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Triple Threat follows three mercenaries who find themselves protecting a billionaire’s daughter from assassins hired by a crime syndicate. What is the film actually about?

While the filmmakers tried to pretend that they were making a feature film with depth, plot, and meaning, this does not change the fact that they ended up making a lengthy compilation of fight scenes in hopes of capturing the audience’s attention. Indeed, Triple Threat is actually about how many fighting scenes a filmmaker can cram into one film.

That being said, the feature even fails at executing decent fight scenes, or giving them any sort of context; the entire film contains long choreographed fights that do not offer anything new to the overflowing genre, nor offer up a sequence of events that could actually be called a plot. The flow of the “plot” basically involves changing the setting of the fighting and adding the billionaire’s daughter in the middle of the film.

Triple threat is also completely silly on several occasions when it comes to certain scenes, such as someone being shot, blood spatter, and dying. The scenes are executed so poorly that they seem fake, silly, and gross.

There are also numerous passages that are overly grotesque for no apparent reason or added value to the plot, or the feature as a whole; therefore, audiences should be advised about the violent nature of several scenes in the feature.

The screenplay was also no good, with lifeless lines that are basic, predictable, and barely add anything new to the situation, and nor do they advance the so-called plot in any way.

The feature barely pays any attention to characterisation; randomly throwing bits and pieces of information about each of the three mercenaries in an arbitrary and shallow manner.

The acting was no different; Iko Uwais playing Jaka, one of the mercenaries, gave a slightly above mediocre performance with minimal but adequate use of facial expressions. Tony Jaa playing Payu was a close second especially when it came to a funny cooking scene that seemed to be the only genuine part of the entire feature. Tiger Hu Chen playing Long Fei gave a performance that was below mediocre, barely utilising any facial expressions or body language, and just relying on fighting skills.

If you just want to see a bunch of people fighting, you can find that for free on YouTube in the comfort of your own home. Therefore, there really is no reason to head to the cinema and watch Triple Threat.