The best kinds of movies teach us a valuable lesson. Sometimes the heroes sacrifice something for the good of others and then realize they never needed that thing in the first place. Triple Frontier doesn’t do that.

The movie is about 5 Delta Force soldiers, Pope, Redfly, Ironhead, Benny and Catfish, all down their luck and assembled to rob a South American drug lord. The heist is mostly a success, the drug lord is killed and the team steals over $250 million dollars in drug money. The only issue is the helicopter can’t lift it all and eventually crashes in a cocaine field.

Redfly shoots an aggressive farmer and the team takes some of their donkeys and continue their journey towards the rondeau point. Well, a pair of farmers didn’t take kindly to that, track down the group and kills Redfly. Lugging Redfly’s body and the money is too much so the team decides to dump the bags in a ravine and take what they can carry. 

The final scene is the team with a lawyer discussing the splitting up over 5 million and putting Redfly’s share in a trust for his family. Instead of taking their share, they all decide to put their shares into the trust. As they all say their goodbyes, Ironhead gives Pope the coordinates to the dumped money. Pope smiles and walks off.

What was the lesson here? Pope will end up going back for the money and get to keep the $245 million dollars for himself. If the idea was to show that greed can get your friends killed, then Pope would’ve torn up the paper and lived his life. Terrible message in a terrible movie.

World War Joe