Special Forces Go Rogue in Netflix Heist Thriller 'Triple Frontier'

"Make no mistake about it: You guys need to own the fact that we do not have the flag on our shoulders."

Netflix takes another shot at the big-budget movie game next month with "Triple Frontier," opening in select theaters March 6 and streaming March 13.

A group of Special Forces veterans find themselves at loose ends after they complete their service. They're broke and bored. They decide to take down a South American drug lord and keep his $75 million in cash for themselves, doing some good and finally padding their bank accounts at the same time.

Of course, things don't go to plan.

Writer/director J.C. Chandor has already made three outstanding movies this decade, none of which got the attention they deserved.

"Margin Call" (2011) is a thriller that unfolds over 24 hours at a financial services company during the 2008 financial crisis. "All is Lost" (2014) features one of the greatest (and nearly silent) Robert Redford performances as a sailor trying to save himself after he collides with a shipping container on the open seas. "A Most Violent Year" (2014) looks at the mechanics of big-city corruption in the early 1980s. None of those descriptions makes the movies sound like thrillers, but they're all incredibly smart films that never let up in building tension.

That rep has allowed Chandor to recruit an all-star cast for "Triple Frontier." Ben Affleck is done with Batman and looks happy to be back to making movies for adult men. He's joined by Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron in the current "Star Wars" trilogy), Charlie Hunnam ("Sons of Anarchy"), Garrett Hedlund ("TRON: Legacy") and Pedro Pascal ("Game of Thrones" and "Narcos").

Chandor wrote the screenplay with Mark Boal, who won a pair of Oscars for "The Hurt Locker" and has collaborated with director Kathryn Bigelow on "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Detroit." If nothing else, all of us can agree that Boal's work provokes a wide variety of strong reactions.

We'll have more on "Triple Frontier" as the release date approaches.