Triple 9

A new film from Australian director John Hillcoat should be reason to celebrate, so what the happened with Triple 9? How did Hillcoat manage to make an urban heist thriller feel so, well, generic? The opening scene depicts an Atlanta bank heist by a very disciplined group of bad guys who seem to know a lot about police procedure, timing their incursion to police-response times. The woman they were working for, Russian mafia boss Irina Vlaslov (Kate Winslet), refuses to release them from her employ until they do another, much bigger, much more difficult job: stealing incriminating documents from a Homeland Security building, which will secure her mobster husband’s release from prison. Triple 9 is as quick, loud and violent, but it washes away with no effort at all. Rated R. At Century Cinemas Del Monte, Maya Cinemas, Northridge Cinemas