{"id":5287,"date":"2019-03-23T11:14:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:11:02","slug":"netflix-triple-frontier-2019-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/netflix-triple-frontier-2019-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix’s Triple Frontier is aggro, macho horseshit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier<\/em>, Netflix’s latest high-profile exclusive, aspires to be a serious Expendables<\/em>. It draws surface-level inspiration from the likes of Heat<\/em> and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre<\/em>, but forgets that you need more than square jaws and gun porn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s some dramatic potential in the premise of a heist orchestrated by veterans left behind by their country, fancying themselves a band of Robin Hoods robbing from criminals. Certainly none of them are Merry Men, and it fails to seriously grapple with what should have been interestingly conflicting motivations: moral duty vs. financial need vs. greed vs. vengeance. It instead becomes yet another macho gun movie where grim white dudes growl at each other and shoot Central Americans in the head for two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aggro, macho horseshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier, Netflix’s latest high-profile exclusive, aspires to be a serious Expendables. It draws surface-level inspiration from the likes of Heat and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but forgets that you need more than square jaws and gun porn. 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