Free Fire

Action movies are often criticized for their unrealistic portrayal of guns as effectively one-hit instant kills (especially when a hero shoots a bad guy). This movie aims to correct this inaccuracy, with its characters absorbing an almost comical amount of gunshot wounds throughout its lean runtime. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it broke a record. And not the only one, as this movie also features what I have to assume is the most distance crawled, as its bullet riddled ensemble painfully drag themselves around the single-location setting for the majority of the film. Now this may all sound like criticism, and it certainly fits with another commenter's claim that the movie is repetitive, but I enjoyed it as a unique gimmick that was well executed and entertaining. Combine that with some quirky characters, clever dialogue, and great performances, and what could have been a simplistic, one-note b-movie, turns into a recent favorite.

Not many people have the chops to ditch everything but the gun fight out of an action movie, but Ben Wheatley has done this masterfully.

Silly accents, morons with guns and a hot chick...this movie was great

Considering I hated High Rise and was lukewarm, at best, on Kill List, I really had low expectations for this, despite the killer cast involved (which is really the reason I gave it a shot). Don't let any of Ben Wheatley's past work keep you away from this--it's a stellar old school action flick. Quips, switching allegiances, loads & loads of gunplay, and a focus directly on the action make this about 20 minutes of setup and 70 minutes of a bunch of people shooting it out inside of a warehouse. That's it. It's extremely lean, and extremely good because of it. Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, and Sharlto Copley all seem to be having a ball. Action fans won't want to pass this one up.

A group of Irish men want to buy weapons for their resistance and meet in an abandoned warehouse. Their team is a rather spontaneous group of not entirely trustworthy persons - but so is the team of the weapons dealer, and because of this everything goes wrong and turns into a movie filling shootout.

This movie consists of a number of situational comedy shaped by the fire exchange of all participants and the way that these fundamentally different react in such an hopeless situation. The shootout that takes up 80 percent of the movie is kept interesting by different objectives that both sides try to reach as well as their constant trying of maybe somehow defusing the situation and get out of it somehow (which again fails as someone else screws it up again).

While the story is simple and can basically be summed up in a paragraph, the movie manages to stay entertaining the entire time using comedy, action and great shooting and storytelling, as well as using parallel storylines. If I had to compare the movie to another, I guess the closest match would be Tarantinos Reservoir Dogs; however the movie is still quite distinct, has it's own comedy style and is powerd rather by comedy than by excessive brutality (although it is brutal as well, of course). So in the end even people that don't like Reservoire Dogs end up liking this movie (my girlfriend for example).

I was grealty entertained and enjoyed this movie quite a lot.

Very fun movie. Simple concept, gun deal goes bad and everyone has a gun and they start shooting at each other. It was unintentionally (or maybe intentional) funny some of the situations the people get into. Short runtime made it an easy watch. Brie Larson is a babe.

In the hands of a lesser director, this could have been awful. As it is, its a mostly competent shoot em up, with a nice line of humour and committed playing from the cast. Probably worth a second watch to catch all the details that are bound to be missed the first time around.

Lots of guns, lots of action, lots of John Denver.

First 30 minutes and last 15 minutes are great but it tends to drag a bit around the middle yet the action scenes are put together very well to keep you interested. Sharlto Copley is a stand-out from the cast who are all excellent to make the film great fun overall.