With Chandor doubling as director the movie looks great but makes surprisingly little of the personal conflicts that arise.

Alas, just as broken clocks have their moments of accuracy, even the most gifted directors occasionally offer up disappointments. Such is the case with J.C. Chandor's fourth film, Triple Frontier.

Triple Frontier doesn't entirely manage to transcend the traps of action movie, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

I think what we really mean is that films need to earn their shifts in tone. If a film is going to display life’s wanton curveballs, it needs to show that it’s willing to get down into the grittiness of this thing we call life...