With Chandor doubling as director the movie looks great but makes surprisingly little of the personal conflicts that arise.

| Mar 27, 2019

Alas, just as broken clocks have their moments of accuracy, even the most gifted directors occasionally offer up disappointments. Such is the case with J.C. Chandor's fourth film, Triple Frontier.

| Mar 21, 2019

Triple Frontier doesn't entirely manage to transcend the traps of action movie, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

| Mar 19, 2019

This very good analysis of American imperialism and its devastatingly insidious effects on the individuals it ensnares into its web is frustratingly only about half of Triple Frontier.

| Mar 19, 2019

Triple Frontier makes a decent stab at looking beyond the usual ambitions of the genre. There's thought behind all this gun-toting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 18, 2019

J.C. Chandor turns an intensely physical narrative into another of his inadvertently generic studies of procedure.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 15, 2019

There are some zippy chase scenes and shootouts, and tension throughout. But the characters - especially the lethargic Affleck - make for more of a C-Team than an A-Team.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2019

There's a meta-narrative in there somewhere, condemning films like Triple Frontier for exploiting the violence of war for superficial ends, but Chandor doesn't delve into self-analysis long enough to make a point about it.

| Mar 13, 2019

If you dig shoot-'em-up sequences, "Triple Frontier" has plenty and they're often the default. Yet what it does well - though not enough - is introduce the complicated motivations of characters and what's led them to this somewhat impossible mission.

| Mar 13, 2019

Crime doesn't pay!

| Mar 12, 2019

While the action itself is vividly shot and often quite tense, the characters are so thinly drawn that it's impossible to connect with them, much less care about whether they make a clean getaway with their stolen millions.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 12, 2019

Triple Frontier has the good sense to take a macho, "Expendables"-like set-up and turn it inward. It just doesn't go far enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2019

Triple Frontier becomes a fascinating sustained exercise in absurdist triage, as one mishap after another forces the men to decide whether they're prepared to throw away obscene amounts of money in order to save their skins.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 7, 2019

It's a movie that maybe tries to do too much, but it does enough of it well to keep you glued to the screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2019

This Netflix action blowout gets a pass on mindless escapism, but its attempt to sell itself as something deeper is beyond redemption.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 6, 2019

"Triple Frontier" is a slog-not just for the men hiking through the rough Andes terrain with bags of money, but for audiences as well.

| Mar 6, 2019

The idea behind "Triple Frontier" could have easily supported a multi-layered movie filled with action, interesting characters and ethical quandaries. That was certainly the intent, to be sure, but the film comes up short in all three areas.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 6, 2019

Fails as an action film, fails as a drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2019

Triple Frontier is engaging in parts with well-mounted action. But the characters lack definition and you can't help but think an old timer like Howard Hawks or Sam Fuller might have done it better in half the time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2019

When greed runs up against conscience, you've got a story. It does in "Triple Frontier," and the story of that collision is a violent and thought-provoking one.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2019