Free Fire
Opens April 21 in theaters nationwide.
Its hard to take any of it seriously.
Which is what makes it work as well as it does.
Credit: A24; Warner Bros.; Open Road Films
(Hammers and Copleys hilarious performances dont hurt either.)
Just imagine what an Itchy and Scratchy short directed by Sam Peckinpah would look like.
ThatsFree Fire.B+
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Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic: 84
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), and an explosive hail-Mary finale so sublimely ridiculous it defies both good sense and gravity.
(It helps, perhaps, that several main players have no hair to singe.)
Consider the whole quotemarky Its just a joke!
tone of online discourse, the rise of smirking insincerity as a political mode and an intellectual dialectic.
Like so much about Condons film, the new songs are perfectly fine, but theyre just not transporting.
More than movies or theme parks, Disney has always been in the business of selling magic.
Absurdity isnt always the mark of simplicity, however.
Its more about the bedrock friendship between three lonely old men.
Its a character movie, not an action movie.
And were always laughing with the characters, not at them and how old they are.
In the new version, Joe, Willie, and Albert watchThe Bacheloretteand get really invested the outcome.
They smoke pot with a gangster and get the munchies.
They attempt a practice heist on a supermarket and get away on a motorized old-folks scooter.
Ann-Margret even pops up as a horny, hot-to-trot grandma to lob lusty innuendos at Arkin.
I kept waiting for someone to make a joke about the size of his prostate.
Thankfully, it never came.C
Rotten Tomatoes: 46%
