Triple 9 (dir. John Hillcoat).

[It] isn’t much more than a cops and robbers movie about difficult men/women and criminals. Hillcoat’s band of overly talented actors lifts the gritty but boilerplate heist flick with an off-balance but entertaining mixture of style and substance. The film is so densely packed and often technically dazzling being full of ambition and overly dark themes yet slightly fails to connect its disparate but still worthy elements of bad cops and worse criminals. 

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