Quarantine Watch #123: Guns Akimbo (2020)

This is a wild ride. It’s like if you took the craziest/best parts of CRANK, GAMER, UPGRADE, and DREDD and shoved it up your nose as you did cocaine. It’s really nice to see how Daniel Radcliffe knows how to make fun of himself (whether it’s in this or SWISS ARMY MAN or HORNS or MIRACLE WORKERS). He used to be the lead of an eight action film series. Instead of only sticking to leads that make him look good, he continually plays a wimp and he’s so good at it. He’s seriously becoming a really great comedic actor. Samara Weaving is also one of my favorite actresses’ of the modern era. I used to call her a bobo-Margot Robbie, but she has succeed Robbie in my book as an actress. Also you can just tell she’s a nerd for these hyper-violent unique action films when you look at past roles she’s taken (READY OR NOT and MAYHEM for example). She is so good in here. The camera work does such a good job of putting you in characters’ POVs while not being a first person film. The way it roles and moves is haphazard, erratic, off balance, and cocaine addled. Rhys Darby's speech about doing what it takes to survive is one of the most brilliant philosophical speeches I've seen in a film lately.

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