Free Fire

In a deserted warehouse outside Boston in 1978, two groups meet to complete an illegal arms deal. One side is made up of Irishmen, including Chris and Frank, who are looking to buy; the other consists of intermediaries and shady dealers, among them Justine, Ord and Vernon, who have arranged the sale. The negotiations are tense from the start, and after a misunderstanding nobody is willing to back down. A shot is fired, and the meeting turns into a running gun battle in which everyone is out for themselves and the stock of weapons becomes the means of survival.

Ben Wheatley directed and co-wrote the film with Amy Jump; Andrew Starke produced it. Free Fire sits between High-Rise and Rebecca in Wheatley's filmography, which by this point also included Down Terrace, Kill List, Sightseers, The ABCs of Death and, later, In the Earth, Meg 2: The Trench, Bulk and Normal. Cillian Murphy plays Chris, Brie Larson plays Justine, Armie Hammer plays Ord, and Sharlto Copley plays Vernon, with Jack Reynor as Harry and Sam Riley as Stevo among the cast.

Made on a budget of 7 million US dollars, the film took around 4 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 from more than 53,000 votes, and on TMDB it stands at 6.2 from over 1,200 votes. A critics' rating of 6.4 from 236 reviews places it slightly above both audience scores.