Storyline
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.
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Cast
Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet, Luis Da Silva Jr., Woody Harrelson, Anthony Mackie, Michael Kenneth Williams, Clifton Collins Jr., Teresa Palmer, Gal Gadot, E. Roger Mitchell, Norman Reedus, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michelle Ang, Aaron Paul, Michael Harding, Ian Casselberry, Terence Rosemore, Natalie Pero, Carlos Aviles, Andre Pushkin, Terri Abney, Alexander Babara, Anthony Belevtsov, Blake McLennan, Labrandon Shead, Armando Alonzo, Karen Kaia Livers, Igor Komar, Michelle Rivera, Ethan Rosero
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Reviews
80
The shifting loyalties and treacherous power plays that go on in Triple 9 are engaging, but Hillcoat especially shines in a series of three taut life-or-death sequences — one at the start of the film, one near the middle, and one at the end — that articulate more about who these characters are than anything they say.
80
This is the anti-Heat: no sheen, no shimmer, no obsessing over highly grandiose themes and precise compositions; just grime and desperation.
80
There may be little here we haven’t seen before – glassy reflections of Michael Mann’s Heat pop up everywhere you look – but it’s all carried off with brashness and momentum by a director who genuinely seems to be having a blast.
70
Well suited to Hillcoat’s gifts for low-boil suspense and brutal eruptions of violence in close, male-dominated quarters, the film has grit and atmosphere to burn but also a certain narrative sketchiness, as though unable to reconcile its sharp sociological portraiture with the pleasures of a more robustly plotted crime yarn.
60
The interesting world of the film doesn’t get the story it deserves.
