It's just so hard to buy into this movie. Right from the start, Oscar Isaac gets into a fire fight with cartel members. Shortly after he chases a way too pretty prisoner in the cleanest jeans I have ever seen on a man. Not a spec of blood or dirt to be found. And that's how the rest of the movie looks and feels. There's one scene at night right after the first recon job, where the 5 guys are standing around talking about the mission. I've never seen a prettier group of dudes. Beards, hair, eyebrows, all on point. One guy just had a UFC cage fight and looks like he had spent the last 10 weeks at the spa. Even Mark Boal mailed this thing in. In the opening lines of the movie, Charlie Hunnam talks about losing his sanity in a cereal aisle at the grocery store and grabbing some dude by the throat. It harkens back to The Hurt Locker and a much more effective Jeremy Renner looking lost in a cereal aisle at the end of that movie. Without any words you see how not for this world Renners character is, it's a powerful piece of story telling. Boal takes that scene he wrote for the Hurt Locker, adds a choke hold, then has a British Charlie Hunnam recite the scene into a camera. Needless to say the effect is not effective at all, you just don't believe it. And that's what I'll say about this and most Netflix movies, I just don't buy it.
Review of Triple Frontier
