Singapore, March 19 -- The comedic bullet bonanza that is Guns Akimbo (M18, 97 minutes, opens today, 3.5 Stars ) checks all the boxes for a film festival midnight madness movie.
Its writer-director is obviously a fan of B-grade action cinema: It boasts a ridiculous premise, but also asks viewers to play along or miss the adrenaline rush.
It mostly succeeds because New Zealand writer-director Jason Lei Howden knows his stuff, with gunplay scenes that recall Hong Kong classics (Hard Boiled, 1992), livened up with headshots and blood spatter of disposable 1970s American and Australian cinema, the ones with the word "game" or "death" in the title.
Miles (Daniel Radcliffe) is a nerdy games designer who is bullied by everyone he knows.
He...