Everybody Is Shooting Everybody Else In The Trailer For Ben Wheatley's Gun-Slinging Madcap Crime Comedy 'Free Fire'

" Everyone’s got a gun, and absolutely no one is in control."

Nothing is as entertaining as watching a movie where two gangs go bloody bonkers in a deserted warehouse over a weapons deal gone south. Plus, it's in the late 70s and its produced by Martin Scorsese. This is enough to pike a simple man's interest.

Ben Wheatley's previous preposterous movie, High-rise was a tediously executed silver screen delivery of JG Ballard's unfilmable visionary novel. I'll always remember him as the director of Kill List. My first impression of the trailer was about something David Letterman said to Joe Pesci which by the way is one helluva of an interview. He said, 'Jack Nicholson, Joe Pesci and Dennis Hopper playing golf! That's like maniacs loose at the country club!'. Nothing as eloquent as this statement can explain the red band trailer which you're about to watch.

Free Fire is a goofy ride in a 70s era Boston starring Brie Larson as Justine, an American businesswoman, Armie Hammer as her sarcastic associate Ord, Cilian Murphy as Chris, an IRA army buyer and Sharlto Copley as Vernon, a typical 'South African' gunrunner. An arms exchange in a world where everyone sports dense facial hair never ends well. So, as suggested, all hell breaks loose and bullets start shattering collar bones, shoulders, knee caps. It's absolutely brings together all the elements of the movie Smokin' Aces.

Ben Wheatley told the Guardian in an interview, “I wanted to make an action movie that was more on a human scale. I watch a lot of movies and I’m increasingly finding that things I should be amazed about, like buildings blowing up and stuff, just don’t have much impact. And then I began reading about what an actual gunfight is like from police transcripts and reports, and how crazy it is. How no one can hit anything. You see these reports that say that American cops fired 200 bullets… and they all missed! Because if anything is even slightly moving, you can’t hit it. And you can’t just hit something miles away with a .38 Special – it’s all bullshit. And in the story the gun deal goes wrong and they all start blazing away at each other, and then they’re all on the ground. And the rest of the film is: what do they do next?”

The director returns to crime thriller with this movie but the treatment is unlike his other visceral crime movies. Free Fire will be an absurdist & slapstick edition of Reservoir Dogs. Cinema-goers can expect a spectacular explosive show on March 2017. I'm hoping for Sharlto Copley's character to make abundant use of this dark comedy situation.