TRIPLE 9
John Hillcoat's The Proposition and The Road both presented bleak visions of a brutal, chaotic world, and his latest, the criminally underrated Triple 9, proves no different. Led by a phenomenal ensemble that includes Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Aaron Paul, Clifton Collins Jr., Norman Reedus, Woody Harrelson, Gal Gadot, Michael K. Williams, and Kate Winslet as a ruthless, giant-haired Russian Mafioso bigwig (a transfixing over-the-top performance of heavily accented villainy), Hillcoat's film involves a consortium of corrupt cops and professional crooks who are threatened by Winslet's boss into robbing a government building. To do so, they use a "triple 9" police code (to indicate an officer is down) to distract law enforcement agents, although as is usually the case in such genre films, things don't go as planned. With the police hot on their trail, the felons soon find themselves with limited options for survival, and while that basic scenario routinely feels familiar, Hillcoat electrifies his action by drenching it in a gritty, grimy coat of inescapable—and haunting—apocalyptic despair.
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