Guns Akimbo (2019)

6.3R95 min

2019 film by Jason Lei Howden

Guns Akimbo is a 2019 action comedy film written and directed by Jason Lei Howden. It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Grant Bowler, Edwin Wright, Rhys Darby, Milo Cawthorne, Richard Knowles, and Mark Rowley. 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.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Guns Akimbo about?
Guns Akimbo (2019) — Miles is stuck in a dead-end programming job. Still in love with his ex-girlfriend Nova, he spends his waking hours between pining for her and scouring the internet as a social-justice troll, cowardly leaving anonymous insults to those who post objectionable content online. Meanw
Is Guns Akimbo based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Guns Akimbo scary?
Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.