Free Fire: That’ll Do … !

17th August, 2017

Oh, now: that’s annoying!

One of my neighbours likes a joint or two.

Which I don’t usually complain too much about: as she seems to have stopped using, over the past few months.

But, on Tuesday, and tonight?   When I had my windows open, to catch some air?

In came the familiar and unwelcome smell of cannabis.

Not something I want, when I’m watching a movie, I know that.

The upside to tonight’s situation?

Was that …

• I could at least send an email to my housing officer …
• The movie I saw, the Ben Wheatley directed Free Fire, was entertaining … !

~≈fi≈~

Set in a rough part of Boston, Free Fire sees Justine — Bree Larson — broker a meeting between shady Irish gangsters, Chris and Frank — Cillian Murphy and Michael Smiley — and arms dealers, Vernon and Ord: Sharlto Copley and Armie Hammer.

Things are fraught: when Chris and Frank find out the guns they were expecting are a whole other brand.

Not only that … ?

But various junior members of Chris and Vernon’s teams are armed, dangerous … 

And have had BIG reasons to start shooting, the first chance they get.

Pear … ?   Is certain what things are starting to look like … 

~≈fi≈~

Now … good … ?

I don’t know for certain.

I DO know that Ben Wheatley’s come up with another corker of a movie: nearer Kill List, than A Field in England, in tone: and certainly an improvement on Wheatley’s own Sightseers.

And a hell of and improvement on the other movie I’ve seen, this week: Ghost in the Shell.

I don’t think Free Fire’s Wheatley’s best work.

But?

The film is his take on the Pulp Fiction/Snatch school of bleakly funny gangster movie: and a much welcome entry to the sub-genre.

As such?

Free Fire is worth sitting down with.

Free Fire
★★★☆