![]() Copley’s gun seller is entirely too testy and confrontational for this to go easily.Īnd then there are the hotheads, druggies and aggrieved subordinates to worry about.Ĭo-writer/director Ben Wheatley stages the shootout as if everybody has an endless supply of ammo in their purse or leisure suit jacket. Murphy’s IRA gun buyer isn’t so into the deal that he can’t flirt with the one “bird” in their midst. Larson, whose acting in this is entirely too casual for somebody who should be afraid for her life and aware of the carnage assorted pistols and assault rifles can carve out, may just “want everyone to go home happy with this deal.” But no one does. And in this case, it’s a big thing and it’s a big coincidence. ![]() “Bet you thought you were too handsome to get shot!”īecause yeah, you stick a bunch of armed, paranoid, drug-addled or just gun-nut-dumb crooks into an enclosed space with a lot of ricochet-prone surfaces, any little thing can set it off. One zinger, after the shooting gets started, stings. “You smell good,” a hoodlum hurls his way. The sellers are led by Vernon (Copley), and include Babou Ceesay (“Eye in the Sky”) and Noah Taylor (“Rush”).Įverybody’s glib and flippantly insulting, especially the dapper, preppy Ord (Hammer). The set-up - IRA types ( Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley) employ local talent and a couple of go-betweens (Hammer and Larson) to make a buy of American semi-automatic weapons. And no amount of ammo or firepower changes that. Maybe people have stayed away because the cast, which includes Oscar winner Brie Larson, “Man from U.N.C.L.E.” hero Armie Hammer and “District Nine” South African Sharlto Copley, doesn’t have one box office name in it.īut when you’re looking at a dozen or so IRA gun buyers and assorted gun dealers, trapped in a shootout in an abandoned, concrete-walled factory in 1970s Boston, the message in the mayhem is more pointed than perhaps the film’s potential fans realize.Ī hail of bullets reduces us all to an earlier place in our evolution - crawling, bleeding and wounded, struggling to survive but counting the minutes until we bleed out. ![]() The audience rejection of “Free Fire,” the gonzo guns-and gunplay action comedy from the director of “High Rise,” may represent some tipping point moment for Americans’ attitudes about gun violence and its cavalier treatment on the big screen. ![]()
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