A Gleefully Grisly 85-Minute Gunfight: 'Free Fire'
This "agreeably amoral comic thriller" about a weapons deal gone wrong might be, according to critic Chris Klimek, "the most realistic movie gun battle ever."
The cinema began as a medium of pure titillation, so it's unlikely Ben Wheatley's agreeably amoral comic thriller is the movies' first-ever feature-length gunfight. I sure can't think of another one, though. An account of a weapons deal up north that quickly goes south, the movie's taut 85 minutes unfold in something close to real time in a dingy and begat a wave of violent, formally ambitious indie comedies about loquacious killers and thieves.
