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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