movie review - Guns Akimbo
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Kokubunji, 2022.06.29
The premise of this movie is that a wastrel winds up with guns surgically grafted to his hands. Can he fix this somehow? Why has he been thrust into a sanctioned murder tournament? Can he save his girlfriend, who is being held by the Big Bad? Is this world populated entirely by assholes? All these questions and more befront our hero.
It's a bonkers concept and mayhem in execution. But it's secret is that it's well shot, well paced, and without any of the usual pit-falls into which such a thing might fall. Yes, there are plenty of one-dimensional assholes to populate the landscape and yes it all feels a bit like a video game .. but how could it not?
Recommended. There, I said it.