This year alone, Brie Larson has won a Best Acting Oscar,
filmed Free Fire with Cillian Murphy and Armie Hammer, and wrapped production on Kong: Skull Island and The Glass Castle (co-starring Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson).
That aside I am desperate to catch this year's closing
film Free Fire as it unites the fearless Brie Larson with revolutionary Ben Wheatley.
At about 15 minutes into Ben Wheatley's sixth feature
film Free Fire, it becomes pretty clear we're probably not leaving this room anytime soon.
The film Free Fire is set in Boston in 1978 and revolves around a gun deal gone bad.
A brand new 60 - second trailer has launched for
the film Free Fire, the latest from British filmmaker Ben Wheatley.
Not exact matches
HHG — The
film is an exercise of
free speech that should not be suppressed — this is not a case of yelling «
fire» in a crowded theater.
The
film is an exercise of
free speech that should not be suppressed — this is not a case of yelling «
fire» in a crowded theater.
therealpeace2all — The
film is an exercise of
free speech that should not be suppressed — this is not a case of yelling «
fire» in a crowded theater.
«
Free Fire» is not Wheatley's best
film, but it is a rollicking good time and, more important, an inadvertent skeleton key to thinking about and understanding the rest of his
films.
The promotional campaign for Ben Wheatley's «
Free Fire» had me convinced it would be the divisive filmmaker's first
film to truly satisfy.
For those who don't mind a little blood & gore and a lot of profanity,
Free Fire is a superior alternative to the big - name, bloated action
films hogging the largest screens in most multiplexes.
With that being said, the premise and star power for
Free Fire looked enough to even out my immediate hesitation about watching another Wheatley
film.
He was adamant that the story premise of
Free Fire could not be done as a feature
film and was, at best, the sort of material for a 20 - minute shoot - em - up short.
Films like 127 Hours that work unique visuals in, in order to tell the story, are remarkable, but
films like
Free Fire just don't have enough substance to sustain its 90 minute run time.
I thought that
Free Fire might be reminiscent of the rise of Tarantino knockoff
films in the 90s (The Big Hit, 2 Days in the Valley, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Suicide Kings) but this movie actually made me yearn for a Tarantino knockoff.
Free Fire may seem like it sprays bullets indiscriminately but that distraction masks a technically smart
film.
I argued that with the proper development there could be a scraggly feature
film here but the key phrase is «proper development,» something that is sorely lacking from
Free Fire.
As The Disaster Artist (both the book and the movie) details, he made all sorts of bizarre, incompetent decisions, like shooting his movie on 35 - millimeter and digital
film simultaneously at prohibitive expense, building elaborate and pricey sets for locations he could have
filmed on for
free, and
firing crew members without cause at the drop of a hat.
Nothing is set in stone, but Freakshift is looking to begin
filming in August, shortly after Vikander wraps
filming on the new Tomb Raider movie and a few months after Wheatley's next movie,
Free Fire, his theaters.
That brings us to right now and to
Free Fire, Wheatley's newest and most accessible
film.
Free Fire (2017): I finally found a Ben Wheatley
film that I liked.
«LFF have been fantastic in supporting the
films I've made (me and an army of hundreds) and I can't wait to show
Free Fire to the festival audience!»
British director Ben Wheatley is too smart to make nice little genre
films — and his scattershot yet monotonous latest,
Free Fire, is worse than that.
His creative derring - do continues with
Free Fire, the director's sixth
film in eight years and one of the most purely entertaining movie of 2017.
His new
film,
Free Fire, is built around a premise that is simultaneously old school and high concept: two groups of criminals in 1970s Boston arrange an arms deal in an old warehouse, things go south, guns are drawn... and they proceed to engage in a gun battle that plays out over the course of the entire movie, mostly in real time.
Free Fire is a simple and precise
film; it does not exist to deliver a message or make a political statement but is here to entertain and delight, something it does with ease.
Expect more gore (but probably no phallic monstrosities) in Wheatley's next
film,
Free Fire, which is due out later this year and is a marker of Wheatley's rise up the Hollywood food chain — Martin Scorsese is exec producing and the impressive cast includes Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy and Sam Riley.
