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movie review - Triple Frontier

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a story of a band of mercenaries and former soldiers who come together to rob a drug lord. Their rationale is that they've served their country and now they're owed a pay-day. Would that make it worth risking everything in an unsupported free-fire raid on a heavily protected fortress-compound in a foreign country From my internal audit studies I can confirm that this is a very typical rationale for someone to take high risks in things like fraud and theft. So, yes.

Anyway, the crew are not presented as particularly sympathetic or even likeable characters - they barely seem to tolerate one another. But one way or another, they acquire all the supporting materiel they need and the caper unfolds in a rainy and tense season.

Things do not go as expected, and not for the sort of reasons you might think. When a physical limitation like altitude plays a crucial part in the conclusion of the story, you're in an interesting position.

While it's a bit formulaic in overall story and in its telling, I think we know that going into this. It's a made-for-TV-movie, after all. That said, the cast is superb and the story just original enough. I'd watch this again. Recommended.