999 - a conditional code in the negotiations of the American police, which means that one of the colleagues is injured or attacked, requires help. The film “Three Nines” has a lot of advantages, starting with the Cannes and Venetian nominees in the director’s chair, a whole gallery of popular and recognizable names in casting and ending with a plot that combines several thematic areas. Possessing all of the above, the picture, if it did not create a new benchmark in the subgenre of the criminal thriller, then definitely made a weighty bid for this. This is the position of the film “Three Nines” (2016) by the actors and the crew of the project.
Two hour bloody carousel
Director John Hillcoat, the creator of The Road, hasn't been filming since 2012 after the release of The World's Most Drunkest District, which has been widely viewed by critics and viewers. The film “Three Nines” (2016), whose actors and roles also received mixed reviews, was called directorial work on the mistakes made four years ago. Hillcote’s new project is full of characters that the author is trying in vain to place in one storyline, saturated with a lot of branches. The gunman takes off on the bat, reckless bank robbery at the beginning is only a warm-up before the real thing, which, naturally, will not go according to plan. As a result, the authors will have to shoot half the heroes. The project script came out of the pen of the author of the famous "Controversy" - Michael Mann, so these two paintings could not be avoided.
Plot
The actors and roles of the film "Three Nines" will certainly be remembered by the viewer, despite the many characters in the story.
The action introduces the beholder to the policemen Franco (C. Collins Jr.), Marcus (E. Mackie) and Gabe (A. Paul), the latter being a retired cop. Heroes team up with former members of the special forces - Russell (N. Reedus) and Michael (C. Ejiofor). The team makes a sweeping raid on the bank, as it later becomes known - at the direction of the Russian Jewess Irina Vlasova (K. Winslet), who temporarily leads the criminal group. She is the sister of the ex-wife and aunt of Michael’s son, who does not allow her father to see the child. The hero of Chiwetel hopes that after the implementation of the mission he will spend more time with the baby, but the calculating criminal sets up a new task for the detachment, which is practically impossible.
To implement the plan, the group decides to use an effective distraction trick - killing a policeman. In this situation, the code “999” will be activated, and all law enforcers who are nearby, ignoring other challenges, will go to the rescue of their colleague. As a victim, a new partner of Marcus, recently transferred from another site Chris (Casey Affleck), is selected . This idea of the creators was realized in the film “Three Nines” (2016) by the actors involved in the production of the tape.
Kindred Action
John Hillcoat's new work is truly oversaturated with heroes. Not all central characters were listed above. Chris, for example, has a young spouse and an uncle-cop suffering from alcohol addiction, played by Woody Harrelson. All the actors are so overgrown with family ties that it is easy to confuse who is who who is who. However, the authors did this consciously. As the actors stated in an interview with the media, the film “Three Nines” (2016) is not a movie about impudent offenses, but about family ties and about the acts they push people to. But the director coped with this task mediocre. The story of human relationships and the strength of kindred ties is drowning in plot twists and unnecessary details. In fact, the acting potential is squandered, star performers have practically nothing to play.
Acting Ensemble
In the film "Three Nines" (2016), the actors were invited to the first magnitude. Each performer created a unique, vivid personality of his character: the unlucky junkie junkie Aaron Paul, the two-faced forensic forensic scientist Clifton Collins Jr., the silent idealist cop performed by Casey Affleck , who does not part with gum. Affleck, by the way, is not the first time to combine extraordinary coolness and complete helplessness in one hero.
Female characters are represented no less worthily. True, Teresa Palmer and Gal Gadot were in the shadow of Kate Winslet, who was excellent in the image of an icy prudent bitch. It seems that the actress, tired of the academic prim movie, comes off to the full. Watching her skills is a pleasure.
Woody Harrelson and Chiwetel Ejiofor also presented fantastic acting work ; the hero of the first is excessively hot-tempered, the second is restrained and persistent. All the actors of the film “Three Nines” (2016) worked exemplary-professionally.
Classic action
Some critics claim that John Hillcoat's work lacks psychologism and depth. The creators' ambitions were clearly wider than the genre canons of a police action movie, so each of the many characters was formally endowed with its own story and motivation, but, unfortunately, it was deprived of the opportunity to truly show itself, to fully reveal itself. At the same time, it should be noted that “Three Nines” is a classic action game, where a criminal intrigue is at the head, leaving romance, “human drama” and psychologism on the sidelines. And who said this is bad? Sometimes you want to enjoy watching just such a movie - focused on something specific, at the same time sharp, like a razor.