Mike Goes To Movies

Triple Frontier (2019) Okay, so I had no really expectations going into this one, I was simply a bit bored the other evening and looking for something to watch and fell upon JC Chandor's Triple Frontier, one of Netflix's new marquee films. I did not see Chandor's previous, A Most Violent Year, but I did see All Is Lost, which starred Robert Redford and was actually quite excellent. At the end of the day, Triple Frontier is likely not going to wow anyone. It very much is what it is. It is the tried and true story of a group of old friends getting back together for one final (and dangerous) job. In this, the film boasts quite the remarkable cast in Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund and Pedro Pascal. Isaac is one of my absolute favourites of the 'new generation' of top caliber actors and, for the most part, he is the one who gives the film gravitas of any kind. In an apt move by the filmmakers, Hunnam and Hedlund play brothers in the film, ...