Gun Akimbo Film Review - The Satire Comedy Behind The Brutal Action

Daniel Radcliffe dalam Gun Akimbo (Facebook/Offial Fanpage Gun Akimbo)

JAKARTA - Daniel Radcliffe returns with his latest film, Gun Akimbo. It's always interesting to see his appearance in every film outside of the magical world of Harry Potter. Gun Akimbo is a brutal film. Not only bloody, but also contains a strong satirical comedy.

About Daniel. Every film after Harry Potter is some kind of challenge. Before Gun Akimbo, Daniel made it through The Women In Black (2012), Swiss Army Man (2016), and Jungle (2017). In Gun Akimbo, Daniel played a young man named Miles.

Miles is a serious typical that has a flavor of comedy in him. A flickering satirical comedy. In this film, Daniel competes acting with the main star Ready or Not (2019), Samara Weaving (Nix).

The combination of the two becomes the main ingredient of a one and a half hour long film to entertain anyone who is watching to see first hand the acts of brutality and satirical comedy on offer.

Not just brutal

“You sit with your computer, love pictures of babies smiling, share inspirational quotes. But, what you really want to see is death. You click on the headlines of horror, violence, destruction, terrorism, war. Because it makes your bad little life look less messy. You want to go viral? Schizm is a virus. "

The opening above made people watching Gun Akimbo speculate about the story idea of this film. Satires related to the current generation who cannot stay away from gadgets, spread negative comments, to have high guts in cyberspace, are the precursors of the film and all the satire. Everything is written in the figure of a Miles.

Miles is described as a young programmer who has a shitty life. Starting from a breakup, a job that is not very attractive, not to mention a fierce boss. As an escape, he took advantage of the momentum of surfing in cyberspace while drinking alcohol as an option.

Uniquely, Miles was so immersed in these activities that there was a moment where Miles found a channel called Skizm which carried out live broadcasts related to the brutal action of fighting randomly selected city criminals.

It was so late, Miles was then carried away by an atmosphere that made him shower the comments column with provocative, dirty words. Those words turned out to attract attention from Schizm's side.

But because Miles was too excited, the warning from the Schizm side was ignored. As a result, Schizm's party then came to Miles' residence. They kidnap him, and make Miles one of the fighters who are ready to fight the defending champion Nix.

During the kidnapping, Miles' fingers were drilled with two handguns containing one hundred bullets --50 in the right hand and 50 in the left. Equivalent to that, Miles was given the task of killing Nix within 24 hours. Worse yet, he couldn't run away, or didn't do his job, because the answer from the Schizm side was clear, namely Dead.

Therein lies the initial door of one brutal scene after another. In fact, the comedy element has been seen since the beginning when Miles tried to escape from the onslaught of Nix. The incident was so funny because at that time Miles, who only had shorts and two pistols, carried around in the middle of the city.

How could the fate of Miles, who had never been killed, overcome the challenge from Schizm? Obviously, that's what those who watched the film, which was shown earlier at the Toronto International Film Festival in September last year, had been waiting for.

Overall, this film is quite interesting. Only in the construction of the storyline it seems that it is not well conveyed. The dialogue that is built is sometimes a little overwhelming. Even so, Gun Akimbo managed to make the entire cinema laugh. Or it could be, that is the ingredient of the film's owner Jason Lei Howden in packaging this film.

In addition, the storyline is not well conveyed, then it becomes forgiven by actions with brutal narratives. Both in terms of fighting scenes, shooting, up to one on one. Everything is action packed in an intense and interesting way.

Therefore, it is natural that this film is rated for adults, aka an R rating, because the mixed scenes contain many elements of violence. For those of you who want to watch it in your favorite cinema. Just watch the trailer first to warm up the atmosphere.