the leading man is my tpye

Very well executed

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Easily one of the worst films I've ever seen. An international arms deal set up in a rat infested disused warehouse, with a group of people who seem to have little or no connections at all, except those that are vaguely hinted at. The accents I'm afraid were shocking, even Sharlto Copley's and he actually is South African! Whatever the rifles were they certainly weren't AR-14's, more like modern Ruger Mini-14's. And where to start on the hour long shoot out, the seemingly endless supply of ammunition each shooter was able to find, the multitude of hits each person took with no one actually dying till near the end. By my reasoning there were at least four trained marksmen in the building yet not one could hit a barn door at six paces. An utterly preposterous movie and a waste of 91 minutes of my life which sadly I can't get back.

It is the 1970s, and a small group of Irish republicans is in the USA arranging to buy automatic rifles from a South African supplier via a broker of illicit arms deals. No-one trusts anyone. As if that wasn't enough of a problem, it turns out that one of the Irishmen has an unhelpful drug habit. This fellow also fell foul of one of the American crew the previous evening. Oh, and there are a couple of snipers in the warehouse where the deal is taking place....Director and co-writer Ben Wheatley is flavour of the month in some quarters, despite having directed only a handful of cinema movies. Well, I saw A Field In England and High Rise, and I thought both were pretentious rubbish.But I'll cut him a break, because Free Fire definitely has something going for it. It's a really simple concept - an arms deal goes wrong, gunfire erupts, and there is an extended jockeying for position in a closed-in location (a derelict warehouse), with gunfire, over the next hour or so. What makes this film something to register on the radar is the way that hour is managed, and the dialogue within it. The set-up has established every character, so we understand personalities and motivations before all Hell breaks loose. I won't say that we care, because these are not nice people, but we are invested enough to want to see what happens to each of them, and who (if anyone) manages to escape alive.There is a good cast, headed by Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy and Sharlto Copley, all of whom give us nuanced characters. Copley, as is his tendency, goes wildly over the top but, then, that's how his character is written.And, importantly, notwithstanding the tension and death and destruction, there is a strong strand of dark humour running through this. I'm not saying you'll laugh out loud but, if you're anything like me, the script will please you.

Various people arrive in a deserted warehouse to do an illegal gun deal. Shots are fired. This is essentially an extended shoot them up action play in a single room. The problem starts with a lack character exposition. This is important because it's hard to tell who is on which side. Once the shooting starts, it's hard to tell the geography or the teams. It's a lot of shots in the legs. It would be compelling if I cared about any of the characters. It may be more compelling to do this rooting for one side. I don't even care if either side wins, loses, or dies. That's a hard way to watch a shoot them up.

Brilliant casting for a wild, violent but hilarious movie.It like a Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie mash up. I love how the characters come together and how the tension builds up to the crazy free for all.Absolutely love Sharlto Copley and Armie Hammer characters here. Funny and witty. So well delivered.