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Movie Review: Guns Akimbo
A rebellious and garish shootout born out of gamer’s deepest desires
Overview:
Take away his wand. Give him some guns. Make him a nerd. Is it really that straightforward? Nope, I don’t think so . There is so much more going on in Guns Akimbo that it is not just an alternate universe where Harry Potter was born in a modern world and grew up to become a programmer.
After watching eight films in a timespan that stretches over eleven years, it is hard for me to associate Danial Radcliffe with anything other than a boy-wizard, and yet, here he is today, toying with guns in Guns Akimbo. Truth to be told, I was not overly excited to hop into the theaters for Guns Akimbo when I screened the trailers initially. The sight of Radcliffe’s character going Will Farrell, running around in public with his hairy thigh exposed isn’t exactly enticing. The last time I checked my ID, I was not a teenage-girl wizard.
If you are still in the dark, Radcliffe plays Miles Lee Harris, a teenage nerd stuck in a desk job, who hired himself as a part-time keyboard warrior. In his effort to bring justice to the virtual world, his path crosses with SKIZM, a lawless organization hosting live matches between criminals and psychopaths, and see them battling to their deaths. It’s like a popular Youtuber…
