ChuckFlixs: Triple Frontier By Chuck VanHoose March 14, 2019It has been has been almost two weeks since the last ChuckFlixs was posted. I was out of town last weekend. Since I’m in the process of moving I have no WiFi at the current house. So it’s a bit harder to watch Netflix. I will be out of town this weekend as well.

The movie I’ll be reviewing today is the just released today Triple Frontier. Triple Frontier was 4th on my most anticipated Netflix originals of the year. The movie is about former special force operatives reuniting to plan a heist. They plan to rob a drug lord that lives in South America. Friendship is tested when the heist doesn’t go as planned.

Overall I enjoyed this movie and had a good time watching it. I have seen heist movies worst than this and I have seen heist movies better than this. But I had much higher expectations so I was a little disappointed.

There are some parts that are going to be hard to talk about with spoilers but I’m going to do my best.

Positives
For the most part I liked the performances. There are some heavy hitters in this movie. It’s hard to nail down my favorite because they were all about the same for me. I enjoyed the cinematography in the film. Ben Affleck gave good performance. At the start of the movie I thought this is what Bruce Wayne would look like if he went broke. This film makes each man question their morals. I found myself thinking what would I do in that situation.
Oscar Isaac gave a good performance. I understand his drive in the film and his motives.
The other guys in this film which are Pedro Pascal, Charlie Hunnam, and Garret Hedlund where good in the film.

Middle of the road
Some of the character development worked for me and some of it didn’t. There are some decisions made that seem to come out of no where. Although they seemed to come out of no where I can see what they were trying to go for.
I knew that they would get into the planning of the heist fast. However there’s one character who changes his mind quickly on doing the heist.

There are also some characters that I don’t care about. That’s not to say their performances were bad. It’s just saying that I wasn’t given enough to care about them. Adria Arjona was one of the characters I didn’t care about. She will just there to be a plot device.

The ending was also predictable. I could see what was going to happen at the beginning of the move. I was right in my prediction in every way but one. The one aspect I was wrong about made the movie a little better for me.

Negatives
There a few moments in the film where a character goes against character traits that they have had in the past. They just want you to take their word for it and make it a big deal. Another thing I didn’t like is that it said all of these men had history together. But it didn’t show any of that. I think I would have cared more if they had shown me that.

Rating: 7.5/10

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