Triple 9 English Movie

Good cops do bad things to save one cop's child, become bad cops. Bad cops now get badder. Street gangs get involved. Everyone shoots at each other and bad cops use this to kill good cops. There's a bigger cop trying to figure out what's wrong with bad cops. Then more shootouts happen. And everyone dies. This movie is that pointless. Mar 10, 2016 By Manisha Lakhe

No matter how cool you make shootouts happen, no matter how gory and grisly your torture gets (we see someone's toes being chopped off and put in ziploc bags), the movie needs some sanity built into it so the audience has something to take away. Even in 'The Departed' and everything in its ilk this movie tries to borrow from, the audience is treated to a sense of 'I know why good people to turn into bad' or 'how bad people meet justice' and so on. Even though one is not racist the basic premise is so hard to swallow: Jewish Russian girl from mafia family has a child from an African American cop and wants to keep him. The rest of the Russian jews look orthodox enough, but this girl saunters about in bikinis and practically no clothes. It's her sister (Kate Winslet in a jaw-droppingly bad role) who is master manipulator who makes good cop do bad things or he will not ever see the kid.

Nothing new, right? But it takes courage to turn a familiar bad cops/blackmail story into this bullet riddled nonsense. We see bad cops hold up bank to steal 'stuff' secured in a locker which will help the release of a bad guy stuck in gulag by the Russian government (Unbelievable index just shot through the roof here!). They so good at the hold up job, but brainless because they steal cash that smokes dye and they have to rethink plan. In doing that, they hold up traffic on a busy highway, kill a couple of people, smash cars, there's gunfire as if bullets were on sale, have helicopters and cops chase them, they end up in a parking lot after dodging cop cars that end in a pile up and everyone curses the dye, they change clothes and they leave.

While you're still recovering from the nonsense, you see Kate Winslet in bad gun totting role and realise she is behind it all. And the good cop turned bad just drives his kid over to the bad guys (and mom) and has to agree to another job ...

We are distracted then by chopped off heads taped to a car, chopped off toes, Latino gangs with tattoos who are surly and rude to the cops. Why? Who knows. But great search and shootout sequence. Good cop shot here. It could have been done simply, but...

Back to a could have been super drunk/doped cop sequence from Woody Harrelson. But seriously? Did we need this? Isn't there a single clean cop in Atlanta?

There's more shooting, and there's more people dying, more betrayal... Everything you can see a mile before it hits the screen. You're still chuckling over Kate Winslet when she kills the last bad cop. Why have I given the story away, you ask? Borrowing from Col. Nathan Jessop from A Few Good Men, I can say, So you don't have to see such ridiculous movies.