Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Free Fire

A gun deal gone wrong. In an out of the way warehouse, a gun dealer is making a sale when, due to a series of character idiosyncrasies, the deal falls apart and both buyer and seller need to extricate themselves from the sale... via gun battle of course. So effectively, this is the warehouse version of Everly, but without the unknown motivation. Here everything is out in the open, and the gun battle takes the entire film. Character depth (such as it is) needs to be developed between bullets. An interesting challenge, I am sure, as a filmmaker, and therefore I would say this is definitely an "art film", in the grindhouse tradition. I kept with it, wondering where it would go. Alas... nowhere...
2 stars

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