Loud, ripe, violent, bloody and blackly funny, Free Fire cocks its gun right in your face. See it – and bring earplugs.
Wheatley continues an unbroken run of quality, helped by a great cast and a startlingly effective premise. This is seriously cool, stuffed with great dialogue and riddled with bullets.
ree Fire seems so random and ultimately so frustrating to watch. There's the sense that the filmmakers are spraying bullets for the sake of it, with little idea of what they are actually aiming at.
Finally, a film that is as enjoyable to watch as it presumably was to make.
Ben Wheatley’s thriller about a protracted gun battle, starring Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy, has no plot – but it’s smart, stylish and dazzlingly put together.
It’s bloody, brilliant and blackly comic.
Free Fire is an exhilarating exercise in pure storytelling where Wheatley and co-writer Amy Jump are fi ring on all cylinders.
Free Fire cements Wheatley and Jump’s reputation as the UK’s most vigorously anarchic film-making duo. Unlike their hapless protagonists, they actually hit their targets. You’ll laugh, you’ll wince, you’ll duck.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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