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All guns. No control.
A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.
Free Fire
2016 Directed by Ben Wheatley
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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.
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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…
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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
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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.
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An absolute gun opera. The back-and-forth, natural dialogue is hysterically funny, the costume design and general aesthetic of the film is grand, the cinematography allows for method in the madness, partnered with an array of extremely talented actors just simply letting their hair down. Not to mention the exciting and classy soundtrack and music cues, which only highlights the 70s thematic and compliments the wired and chaotic gunplay, suiting the tone of the film, brilliantly. Overall it's just a fucking entertaining movie, this is one seriously underrated film, I'm proud to welcome it to my collection, after a viewing in cinema. Keep up the good work A24.
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This movie was quite interesting in the way it depicted the shootout (which was the majority of the movie) in that it a bit more realistic. I love a John Woo film the much as the next guy, but this film tries to show what might really happen if people who weren’t highly skilled soldiers or martial arts masters got into a big fight. I did say a “bit” more realistic though as it did still make light of most of the situation with comedic breaks and had its share of ridiculousness. The characters were intriguing and the action was constant for the most part, though there were a few parts of bad pacing, and it was silly enough to…
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I had to pick something that would please everyone and for some reason I picked this
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Si no existe el gunstick, Free Fire lo inventa.
Hay que ser muy muy bueno para dirigir esto. Por ejemplo, usar el caos espacial a tu favor para la comedia, como subtexto y junto a los disparos, como eje narrativo. Qué está pasando es importante, pero cómo pasa aquí es maravilloso. Y voy a recordar el timming de humor negro que tiene Ben Wheatley porque hay que reivindicarlo.La próxima película de Wheatley se llama Colin You Anus, y tiene como proyecto hacer una nueva adaptación de El salario del Miedo. Y un comic de Frank Miller. Como no voy a querer a este hombre.
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based on the trailers, i wasn't super-enthused about seeing this, but the high ratings and cast lured me in. this gun-deal-gone-bad flick pretty much plays out like you'd expect it to, and although several of the one-liners are spoiled by the trailers, there's still plenty more to go 'round with quick, witty dialogue, and expletives galore. everyone gets pretty equal screen time as they all get shot and try to leave with the money (and bonus there's only a tiny bit of gore).
i wasn't 100% convinced by cillian murphy's scottish accent, but he does well enough. sharlto copley is entertaining, as always (and in his native south african accent), and armie hammer holds his own as the mediator in…
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