Triple 9 (2016)

How sad is this?

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A group of corrupt police officers in Atlanta are on the hook to steal for the Russian mob, with each of them engaging with their own ever shifting lines of morality. One cop's son is used as a pawn by the son's mother, who is the sister of the Russian mob boss trying to get her husband out of a Russian prison. Follow that so far? Yep, it's pretty convoluted. As far as the casting, Aaron Paul as a useless junkie wasn't a good move. It is hard to feel sympathetic for his character, and you find yourself just wanting him out of the way as the movie progresses. Refreshing was a barely recognizable Kate Winslet as the Russian mob matriarch, and Casey Affleck not playing his usual morose type of character. Also, Woody Harrelson does a great job as Casey Affleck's uncle, an alcoholic detective on his last legs, but still with keen police instincts and the desire to protect his nephew's life and career as a young officer.

The movie keeps you on your toes and has a ton of action, bad guys, good guys and everything in between. Casey Afleck plays his outsider cop character very well as is becoming customary as he climbs up the chart of best young actors.Honestly the story isn't anything inspirational or transforming and it's a bit violent and gory but if you're a fan of Afleck then it'll deliver.

It seems I didn't hate this movie as much as some of the other reviewers, but it's definitely a far cry from where it should have been. The acting is still great, but with such an amazing ensemble of actors, you naturally come to expect so much more. It's not the worst movie ever made, just a let down with all the potential it had.

We the people have collectively manholes covers sitting on/over their heads; they (the mob) have willfully lost the capacity for creative thinking in the arts and other sciences, and so judgments' in regards to quality of so-called bottom feeding consumer entertainments are paralleling, that non-thinking, as a priority. For the born again yahoo flat landers who've been so oppressed in the counter culture of backwardness, which they also presume to love and take pleasure in, have shrunken to such smallness as to accept and delight in any mere excessive fusion of violence through canned manipulations of sight and sound. Rather than carry a seamless conception of true creative beauty through tapping into some instances, which replicate possible potential of the mind, even in such a low/lesser medium, as the currently almost total absurdity of so-called films, which by degree could be all elevated should a greater people come forward and thus demand that in the culture of their society. These so-called films are a very expensive overhead and total drain (mental, moral, and financial) on entire real physical economy, and such corrupting non-industry demands that its minions remain absolute controlled doltish fools who crave, and feed, it's less than uselessness perpetually. Rather than support those monsters feed your mind/soul, and certainly never wait upon such ignorance, or worse, by paying for it!