As Ironhead, Charlie Hunnam is stuck doing PR for the military. The other actors are left with barely one note to play. Redfly is reluctant to sign on for the heist until he’s reminded that the army has set him adrift after 17 years of service (“They take your best years, then spit you out”). Affleck - looking winded either by circumstances or the knowledge that they movie is never going to the next level - gives off an air of tired resignation that works for the role. Back in the states, he lines up his team, beginning with Redfly ( Ben Affleck), a divorced dad reduced to selling condos. Pope sees this info as an opportunity to strike. With the help of a Yovana (Adria Arjona), the sexy informant he’s sleeping with (a cliché that should have been resisted and wasn’t), learns that the cartel kingpin Loria (Reynaldo Gallegos) is holed up in the jungle in a house that is literally his safe (he’s stashed millions in its walls).Ģ5 Movies We Can't Wait to See at SXSW 2019 Oscar Isaac takes the pivotal role of Pope, a special-forces operative based near the triple frontier between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. But Chandor, who made some audience-friendly tweeks to Boal’s script, hasn’t lost his knack for hot-wired suspense. Chandor ( All Is Lost, Margin Call, A Most Violent Year). You’d expect more given the potent track record of director J.C. Triple Frontier is the kind of adrenaline-fueled B-movie that goes down well with beer and pizza and a Netflix subscription ( Roma it is not). Not that there’s anything (too) wrong with that. Somewhere along the road of development hell, the movie settled for delivering standard-issue jolts for jocks. Boal who worked with director Kathryn Bigelow on Oscar-touched Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, once intended to collaborate with Bigelow again on Triple Frontier, a concept that once caught the interest of such A-listers as Tom Hanks, Johnny Depp, Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Mark Wahlberg, Channing Tatum and Mahershala Ali. The script is so soft-bellied I blinked with I saw Mark Boal listed as a screenwriter. Our inglorious bastards, on the other hand, are patriots with big hearts momentarily sidetracked by greed. That means the bad guys are really bad and nobody cares how violently they die. Triple Frontier - which Netflix will release in theaters for five minutes (OK, for seven days) before streaming to its nearly 140 million subscribers on March 13th - involves a handful of rogue ex-military types who decide to rob a drug cartel. With this guys-on-a-mission-blowout, Netflix proves it can grind out generic action as well as the next Hollywood formula hacks.
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