Movie Reviews - Triple Frontier

Director: J.C. Chandor
Genre: Action/ Adventure/ Crime
Runtime: 125 minutes
Year: 2019
Starring: Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund

Description: 5 ex special forces soldiers plan to rob a cocaine cartel boss of all his cash $$$ at his house in the Amazon jungle area of the triple borders - Peru, Brazil and Colombia. Problems arise after the plan's initiated.

Review: Tom, also known as Redfly, has a hard time settling down in the suburban life as a veteran. He fails at being a father and as a realtor. His veteran friends aren’t doing better. Ben is an MMA fighter, his brother William ‘Ironhead’ speeches about PTTS and Francisco ‘Catfish’ lost his license to fly after a cocaine fiasco. Time for a last mission. Former colleague Santiage ‘Pope’ Garcia brings all of them together to travel to the Amazone and investigate the mansion of drug lord Lorea. They find millions of dollars in the walls of the house and decided to keep it all themselves. After all they’ve sacrificed, they have the right to keep. At least that’s what they say. But how do you get that much money through the jungle? And from that moment on, the action turns into a survival film.
“Triple Frontier” has been drifting through Hollywood for years and many names have been attached to the project. Eventually it was Netflix that showed the cash.
As an action film, “Triple Frontier” is pretty successful. The tone is somewhere between realism and heroic. The team is charismatic, but the characters are a bit cliché: the brain, the leader, the trusted sidekick, the jokes and the dumbass.
Tom tells the men that this time, they are no better than murderers or robbers. Greed eventually gets the better of them.
The film has a great cast and the story is strong, but it could have been more. There could have been conflict between the men, struggling with the morals. It’s not a bad movie, definitely not. But it’s good and it could have been great.

Rating: 3/ 5