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Shots Fired: A Day of Paintball, Explosions and Unchecked Male Egos With the ‘Free Fire’ Team
Shots Fired: A Day of Paintball, Explosions and Unchecked Male Egos With the ‘Free Fire’ Team
Shots Fired: A Day of Paintball, Explosions and Unchecked Male Egos With the ‘Free Fire’ Team
Sharlto Copley is the kind of guy you want on your side when the shots start flying, though you might not think that’s the case after seeing Free Fire. The first full-fledged American production from UK director Ben Wheatley is a wild warehouse free-for-all featuring an absolute murderer’s row of actors, including Copley, Armie Hammer and Brie Larson (among many others). In a film where every man (and woman) is out for himself, perhaps no one is more self-serving than Copley’s Vernon, a narcissistic gun-pusher who is, for lack of a better adjective, kind of a weenie. But on a stunt ranch just outside Austin during SXSW, Copley was far from cowardly on the frontlines of the paintball battle field.