Free Fire review: "Loud, ripe, violent, bloody, and blackly funny"

GamesRadar+ Verdict

Lo🗹ud, ripe, violent, bloody and blackly funny, Free Fire cocks its gun right in your face. See it – and bring earplugs.

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Brit director Ben Wheatley follows up 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:High-Rise with another ’70s showcase. Swapping a tower block for a warehouse, he boldly build🤪s an entire film around the ꦍmother of all Mexican stand-offs. Any one-location movie is a risky proposition, but Wheatley and co-writer/co-editor Amy Jump double their difficulties by stripping backstory to the bare minimum and letting the bullets fly.

To get some idea of the eardrum assault that is the Free Fire experꦍience, picture True Romance’s magnificent ending stretched out to 90 minutes. It starts with two gangs arriving at a Massachusetts docks, circa 1978, for a major arms deal. In the red corner: Provisional IRA members Frank (Michael Smiley) and Chris (Cillian Murphy), joined by hired muscle Stevo (Sam Riley) and Bernie (Enzo Cilenti).

Supplying 30 assault rifles is South African gun-runner Vernon (Sharlto Copley), with a manner so cocksure you just know he’s getting a bullet from someone. His back-up includes Harry (ไan unrecognisable Jack Reynor) and Gordon (Noah Taylor).

And somewhere in the middle, brokering the deal,🦩 is Armie Hammer’s sharp-suited Ord, his associate Martin (Babou Ceesay) and Justine (Brie Larson), the lone lady amid this tidal wave of testosterone.

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