Review of Free Fire (2017) by Ginak — 24 Apr 2017

I went to this film because I was curious about Ben Wheatley as a director and because I like Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy. Definitely this was much more than a dumb shoot’em up, although I can’t say I found it fun.

Certainly Wheatley cleverly created a genuinely odd cast of characters, and although there was a lot of shooting, there was surprisingly little gore. In a crazy way, the film was almost balletic, and definitely fate, irony, and chance played more of a role than usual in such films and there were really no heroes or villains.

I admired the film, although I can’t say I liked it, but I would definitely go to another Wheatley film – or watch this one again.