Review of Triple 9 (2016) by Darryl M — 27 Feb 2016
About what I expected. Michael Atwood (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a criminal that is working for the Russian Jewish mob. Ran by Irina Vlaslov (Kate Winslet) the mob is using Michael because of his ties to Irina's sister Elena (Gal Gadot) which Michael has a son with.
Michael is stealing valuable information from banks and government locations in order to free Irina's husband who is held prisoner in Europe. This is literally just one of the many subplots of this film, but mostly the main point.
Michael works with his best friend Russell Welch (Norman Reedus) and his ex-cop brother Gabe (Aaron Paul). The bring in two dirty cops to help them with a heist which includes Marcus Belmont (Anthony Mackie) a street detective and Franco Rodriguez (Clifton Collins Jr) a homicide detective.
Things get complicated when Marcus gets a new partner in Chris Allen (Casey Affleck) who's a straight laced to good cop. On top of all that Chris's uncle (who's a higher level detective) Jeffrey (Woody Harrelson) is on the trail of the crew getting closer to the source of it all.
The crew has one last heist that they need to pull off and decide to do a Triple 9 which means that a cop has been killed and all forces rush to that area leaving the other areas of the city aka the heist to have more time to be successful.
They decide to kill Chris, but Marcus starts to have some doubts. The movie is predictable. I know it seems like I stated a lot of what the movie is, but this is just the tip of it all there's a lot of twists to it that are easily seen.
The movie actually slows down quite a bit in the middle. The characters go back and forth on the same kind of subjects and it seems like it could have been edited down. One major problem for me is the fact that there isn't a strong main character.
Yes we follow Chris, but we don't know much about him. I never felt for any of the characters and didn't care when people started dying off. Overall, not a recommendation to see in theaters, but I would say wait to rent this one.
This review of Triple 9 (2016) was written by Darryl M on 27 Feb 2016.
Triple 9 has generally received mixed reviews.
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