{"id":14689,"date":"2021-12-08T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2021-12-07T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T17:00:50","slug":"free-fire-2016-ben-wheatley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14689","title":{"rendered":"Free Fire (2016, Ben Wheatley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve watched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14628\">In The Earth<\/a><\/em>, why not catch up with the last Wheatley feature I&#8217;m keen to watch.  Warehouse deal of cash for rifles goes wrong when the hired help have history and start attacking each other.  They&#8217;re uncontrollable, and violence escalates, and soon everyone&#8217;s been shot in the shoulder, then in the leg, and they spend the second half crawling around after each other.  There&#8217;s a little bit of who&#8217;s-double-crossing-who and who&#8217;s-got-the-money and can-they-escape but mostly we&#8217;ve got an hourlong gunfight, which is something a director with real visual\/editing flair could have a field day with.  Wheatley isn&#8217;t that director, so I&#8217;m not clear why he&#8217;d make an all-action movie, but spatial sense is pretty good and the performances kept me awake.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copley, shortly before getting set on fire:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/freefire2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Arms dealers are <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3019\">District 9<\/a><\/em> star Sharlto Copley in a blue suit, capable guy (a bad shot) Armie Hammer, tough ex-panther Babou Ceesay, temperamental flunky Jack Reynor.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Buyers:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/freefire1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Smiley and Cillian Murphy are buying, with Brie Larson, druggie fuckup Sam Riley.  Also each group has another flunky whose name I didn&#8217;t catch, and three new guys appear but don&#8217;t live long enough to matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ve watched In The Earth, why not catch up with the last Wheatley feature I&#8217;m keen to watch. Warehouse deal of cash for rifles goes wrong when the hired help have history and start attacking each other. They&#8217;re uncontrollable, and violence escalates, and soon everyone&#8217;s been shot in the shoulder, then in the leg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1495,2036],"class_list":["post-14689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-ben-wheatley","tag-brie-larson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14697,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions\/14697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}