6.7 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Miles is a video game developer who inadvertently becomes the next participant in a real-life death match that streams online. While Miles soon excels at running away from everything, that won't help him outlast Nix, a killer at the top of her game.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Grant BowlerComedy | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English SDH, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
For perfectly understandable reasons, and for better or worse, you may always and forever associate Daniel Radcliffe with the Harry Potter: Complete 8-Film Collection, though Radcliffe has not exactly been shy about trying to at least partially erase the indelible memory of the famed wizard from his audience’s mind with a rather staggeringly diverse array of roles he's portrayed both during the production of and then subsequent to the Harry Potter films. Among Radcliffe’s interesting list of credits are stage appearances in both Equus and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, but it’s really some of his choices for film roles where Radcliffe’s ambitions to be “more” than simply Harry Potter might be more evident. Included in Radcliffe’s sometimes rather outré post-Harry Potter filmography are such often odd films as (in no particular order) The Woman in Black, Horns , Victor Frankenstein, Kill Your Darlings, What If, Swiss Army Man, Jungle and Beast of Burden. Guns Akimbo probably qualifies as one of the weirder entries in Radcliffe’s cinematic CV, and my hunch is it’s going to be one of those films that people are either going to love or hate, based on certain tolerance factors they may have.
Guns Akimbo is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Lionsgate Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.39:1. The IMDb lists RED cameras and a 4K DI in their datapoints for the film. Whatever you may feel about the film itself, the film is often a stylistic tour de force, with director Jason Lei Howden and director of photography Stefan Ciupek indulging in all sorts of tricky camera moves that keep the framings in this film consistently off kilter. Through the many twirling, whirling, slightly askew moments, detail levels remain surprisingly strong, and some effects, like the horrifying way Miles' hands are attached to the guns, will probably provoke squirms in more squeamish viewers. The film doesn't necessarily rely on intense gradings for mood, but there are some evocative sequences that look like they've been lit in deep blues and purples, and even those choices don't significantly deplete fine detail levels. There's quite a bit of "meta" data here, in terms of supposed drone coverage of events as well as the online component that sees viewers' comments flit by.
Guns Akimbo features a rather aggressive DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track that gets a lot of energy from the chase aspect of the film, as well as a couple of set pieces, including the big opening sequence that introduces Nix and just how single minded she can be in attempting to take her enemies out. The film utilizes well placed ambient environmental effects throughout several outdoor scenes. Dialogue is rendered cleanly and clearly throughout this problem free track.
Howden is a stylist, to be sure, but this film, despite having a lot of noise and fury, is still kind of curiously listless. Radcliffe is fun, but this is probably more of a showcase for Weaving, who is kind of lovable in a completely gonzo way. This was a near miss for me, but others may be able to overlook some of its perceived shortcomings more easily than I was. Technical merits are solid for those considering a purchase.
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