Guns Akimbo

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Guns Akimbo

R

2020

1h 35m

Action

Comedy

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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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Chris Stuckmann

ChrisStuckmann.com

06/17/2020

B-

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.

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Barry Hertz

Globe and Mail

04/30/2020

1/4

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.

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Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

02/29/2020

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.

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David Griffiths

Subculture Entertainment

03/10/2025

4/5

If you like your action flicks a little left of centre and bordering on the gruesome then Guns Akimbo is the film for you. The fresh creative nature of the film shows why Jason Lei Howden is a director who can potentially breathe creativity into the genre

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Manuel São Bento

MSB Reviews (Ghost.io)

07/24/2023

B

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.

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Kat Hughes

THN

07/23/2021

3/5

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

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Juan G

03/20/2020

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

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03/13/2020

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?

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Sam S

03/03/2020

Atrocious. Ill never forgive Daniel Radcliffe.

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Chris H

@BeardedRonin 3d

Guns bolted to your hands are protected under the 2nd amendment.

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Antony B

@RT29664284 6d

The genius of the movie is that it never apologizes for its own insanity. Every scene doubles down on the last one until the entire film becomes a glorious sprint through a carnival built by internet trolls with unlimited funding. It's loud, ridiculous, hyperviolent, and somehow weirdly charming. Beneath all the flying bullets, exploding cars, and delightfully unhinged mayhem lurks a sharp satire about online celebrity, anonymous cruelty, and our endless appetite for watching strangers self-destruct from the safety of a screen. The movie hides its observations beneath mountains of chaos, trusting you'll notice them while you're laughing.

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Jordan P

@Jordanflickmaster Jul 6

For someone like Nix that's supposedly the best contestant in skism deathmatch, she sure is an absolute terrible shot. You can only go so far with the cat and mouse game until you realize the cat is a laughably lousy hunter.

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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
Producer: Tom Hern, Felipe Marino, Joe Neurauter
Screenwriter: Jason Lei Howden
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: Maze Pictures, Occupant Entertainment, Ingenious Media, Altitude Film Entertainment
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
Runtime: 1h 35m