Wide release 2/26/16
Viewed Tuesday, 3/1/16 at ElCon with Sheila
RT Critic: 54 Audience: 50
Critic's Consensus:
Critic's Consensus:
Cag: 4 - this was a good movie, had to pay close attention to "get" it all (I hate that I love dark, gritty, full-of-murder books and movies)
Directed by John Hillcoat
Open Road Films
Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet, Chiwetei Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie
My comments: Very entertaining, once you got past two things. One: very, VERY violent. Two: shows the "underbelly" of cities in the US in a really shocking way. Even though I was aware of gloom, gangs,guns, drugs, darkness, crazy people this really, REALLY showed it - too well. It was really unsettling. The story was intricate and interesting. You had to pay attention. It wasn't until the drive home afterward that something said at the very beginning of the film was remembered and made sense (the three in the car were talking about their upcoming heist, and the guy in the back seat said he didn't worry about Marcus, but wasn't sure about the "other guy." I'm glad I remembered that later! (It always amazes me how Woody Harrelson totally takes on a role - he definitely becomes the perosn he's portraying. He was great!)
RT Summary: In TRIPLE NINE, a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist and the only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down." Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, triggering a breakneck action-packed finale tangled with double-crosses, greed and revenge.
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