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"...With three films the last decade — The Proposition, The Road, and Lawless — director John Hillcoat has crafted a certain kind of adult-geared, perhaps bleak dramas that are rare in today’s marketplace. With his latest, Triple 9, he takes on the heist genre along with a star-studded cast. Once set for a fall release, it’ll now debut early next year and the first red band trailer has landed.
Starring Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslet, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Gal Gadot, Teresa Palmer and Clifton Collins, Jr., the Matt Cook-scripted story follows a group of crooked cops planning a major heist. Judging from this first red band trailer, it looks like the kind of dark Michael Mann-esque drama that we’re looking forward to. Check it out below along with the synopsis.
...In TRIPLE NINE, a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist and the only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for “officer down.” Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, triggering a breakneck action-packed finale tangled with double-crosses, greed and revenge."
"...The first trailer for John Hillcoat's dirty-cop thriller Triple 9 is here, and it's filled with shocking violence, artfully terrifying imagery, and a cast that includes [takes deep breath] Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Norman Reedus, Aaron Paul, Gal Gadot, Teresa Palmer, and Clifton Collins Jr. And just to keep thing from getting too highbrow, there's even a creepy children's choir doing "This Little Piggy," because this is still an action-movie trailer released in 2015."
"With its lurid red and brooding villains, the thriller “Triple 9” comes dressed to kill. Directed by John Hillcoat, it purrs to a start with men plotting in near dark, a hook-y start that establishes the look and mood. Within minutes, the men are robbing an Atlanta bank in a scene filled with gunfire and rattling, visceral specifics, like the wet stains spreading under the weeping, prostrate employees. The men’s camaraderie and choreography announce their professionalism while the guns and money telegraph the stakes. And all of this is gone with the wind the moment Kate Winslet swaggers in, wearing a doo-wop bouffant and flashing a blingy Star of David as big as a bagel...."
...Other than Irina, the only characters with anything to do are men; they’re decent or corrupt cops (sometimes both), others are former Special Forces. (It’s a drag that the faces of the darker-skinned actors sometimes melt into the shadows that Mr. Hillcoat likes so much.) They’re backed by a phalanx of supporting players who provide some atmosphere by throwing gang signs, glowering at the police and running and gunning in a battlefield that could as easily be Los Angeles or Mexico City. An image of a child and a violent video game suggests that the filmmakers (the script is by Matt Cook) mean to draw lines between onscreen and offscreen violence, but that moment quickly passes, leaving no trace..."
Post by Sexual Chocolate on Feb 26, 2016 16:18:19 GMT -5
Have they been promoting this during TWD? I haven't seen one commercial for this but maybe 1) I'm not watching the "right" channels or 2)I don't watch enough commercials.
MorganBGone: Ah no. I always suck at the scavenger hunt.
Sept 22, 2017 16:17:54 GMT -5
Ripley: Winner of Scavenger Hunt gets to pick their choice of a nice TWD mug- see the photos in the Scavenger Hunt topic, Welcome, and Announcements area.
Sept 22, 2017 14:49:24 GMT -5