AVClub: Cops and robbers is a game that plenty of grown men never outgrow. A lucky few even get to play it with cameras and movie stars. Take John Hillcoat. The Aussie director has spent his career violently colliding two sides of the law, pitting guards against prisoners (Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead), soldiers against desperados (The Proposition), and deputies against bootleggers (Lawless). Hillcoat may switch up the scenery, leaping across oceans and eras, but the conflict—between vicious anarchy and oppressive control—rarely changes. And while it’s possible to extrapolate headier points about human nature from his work, the basic appeal of a Hillcoat joint is not so highfalutin: Those who like watching badasses of all walks point fists or guns at each other will get familiar chills of adolescent glee.
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TRR: Triple 9 borrows from films like Training Day, End of Watch and Harsh Times to paint a portrait of a city besieged by gang warfare and corruption. But while the movie definitely treads on familiar cinematic territory, make no mistake, the result is so much more than just another entry in the testosterone-fueled, cops-and-robbers genre.
Dana Abercrombie from Film Takeout writes:
"The movie is barrage of claustrophobic close-ups as people are packed in together under dim and sweaty lighting. If that wasn’t visual enough, the movie takes place in the downtrodden landscape of Atlanta, with decaying buildings, murky lifestyles and complicated rules of the underworld. On one block a gun battle takes place while a baby lies in a bed nearby."
