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Metascore
41 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe shifting loyalties and treacherous power plays that go on in Triple 9 are engaging, but Hillcoat especially shines in a series of three taut life-or-death sequences — one at the start of the film, one near the middle, and one at the end — that articulate more about who these characters are than anything they say.
- 80Total FilmJamie GrahamTotal FilmJamie GrahamThis is the anti-Heat: no sheen, no shimmer, no obsessing over highly grandiose themes and precise compositions; just grime and desperation.
- 80Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonTime Out LondonTom HuddlestonThere may be little here we haven’t seen before – glassy reflections of Michael Mann’s Heat pop up everywhere you look – but it’s all carried off with brashness and momentum by a director who genuinely seems to be having a blast.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangWell suited to Hillcoat’s gifts for low-boil suspense and brutal eruptions of violence in close, male-dominated quarters, the film has grit and atmosphere to burn but also a certain narrative sketchiness, as though unable to reconcile its sharp sociological portraiture with the pleasures of a more robustly plotted crime yarn.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyIndividual scenes are charged with energy, tense confrontations are numerous, and Hillcoat and Cook's intentions were undoubtedly partly to tease and taunt viewers with uncertainly about where they, and the characters, stand, to figure out who's got the power and who doesn't. If it was possible to give a damn about any of them, it would help.
- 50The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonAs well-handled as the set pieces are, the connective tissue doesn’t pull you along, and then collapses completely in a messy, unsatisfying final act.
- 40CineVueJamie NeishCineVueJamie NeishTriple 9 becomes a victim of its own inane script. All the usual cop tropes are there - and that's part of the problem. Rarely does screenwriter Matt Cook throw anything at the page that hasn't been done better elsewhere.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe story is clotted and overloaded, lacking the necessary clean tautness and suspense. And Kate Winslet's turn as a hatchet-faced Russian mob matriarch is a bit on the ridiculous side.
- 30TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeA howlingly inane movie that somehow managed to collect an impressively A-list cast on its way toward becoming a cop movie that’s not just dumb, it’s disastrous.