Guns Akimbo (2019)

Directed by

Jason Lei Howden

Genre

comedy film, action film, action comedy film

Country

New Zealand, Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 2,594 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A computer programmer who criticizes a deadly underground fight club is forced to become a contestant. He must fight to survive the live-streamed death matches.

fast-pacedover-the-topdarkly comicviolentabsurdchaoticstylishtense

What happens

Guns Akimbo is a 2019 action comedy film written and directed by Jason Lei Howden. It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Ned Dennehy, Grant Bowler, Edwin Wright, and Rhys Darby. In the film, an underground fight club becomes popular due to live-streaming fights to the death. A computer programmer criticizes the spectacle, and he is then forced to become one of its contestants. The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on 28 February 2020 by Saban Films, in New Zealand on 5 March 2020 by Madman Entertainment and in Germany on 25 June 2020 by Leonine Distribution. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing theatres worldwide, the film became available digitally on-demand less than three weeks after it was released theatrically. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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