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Free Fire (2016)

Free Fire poster
Directed by
Ben Wheatley
Genre
comedy film, action film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
R
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 1,233 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two groups meet in a warehouse for an arms deal that quickly goes wrong. A shootout erupts and the survivors try to get away from each other and the building.

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What happens

Free Fire is a 2016 British action comedy film directed by Ben Wheatley, from a screenplay by Wheatley and Amy Jump. It stars Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Babou Ceesay, Enzo Cilenti, Sam Riley, Michael Smiley and Noah Taylor. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2016, and also served as the closer of the 2016 BFI London Film Festival on 16 October. The film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2017, by StudioCanal UK, and in the United States on 21 April 2017, by A24. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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