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Guns Akimbo

Play trailer 2:18 Poster for Guns Akimbo R,  2020,  1h 35m,  Action/ Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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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.
Guns Akimbo

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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 Jun 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. Go to Full Review
Barry Hertz Globe and Mail Apr 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. Go to Full Review
Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (LAist) Feb 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. Go to Full Review
David Griffiths Subculture Entertainment Mar 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 Go to Full Review
Manuel São Bento MSB Reviews (Ghost.io) Jul 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. Go to Full Review
Kat Hughes THN Jul 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 Go to Full Review
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Jason Lei Howden

Director

Daniel Radcliffe

Miles

Samara Weaving

Nix

Natasha Liu Bordizzo

Nova

Ned Dennehy

Riktor

Rhys Darby

Homeless Man

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Movie Info

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
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