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Apr 21, 2017 · Either way, its temporal distance from "Reservoir Dogs"—a film it brazenly imitates, right down to the warehouse setting and the grandiose use of kitschy pop—makes it noteworthy.
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Apr 2, 2017 · Less an extended riff on the final standoff from Reservoir Dogs than an absurdist expansion of the close-range gunfight from The Naked Gun 2½, Free Fire is a delirious descent into...
Free Fire isn’t a “ Reservoir Dogs for the 2010s” but there are enough similarities in approach, tone, and style to warrant a comparison. The violence, the cavalcade or profanity, the testosterone & adrenaline – they’re all present and accounted for.
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Free Fire review: "the last 90 seconds of Reservoir Dogs stretched out to 90 minutes" Director Ben Wheatley shows us what he can do with a starry cast, a deserted warehouse and a helluva...
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Shot like a part-heist film and part-mockumentary, American Animalsnarrates the real-life attempt of a few college students to steal rare and high-priced manuscripts from their college library. Their attempts to do something new in their life leads to one of the most outrageous art heists in US history. The real-life characters are also interviewed...
City on Fire is a Hong Kong crime thriller from the '80s that served as a direct influence on Reservoir Dogs. Much like the latter, City on Firetoo deals with an undercover cop who joins a group of jewel thieves. When the robbery turns into an unintended massacre, the robbers attempt to unmask the imposter among them. The film is notable for giving...
A genre-defying entry in the heist genre, Widowsnarrates the tale of the titular widows of a few robbers, all of whom die in a firefight. When their leader’s wife (Viola Davis) obtains some clues for her husbands’ next job, she decides to recruit the rest of the wives too to embark on a multi-million heist that also has a political conspiracy invol...
This is a documentary made for the definitive Tarantino cinephile. The film traces the origins of Quentin Tarantino’s amateur yet focused style of writing and directing along with interesting behind-the-scenes stories of his first eight films, with The Hateful Eight being the latest one featured. RELATED: Quentin Tarantino Movies: 10 Best Supportin...
Written and directed by Spike Lee, this bank heist film is a pretty unconventional ‘joint’ for the director’s style. Still, he experiments with the genre in his own accord by crafting a film that relies on some classic heist tropes without being too cliched. Inside Manis bolstered by a talented ensemble comprising of frequent collaborator Denzel Wa...
Guy Ritchie’s crime comedy stars an ensemble of men from different classes who are all brought together in a plot involving a high-priced diamond. The characters with their names and traits add to the bizarre tone of the film, ranging from the bounty hunter Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to Irish traveler and boxer Mickey O'Neil or ‘One Punch’ Mi...
A Boston based remake of the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs, Martin Scorsese’s The Departedis a fast-paced thriller with several unanticipated twists and turns. The film gives viewers an insight into the world of the Irish mobs as one such mob leader (Jack Nicholson) plants a mole (Matt Damon) in the city’s police department. Meanwhile, an und...
In this cult hit that arguably skyrocketed Hong Kong cinema's Heroic Bloodshed subgenre into popularity, director John Woo crafts a saga of poetic violence and betrayal along with a certain philosophy behind all the carnage. Here, Chow Yun-fat stars as a hired assassin who faces a conspiracy against himself, prompting him to join forces with a poli...
A clash of good and evil set during the crack epidemic, New Jack City details the rise of a powerful, megalomaniac drug lord Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), who’s more than eager to hire new members in his crew. One of these new recruits turns out to be Scotty Appleton (Ice-T), an undercover detective who uses his morality to seek revenge from the film...
The Wolfpack covers the life of the Anguilo family that dwells in a suburb of New York and home-schools their children in confinement. With no access to the world outside, the Anguilo brothers and sisters emulate the traits of their favorite movie characters, even designing intricate costumes to go along with the act. Reservoir Dogsis one such film...
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Apr 21, 2017 · Free Fire is a stronger concept than film, hamstrung by poor storytelling and execution, despite the best efforts of the cast. The screenplay, co-written by Wheatley and Amy Jump is arguably the project's greatest weakness, as there's very little to the overall narrative. The main reason why everyone starts firing at each other is an extremely ...
From British director Ben Wheatly comes Free Fire, a movie that mashes up the likes of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino in a movie that offers some excellent dialogue from some of the characters...
