Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Really Surprised!

Good start, but then it gets ruined

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

"999" or "Triple-9" is police radio code for Officer Down (I couldn't verify this tidbit in a quick online search, but I digress) I love gritty cop shows: from The Shield to its milder network version on NBC "Shades of Blue" or give me movies such as "Dark Blue" (Kurt Russell) or "Training Day" (Denzel Washington). So I was ready to really like this one, and given the all-star cast, a slam dunk for sure. Wow, was I disappointed! As many commenters have noted, these crooked cops are involved in the Russian mob and we're given no reason why these police officers are doing what they do. Just hinting at "money" or greed is not enough. Who are these people and how did they end up in this crazy situation? Sadly, the writer and director doesn't think those questions are important. So we're immersed in what I call "cop porn" where we cut out any back story or context and just cut to "the good parts" But in this case, without the back story, we don't care about any of the characters or what's transpiring on the screen. So a lengthy (and preposterous) shootout and chase in a gang-infested Atlanta housing development has no weight for us. It's like watching a bad video game. I don't know how they talked these A-list stars into making this turkey, but if the neuralizer from Men In Black really works, their agents should pool their $ and buy as many as it takes.

The idea of bringing great stars together was not bad.Because it was the individual performance that kept the movie alive.I have not watch a complicated movie in the last decade that this title.It was difficult to truly understand the content and plot.Casting was also not great,character combination was awful.

This film is bad, I'm unsure how they misused so much talent.It's just a badly written predictable film populated by stereotypical characters - the explosives expert you crossed gives you a package? Christ, he may as well have written 'BOMB' in massive letters on it or had a comically large fuse sticking out of it.From time to time great actors make poor films, in this case, that plural is true - many actors in this are great but my god did all of their 'miss' columns get an addition when this wrappedI saw this at a secret screening roughly around the time of Deadpool' release, it was never going to be that but the screen was packed with people thinking or hoping it may just be that but no.I have yet to see so many people exit a film in such a steady stream - it took a good 5 minutes for people to exit when 'Triple 9' came up and people after the initial exodus kept getting up and leaving until I think the last person who didn't stick it out left FORTY-FIVE MINUTES into the film, this is about 40% of the film, I have never seen a film be that bad that someone has got to that point and not been able to endure the rest of it and better yet, the cinema I saw it in had two screens playing this as demand was so high and BOTH had this 'nope' occur with people leaving until quite a while into the filmI can't rate this 0/10 as there isn't an option but please know I absolutely am doing that with my '1'

The opening scene is promising. It's a group of criminals that you find out are police officers are plotting to commit a difficult armed robbery. They decide that in spite of the odds they will go through with the plan. And what you eventually find out is that this film is just all about a group of characters who must obtain a McGuffin, no more no less.We then meet the woman who is calling the shots. The gritty film becomes laughable from there. Kate Winslet, looking nasty and wearing a gold Star of David pendant at least as large as a hockey puck is introduced, right after her two non-speaking thugs with cool haircuts and huge skull cap yarmulkas escort our black protagonist into the house. His half black son is being raised Jewish and also has a huge skull cap yarmulka on his head. Apparently all of this Russian mob also is connected with Israel. What did this have to do with the movie at all? At that point I could only wonder whether the film received financing from a middle east arab country or someone with a HUGE ax to grind with religious Jewish people and Israel. And that theme continues throughout the movie and right up front.There is nothing new as you move along. It's the same heavy handed message that there is no honor among thieves and criminals. I won't give away the ending. It's no big reveal you'll guess part of the explosive climax which doesn't make much sense if the characters are consistent with how they are presented. This is such a colossal waste of talent. A cast whose names are on some of the most well known and revered films of the past decade and the end result will only be memorable for how far out of the way the director goes to remind everyone that the most horrible criminal animals in this film are these reviled religious Jewish Israeli mobsters. Forgettable rubbish.