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 …
~≈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
★★★☆
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