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Free Fire

2016 Directed by Ben Wheatley

All guns. No control.

A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.

Brie Larson Sharlto Copley Armie Hammer Cillian Murphy Jack Reynor Sam Riley Michael Smiley Noah Taylor Babou Ceesay Enzo Cilenti Patrick Bergin Tom Davis Mark Monero Sara Dee

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Language

English

action crime thriller mystery

90 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 15

absolute insanity. A real-time pistol opera about how men are too stupid to have guns. it's so surefooted and confident with its comedy that even Sharlto Copley is great in it. SHARLTO FUCKING COPLEY!! so wild and well-configured that it sustains its wisp of a premise for the full 90 minutes, only dipping into a few short lulls between all the mayhem. for a movie so juvenile and over the top there's something strangely reassuring about it... that people are still making movies like this, that other people are still paying them to.
Review by ellie ★★½ 1

if brie larson shot me i'd apologize for getting in the way of her bullets
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 25

It took me a little while to completely digest Ben Wheatley's Free Fire. I felt something was off. I couldn't figure out what it was. Then, it hit me like a bullet. It's the action. I could replay scene after scene in my head. I knew what was going on. It should be total chaos. That's what I'm used to seeing in crazy action movies. If you have an hour + long gunfight, there should be disorganization. Bullet fly. People die. That's what we are trained to expect. Yes, the bullets fly. Yes, people die. But, it's done in a Ben Wheatley special kind of way. A lot of credit should be given to his script writing partner wife, Amy…
Review by Lucy ★★★★ 6

almost as unraveling and incoherent as high rise, only more compressed and much more satisfying. does for guns what mad max fury road did for cars

and A24 + brie larson remain maybe my new favorite cinematic collaboration
Review by brat pitt ★★★ 9

one step closer to the all-female reservoir dogs reboot we deserve
Review by matt lynch ★½ 11

An 84 minute shootout without an iota of coherent geography or even the vaguest indication of who's shooting and what and why. Wheatley's a flashy mimic with absolutely no agenda, and it's saying something to call this his most vapid work yet.

Recent reviews

Review by maiyacicmil ★★★

this film looked so good, i was so disappointed with the final result.
Review by Matt Girello ★★½

How on Earth is this movie boring?
Review by TimTheTree ★★★

A great sense of space and the characters were fun. Unfortunately some pacing troughs make it tricky to stay invested for the duration.
Review by kobi <3 ★★½

the longest 90 minute film of all time i think
Review by coldb12 ★★★

I didn’t really enjoy the first two acts but the third act was pretty great. Might be a 5 but leaning closer to keeping this at a 6
Review by jacobson

(with commentary)
this remains to be a riot of laughs and has a ton of visceral punch.
Review by Aiaan Makarov ★★★½

аплодирую редко, но здесь не удержался.)

- трансформация рейнора от смазливого парня из четвёртых трансов в жирного очкарика доставляЭ
- выкрикивать "не понял, кто куда стреляет" могут только слепые
- ожидал куда большего цинизма, что ли. оно и без того жестокое, но ждал совсем бездушных персонажей, где все без шуток просто пытаются убить оппонента. конечно, мои ожидания оправдывались иногда, но я ПОЧЕМУ-ТО ждал другого
- я загрустил в финале, но самый последний кадр достоин аплодисментов. а то подумал, что наконец-то какое-то отрицательное составляющее вылезло, хехе
- дубляж максимально цензурили, как могли, но старались, чертяги, старались. из ушей ничего не вытекает, терпимо. жду, когда выйдет blu-ray, с английскими сабами пересмотрю, на 100% уверен, что протащусь
Review by Opazo ★★½

So I did a list on ranking the A24 films I had seen and I said that I want to watch more A24 films this year. So I went on youtube and watched some trailers for A24 films that I had not seen before. Free Fire was one of them. The trailer looked like a fun film so I watched it and I got dissapointed. On the surface this could have been great film. I mean a gun deal gone wrong and then a shootout for like an hour. What could have gone wrong ? I would say the biggest problems of this film is the characters and the location but also the editing.

Let’s start with the characters. They…
Review by John ★★½

Funny rapport among the collection of bad guys and one gal, all stuck No Exit style in a warehouse, and the cosmos won't let them stop shooting they just shoot and shoot---rarely straight--- until it is clear that hell is other people.

I like the design and the wild outfits although I kept thinking that masked crusaders might bust in to finally take everyone to Gotham Jail. Sharlto Copley rules again. Of course it doesn't hurt, "I'm from Africa."