I like how 97% of the top posts in the Triple Frontier tag is Pedro Pascal and Oscar Isaac
... rightfully so! They made the movie awesome.
I don’t get why it has such bad reviews on imdb etc. - maybe because it kind of subverts macho action flick expectations and dudebros were cranky about that?
The basic message that I got from it was that the four other guys put their faith in Tom and expect that if he’s with them, they can pull it off, but then it turns out that Tom is the most greedy, lost, dumbass, trigger happy one of them all who ruins their plan in several instances. Some examples: He doesn’t want to exit the location when they planned to, because he wants to take even more money; he doesn’t want to leave part of the money on the runway although the helicopter can’t carry it in as high altitudes as they need to fly; he’s confrontational when they try to negotiate with the villagers after their crash landing and the first one to fire his weapon. And the other guys follow his lead and look past his mistakes, sharing the responsibility for them, because they have this idea of Tom that he’s the best.
Then Tom is killed in a personal revenge act by one of their victims. The other four want to honour their memory of him and maintain the glorious image they have of him, and they give what relatively little they did get out of the heist to Tom’s family.
This message was foreshadowed with the scene where Tom’s daughter reminds Pope that Tom hasn’t worked in a long time, but Pope won’t acknowledge that and tells her Tom’s a good man and she shouldn’t be too hard on him.
I thought it was an exciting action/heist movie and that this basic concept made it even more interesting - it’s kind of a critique of ‘toxic masculinity’ / patriarchy within a heist movie lol.