“Free Fire” is one such film daring to blast anything and everything with ammunition encased with twisted zeal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2024

When the smoke clears, Free Fire is an intriguing visual Senior thesis.

| Aug 22, 2023

Cartoonish and pulpy in the best ways, Free Fire is neither original nor an instant classic, but it's made with skill and talented performers to support the simplicity of the basic scenario.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2022

Super fun and emotionally desperate in equal measure - it's an action movie with life and blood pumping through it, in it, and out of it too.

| Jan 14, 2022

Awful. What was apparently meant to be an exercise in style instead becomes an endurance test for audiences.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 3, 2021

It's just an entertaining piece of pulp.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 10, 2021

Free Fire keeps your head on a swivel and it's a fast paced blast.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 15, 2021

To save the dialogue from itself is one very amusing performance by the not-so-chameleonic Sharlto Copley.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 5, 2020

Ben Wheatley's plucky black comedy about an arms deal gone awry just might be the most gonzo crime movie set in Boston - and it wasn't even shot here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 23, 2020

There's enough here to justify a watch on streaming services when that becomes an option, but this is the kind of film where you only need to half pay attention to get a full experience.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Free Fire was an enjoyable - although problematic - romp between characters I would never want to meet.

| Original Score: B | Jul 13, 2020

Stripped down action to its core, "Free Fire" is a wild momentary ride, but ultimately forgettable.

| Original Score: B | Jul 1, 2020

Free Fire is a brilliantly executed, pitch black comedy.

| Jun 30, 2020

Wheatley just wants you to sit back, perhaps plug your ears, and enjoy 90 minutes of lunatic behavior, punctuated by a great deal of dark humor and a sharp-as-glass ending.

| May 6, 2020

Wheatley is no idiot, but Free Fire is a tale all about sound and fury, signifying nothing.

| Feb 19, 2020

Free Fire is just a minor detour for a filmmaker who can be more than another Tarantino clone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Free Fire effectively has the banter, fun factor, cast and style, but its lack of story makes it difficult to be taken seriously as a thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2019

It's perhaps the only interesting oddity about Free Fire, this unresolved struggle between deathly serious gritty visuals and winking juvenilia. Everything else is competent, diverting enough, but pretty forgettable.

| Sep 27, 2019

Free Fire has a great cast of bad shots in a movie that hits the mark.

| Sep 9, 2019

Although it has an undoubted factor of wild amusement, it never reaches the level of its potential. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 14, 2019