Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

A group Army Special Forces Veterans pull themselves out of retirement to help a buddy take down a Columbian drug lord and get paid in the process.

Unfortunately, when it comes to crime, money, and human beings – you can’t prepare for the outcome, no matter how good your exit strategy is.

I’ve had it up to here (about chin level) with trailers deceiving me on the genre of a movie, especially Netflix. I pressed play thinking this was a straight Action movie only to be met with a Drama/Thriller – which is all well and good but not exactly what I put my name down for.

Rant over, let’s talk about the movie, and why three days later as I write this review, I realise it was actually pretty damn good.

I love yelling at a movie, and for Triple Frontier, there was a lot of yelling and pausing for discussion. The movie brought forward a multitude of both moral and ethical dilemmas as well as drawing you to put yourself in the characters shoes, and think about what you would do. And who doesn’t like to think they would and could do better?!

Don’t get me wrong for even though I now realise it was a solid film and whatever else I said about it above, this film is in no way getting a Five Star rating out of me. For me it felt like after a slow and boring build up to the main event, things then escalated too quickly, both in situations as well as character development.

On the note of character; I didn’t think there was anything special about any of them. I wasn’t rooting for one person to get home to their family, worried that another would die or even so much as keeping my fingers crossed that their hopes and dreams would come true. Now I think about it I didn’t even know the names of the characters and just referred to them by personal traits or by the actors’ names.

Because it didn’t come up organically above, here is a list of the cast; Ben Affleck,  Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal. Yep. A pretty A/B list cast for a movie that could have been more, but worked out at just under average.

An okay movie that sparked discussion a lot more interesting than the movie itself as a whole.