![]() ![]() ![]() Only this time, they’re running this mission for themselves, not for any government or ideology. But he needs help from his old buddies, so “Triple Frontier” becomes one of those tried-and-true genre movies about getting the team back together for one final score. ![]() Working with an informant ( Adria Arjona, who gets little to do besides run and be beautiful), Pope crafts a plan to steal the $75 million the crime boss has stashed away inside his hidden fortress of a home. The film begins with Isaac’s Santiago “Pope” Garcia, now a private military contractor, leading a heavily armed team in an explosive raid of a drug cartel kingpin’s secret lair inside a disco. (The Triple Frontier is where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet at a bend in the Parana River.) But by then, we know so little about them that we’re not nearly as invested as we should be in the difficult decisions they must make in the name of survival. The aftermath of the crime is more intriguing than the set-up, as the movie’s quintet of former special-ops badasses struggles to navigate one obstacle after another in the treacherous section of South America that gives the film its title. But while the action itself is vividly shot and often quite tense, the characters are so thinly drawn that it’s impossible to connect with them, much less care about whether they make a clean getaway with their stolen millions. ![]()
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