Review of Free Fire

Free Fire (2016)
7/10
Tarantino, Ritchie, Woo, Scorsese, they're all here . . . with lots of guns
4 May 2017
By no means an "important" movie, but a good way to kill a Thursday afternoon in an empty theater. "Free Fire" makes no pretense at anything other than a sustained warehouse shootout intermixed with snatches of dialogue (snarky banter for the most part). Its cast of reprobates in gaudy '70s wear is really what makes this fun (in particular the foxy Brie Larson, and both Armie Hammer and Sharlto Copley providing yuks).

I really did grow to like these people (some more so) and that helps when the whizzing bullets start to lose their appeal (I say that as an ardent admirer of cinematic gun-play); enough so that the loss of one character was a real disappointment. We never got to hear the John Denver story!

7/10
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