Triple 9 Film Review

Finished watching Triple 9 directed by John Hillcoat and staring Anthony Mackie, Clifton Collins Jr., Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson and Casey Affleck. The film opens up with a bank heist as a group consisting of corrupt cops Marcus Atwood (Anthony Mackie) and Jorge Rodriguez (Clifton Collins Jr.) and criminals Gabe Welch (Aaron Paul), Russel Welch (Norman Reedus) lead by Michael Belmont (Chiwetel Ejiofor) the father of the Russian Mafia's leader Irina Vlaslov's (Kate Winslet) nephew. After successfully completing the bank heist Marcus and Jorge head to work at the police precinct were their boss Sargent Detective Jeffrey Allen (Woody Harrelson) is angry for losing the criminals while Marcus gets a new partner in the form of Chris Allen (Casey Affleck) as the two head of to investigate a local gang crime. While back at the Russian Mafia's base of operations Michael gives Irina the stolen goods as he goes to see his son. Later Irina gives Michael one more job by blackmailing him with the use of his son to pull of a near impossible job that the group come to the conclusion that the only way to pull it of is to have a triple nine happen just before the heist meaning a cop would have to be severely injured in order to distract the whole police force. Overall this was a good, solid film thanks to its good action and great plot twists throughout. The action is executed very well throughout the heist scenes and the police pursuit scenes as they constantly build tension throughout due to most of them being very unpredictable in places. The character interactions are incredibly interesting from the friendship Marcus and Chris over the course of the film which starts to influence Marcus' choices and actions to the interactions between Irina and Michael in the way that Irina blackmails him leading to some emotional moments. 7/10.