Free Fire
Easter Monday Film4 9.00pm - 10.50pm
thriller⊲ Director Ben Wheatley comes out all guns blazing for this darkly comic, ferociously bonkers action thriller about an arms deal that goes appallingly wrong. The setting is a deserted warehouse in 1970s Boston. IRA men Cillian Murphy and Michael Smiley are here to buy a stash of guns from South African gunrunner Sharlto Copley via local intermediaries Armie Hammer and Brie Larson. But the transaction erupts into violent mayhem and soon bullets are flying every which way. The characters tend to the cartoonish and strip away the sound and the fury and this is very much a B-movie. But it’s an incredibly stylish, smart and wildly entertaining one.
Dir: Ben Wheatley 2016, 15, 110min