Free Fire
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After delivering one of 2016’s
most disappointing releases -
his adaptation of JG Ballard’s
High-Rise - director Ben Wheat-
ley makes a quick return with an
equally ambitious project. But
while Free Fire is an improvement
on his treatment of Ballard, it’s
yet another case of Wheatley bit-
ing off more than he can chew.
NJ STAGE 2017 - Vol. 4 No. 4
by Eric Hillis
They say tragedy plus time
equals comedy, and so we’re
now at a point where IRA gun-
men can act as the protagonists
of a knockabout British action-
farce (it’s impossible to imag-
ine this premise with Islamist
terrorists substituted for their
Irish equivalents). Set in the late
‘70s, Free Fire sees a pair of IRA
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