There have been comparisons made between
Free Fire and Tarantino but I would argue that Wheatley and Jump's
film is a purer
film than the likes of Reservoir Dogs.
Her upcoming
films include «Kong: Skull Island» and «
Free Fire.»
Fire Down Below — A weird one, the first half dark romantic comedy, with Robert Mitchum and Jack Lemmon doing a kind of riff on Bogart and Brennan in To Have and Have Not, the second half a disaster
film with a race against time to
free a trapped sailor from a ship that could explode at any moment with Napoleon from King Vidor's War and Peace fretting nervously about the dock.
The same guys who like to high five during girl on girl action in Atomic Blonde, skull smashing in
Free Fire or the fact that cult classic
film The Room gets a big screen treatment by James Franco in The Disaster Artist.
Wright spends almost the entire
film mapping his small English town so that, when the climax turns into a Tony Scott - flavored
free - for - all, not a single bullet is
fired haphazardly, and off - screen space is just as easy to follow as what's in the frame.
Unlike High - Rise which played in last year's Platform section,
Free Fire is back at home as the opening night
film in Midnight Madness.
Screen Rant plays paintball at SXSW with
Free Fire stars Sharlto Copley and Armie Hammer and director Ben Wheatley to discuss the making of the
film.
Final Verdict:
Free Fire isn't just wildly entertaining, but clever to boot, one of the more promising
films of the year.
Free Fire and High - Rise director Ben Wheatley is reportedly working on a «big Marvel
film», but not necessarily an MCU movie.
In some ways, the
film is more arty and western version of Ben Wheatley's
Free Fire.
As with his previous
films, Wheatley presents
Free Fire with a gleefully dark sense of humor, the ridiculousness of events playing out made all the more senseless when you take into account where everyone's mindset is at.
In short, the movie starts with Thor chained up in the lair of a
fire demon named Surtur and ends on Asgard with Thor, his adoptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is more often his enemy than his friend, an Asgardian warrior known as a Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) battling Thor and Loki's recently
freed sister Hela (Cate Blanchett, camping it up deliciously), the Goddess of Death, whose role in Asgard's conquering of the nine other realms has been largely obliterated from the official history (this is the
film's one major socio - cultural theme, and it gets a beautifully realized visualization when Hela causes a seemingly innocuous painted dome to crack open, revealing a portrait of a much darker and more violent history underneath).
Tossed in with excellent editing, wonderful sound and set design, a fantastic score, and some of the best writing we've seen yet from Wheatley and partner in crime and life Amy Jump,
Free Fire is quite possibly the tightest, strongest
film from Wheatley's oeuvre.
A straight shoot - em - up action
film,
Free Fire delivers on its premise, without overcomplicating things.
10 minutes early to the
Free Fire press screening, I grew restless as «Annie's Song» played on a continuous loop in the theater; the gimmick filled up my senses with the quickly confirmed fear that Wheatley's
film would rarely rise above the dopey and obvious.
Free Fire finds Wheatley — who co-wrote and co-edited the
film with his regular collaborator (and spouse) Amy Jump — returning to the 1970s, the same era of his previous feature, last year's botched J.G. Ballard adaptation High - Rise.
It's just under a year ago that we reported
filming had begun for the Ben Wheatley directed and Martin Scorsese produced
Free Fire and...
True,
Free Fire's assault on the senses will annoy some, and it arguably lacks the layers of some of Wheatley's earlier
films.
It's just under a year ago that we reported
filming had begun for the Ben Wheatley directed and Martin Scorsese produced
Free Fire and today we've got the first look at the impressive cast for his next venture.
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Following a tense argument over incorrect weapons and an altercation between Stevo and Harry the
free fire of the title becomes the
film's reality.
For while the vanity -
free Zellweger is genuinely terrific, and the
film certainly delivers a handful of laugh - out - loud moments, it never quite catches comic
fire.
Jack recently wrapped
filming on
Free Fire opposite Cillian Murphy (inset) and is set to start
filming WWII drama HHHH with Rosamund Pike and Jason Clarke in the coming weeks.