Triple 9 (2016) poster
2016 · action · crime · adventure · thriller

Triple 9

Directed by John Hillcoat1h 55m2016
ElsewhereIMDb6.381kRT54%Metacritic52
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
  • twisty
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.

Our read · Triple 9 (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a grim, star-stacked heist that trades glamour for corruption.

ends devastatingit leaves you shakena rollercoastergrips by minute 12attention 4/5earns its length
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Skip it tonightYou want a clean caper payoff or can't handle nihilistic crime violence.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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