Guns Akimbo

R

Released Feb 28, 2020

1 hr. 35 min.

Action

Comedy

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71 Reviews

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Miles is a video game developer who inadvertently becomes the next participant in a real-life death match that streams online. While Miles soon excels at running away from everything, that won't help him outlast Nix, a killer at the top of her game.

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Critics Consensus

Frenetic to a fault, Guns Akimbo may leave some viewers reaching for the killswitch -- but for others, its videogame-style violence will have plenty of replay value.

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Juan G

It was exactly what I expected with a splash of cliche predictability and your ensemble of good and bad guys realizing they ultimately lose

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/20/20

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Audience Member

Harry Potter in a violent comedy? You betcha! Yet another graphic-novel-turned-movie, this film feels like Harley Quinn meets The Running Man. The story of a nerd-turned-gladiator features lots of shaky close-ups and is violent, hectic, and just hilarious. So much blood and so much laughter at the same time...who knew that's even possible?

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Sam S

Atrocious. Ill never forgive Daniel Radcliffe.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/03/20

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donnie m

HORRIBLE acting....that's all!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/30/24

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Mark B

The set up is quick. It has some humor and a lot of violence. It is not good not bad and would not run out and tell someone to watch it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/18/24

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KB B

It was ok but got kind of long. I'd never want to watch it again.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/10/24

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Jason Lei Howden

Director

Daniel Radcliffe

Miles

Samara Weaving

Nix

Natasha Liu Bordizzo

Nova

Ned Dennehy

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Rhys Darby

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Chris Stuckmann

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Daniel Radcliffe is very good in this movie, but the film starts to lose steam once you realize that it doesn't really have much else to offer beyond these high-energy action sequences.

Rated: B-

Jun 17, 2020

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Barry Hertz

Globe and Mail

Howden's film gives itself a good three minutes to play the amateur satirist before it abandons any pretense of cultural commentary and instead embraces every cliché it repeatedly insists it is undermining.

Rated: 1/4

Apr 30, 2020

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

I don't get what's going on here. Are we trolling these internet guys are not? Are we saying this is okay or not? Because he wins when he does what they do.

Feb 29, 2020

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Manuel São Bento

MSB Reviews

Jason Lei Howden doesn’t hold back on the brutal, violent, bloody, extremely over-the-top action, and as long as the viewer is able to accept this purposefully unrealistic depiction of a real-life videogame death match, it’s a blast of pure entertainment.

Rated: B

Jul 24, 2023

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Kat Hughes

THN

Borrowing heavily from the many others, Guns Akimbo is a super-charged, hyper frenetic joy ride back to the days of violent action science-fiction

Rated: 3/5

Jul 23, 2021

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Matt Glasby

Radio Times

[B]y mimicking the breathless tempo of a video game, Howden falls prey to video-game problems: the violence is unreal and weightless; the up-to-the-minute visuals seem immediately dated...

Rated: 2/5

Jun 17, 2021

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Synopsis

Miles is a video game developer who inadvertently becomes the next participant in a real-life death match that streams online. While Miles soon excels at running away from everything, that won't help him outlast Nix, a killer at the top of her game.

Director: Jason Lei Howden
Executive Producer: Joe Simpson, Bastien Sirodot, Jay Taylor
Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: Occupant Entertainment, Altitude Film Entertainment, Maze Pictures, Ingenious Media
Rating: R (Drug Use|Brief Graphic Nudity|Pervasive Language|Sexual References|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 28, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 28, 2020

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