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.

if brie larson shot me i'd apologize for getting in the way of her bullets

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

one step closer to the all-female reservoir dogs reboot we deserve

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.

brie larson shooting a bunch of men? sign me up

The great ensemble cast, the witty exchanges of banter between them, and the simple, low-budget genre movie flair make Free Fire a lot of fun even if the chaotic quick cuts of the gun fights are a little too unfocused and disorienting for my taste.

The first Ben Wheatley movie which I fully enjoyed. He's able to maintain his aesthetic ambitions (crazy psychedelia/crime+horror/etc) by making a film out of one big shootout, and while it might not be as cool in premise to me as some of his other movies, this is definitely the most fun and consistent in pace that he's done yet.

this is a prime example of actors, dialogue,  and characters being able to actually make something out of a film with a weak plot. my favorite part was anything armie hammer did. there was literally a scene where his character said “anyways” when someone died.
also, brie larson snapped. would highly recommend.

Der Film findet am Schauplatz eines fehlgeschlagenen Waffendeals statt. Der daraus entstehende Überlebenskampf erinnert an Battle Royale. Durch das Schnittgewitter geht dabei leider häufig die Übersicht verloren, wobei es den Charakteren nicht anders geht. Der Film macht aber trotzdem Spaß und sieht mit seinem 70s Look auch gut aus.

Nowhere near as fun--or, idk, edgy?--as it aspires to be. I got bored maybe 30 minutes in; there's only so much wounded crawling around I can watch. Sharlto Copley was still charming, though.

Armie stop shooting those guys and shoot me with your load instead.

Men can't shoot properly.