Perhaps the strangest part about the film is that you get no context for this meeting between two gun gangs at all. I've been critical of Hammer in the past for just feeling too generic in certain roles (see: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.), but he certainly doesn't fall victim of that here. To me, the standouts are Copley and Hammer. No performance here is going to win any Oscars, but they all know exactly the type of movie they are in, and act accordingly. The one thing you can count on is everyone giving a great performance. Everyone comes in with their own agendas and rarely does a character fully commit to the side he or she is on. Starring, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, and Jack Reynor (among many others), this is as about as modernized Reservoir Dogs as you can get. Balancing all of those things is a tough task, luckily Free Fire as a whole has more shots connected than the characters themselves do. But it's also full of charisma, wit, and some dang good action.
Free fire is undeniably chaotic, bloated with violence, and entirely irreverent. Not sure why I decided on those two films, but sometimes it's nice to enjoy a nice 90-minute action comedy. Not every film has to be the next Titanic or Gone with the Wind.
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