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Guns Akimbo

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Wed Jul 12, 2023 11:41 pm

Have you watched Guns Akimbo?
What are your thoughts about it?

In an alternative near future, an underground fight club and a criminal organization known as Skizm has achieved massive popularity by live-streaming real death matches between criminals. Ordinary computer programmer Miles Lee Harris logs into Skizm’s forum to insult viewers who turn murder into entertainment. Riktor, the criminal kingpin who runs Skizm, breaks into Miles’ apartment with his henchmen Dane, Effie, and ****. After being beaten and drugged, Miles wakes up to find guns bloodily bolted into both of his hands. Miles learns that he has been forced to participate in Skizm by being pitted against Nix, the game’s deadliest killer. Nix wants out of the games, but Riktor requires she kill Miles first.

Nix tracks Miles’ phone. He tries to reason with Nix, but fails. Miles distracts her and she shoots up his apartment as he falls down the fire escape. After unsuccessfully attempting to recruit help from the police, Miles makes it to the park to meet his artist ex-girlfriend Nova Alexander, who tells Miles that she doesn’t want to get back together. When Miles reveals what is happening to him, Nova flees in fright. Nova reports the situation to Detective Degraves. Degraves has his partner Stanton hack Nova’s phone so they can track Miles. Miles gets temporary help from a vagrant named Glenjamin. Miles then goes to the office where he works so his friend Hadley can hack the Skizm tracking malware on his phone.
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Re: Guns Akimbo

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Post by CaptHayfever » Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:53 am

I haven't seen it, but I'm interested.

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Re: Guns Akimbo

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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:57 am

Sounds boring aside from the live-streaming deathmatches bit, if it focuses on that element it might be a fun watch, those types of movies are usually at least decent.

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Post by Deku Tree » Sat Jul 15, 2023 12:23 pm

I felt like it was a bit worse than the various things of which it reminded me. A lot of good ingredients, but the end result was a bit less fun than it should have been.

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