Film
Free Fire
- Director
- Ben Wheatley
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 91 mins
Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Ben Wheatley‘s follow-up to High-Rise is a ’70s-set shootout flick that is impossible to review without mentioning Reservoir Dogs, largely because of its setting and constant wisecracking – though Wheatley has said he was chiefly inspired by Sam Peckinpah.
Oscar-winning Room star Brie Larson plays Justine, who brokers a meeting between two wary parties in an abandoned Boston warehouse. A pair of IRA men (Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) are here to buy a huge cache of weapons from a South African arms dealer (Sharlto Copley) and his stoner frontman (Armie Hammer). But when a longstanding feud erupts between trigger-happy minor goons (Sam Riley, Jack Reynor), a bloody great shoot-out ensues. There’s a local angle too, as the film is scored by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, who did such excellent work on Ex Machina.
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