![]() ![]() You want to pitch a film ? Then please don't use the initials QT !!!! SUGGESTIVE SPOILERS !!!! Secondly there's very little story at all. In fact even Tarantino parodies Quentin Tarantino these days with very mediocre results. England ) and classed as a blackly comical thriller in the style of Tarantino you'd have thought it might have done better at the box office but fails slightly on two levels Firstly Tarantino is a brand name and unless your name is Quentin Tarantino it's a mistake with hindsight to emulate this style of film making because you're just going to slip in to parody. Set in America ( Though amazingly it's shot in Brighton. With FREE FIRE you might have thought he'd hit the international target. In 1970s Boston a contingent of IRA men schedule a meeting with arms sellers in a derelict factory only to become embroiled in an argument that finishes in a shoot-out One constantly thinks that director Ben Wheatley is on the brink of great things. ![]() This way it's just watching and wondering who's going down next and what the hell is even happening. Free Fire has potential, but it needs some better way to wrap things up, and better way to keep the audience invested in the characters. Also the structure makes the movie feel way longer than it is. It's hard to keep track of, especially when most of the characters look the same and the names are thrown in there so casually you barely remember three of them. There's so much potential that seems to be wasted since it comes to the weird part where the film is mostly shooting and throwing in bits of great dialogue every here and there. The set-up is good, but the story isn't close to as great as it could be. The entirety reminds me of Reservoir Dogs, but like a weird, simpler version missing the charm Tarantino put in his work - apart from the dialogue of course. It desperately needs something more story driven there. Mostly because after that, most of the movie seemed more like just shooting without any kind of actual point to it. The beginning may feel a bit stretched out, but when s#t hit the fan, I almost started to miss that slow, dialogue-heavy beginning of the movie. If you're an aspiring screenwriter it might make you think oh right, that's how you're supposed to do it. Music is amazing and it gets you excited about the movie, and the dialogue works amazingly well.
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