that have to be deciphered by the viewers. Clues appear so momentarily, and frankly it is not enough for me to piece together what really happened.
I am disappointed to find it a confusing mess. PyroSikTh 23 February It didn't take much convincing to get me into the cinema for this one.
I've been looking forward to it for a while, not for it's content and concept, but purely for the names attached.
John Hillcoat has yet to make a bad movie, and I figured him finally tackling present day could yield some interesting results.
Pairing him with his biggest and most impressive cast yet could only bring further promise. Unsurprisingly, Triple 9 is driven by it's characters, with a handful of impressive, gritty action setpieces to keep the audience's attention.
We follow characters on both sides of the law, including the murky grey in the middle, but no-one is particularly likable.
We have Mike, head of the criminal crew plotting an officer down code as a distraction. He's in with the Jewish?
His crew is made up of army buddy Russel, his deadbeat brother Gabe, Gabe's Gang Unit cop friend Marcus, and another dirty, somewhat psychotic cop Franco.
Marcus has just been assigned a newbie as a partner; Chris, who just so happens to be the nephew of Jeff; the head of the Homicide division. Of course with such ties, it's the newbie who ends up as the target of the triple nine.
Each one gets varying degrees of character development, but due to their being so many characters, it's unsurprising that there might not be as much as you might hope.
Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Mike as a sharp leader who's just unhappy with his situation and what he's made to do for the sake of his own son.
Kate Winslet hams it up a little bit as Irina, but never quite reaches the amount of intimidation required for the role, and you wonder why Mike doesn't just shoot her in the face and be done with it.
Casey Affleck is a little dull as Chris, who's probably the most likable character by accident, having no discernible character beyond being the guy thrown into a world he doesn't entirely understand.
As the guy tasked with initiating the triple nine, he suffers a strike of conscience at inconvenient times, but is still ultimately a corrupt cop.
Aaron Paul does what he does best with Gabe, which is walk around lost with tears welling up the whole time, although in Triple 9, at least his character has good reason.
Clifton Collins Jr. Woody Harrelson's Jeff is the well- meaning drunkard, who is as close to a show-stealer as Triple 9 gets.
Williams all make small and underdeveloped appearances throughout, as Russel the only guy on the crew who seems to have his head screwed on , Elena who exudes bad mother , and Sweet Pea transvestite pimp who has her ear to the ground respectively.
In truth, the impressive cast was necessary just to be able to keep track of who was who at times.
There isn't enough time to get particularly attached to any of them as the plotting keeps the movie moving quite thoroughly, although I must note there were some questionable holes such as, you have the guys son, why not use him rather than offing one of his crew members and making it infinitely harder for him to get the job you want done.
Dotted about are some smatterings of action, and to be honest, this is where the film's strength lies. The movie opens with the bank job that doesn't quite go to plan as Gabe gets a bit greedy, resulting in them all covered in red dust.
Of course there's the second half of the job which makes up the movie's climax in the third act as well, but in the middle we switch perspectives a bit and follow a police raid in the heart of Mexican gang territory, and absolutely marks the movie's high point.
Story wise, holes aside, there's quite a lot going on and quite a lot to keep track of. Everyone seems to be interrelated somehow, and it can take a bit of work on the audience's part to connect all the dots together.
Most of the plot is focused around the characters themselves, as I've mentioned, but it cleverly uses this to guide the outcome of the movie.
It feels like the writer came up with the idea, came up with the characters, and then threw them together and followed them individually along the timeline to figure out how they'd end up at the end, and what their role would be.
This results in some fairly unpredictable twists and turns that make complete sense from the perspective of the characters. In all Triple 9 is a solidly enjoyable movie.
