Guns Akimbo: A senseless and convoluted mess
Right from the get-go this movie turns heads. Not just with regard to its quirky title but also with the motif and the cast, needless to mention. What blew my mind away was the Uber cool departure of Daniel Radcliffe from the Harry Potter claim to fame and typecast persona. Yes we get it. Harry Potter did indeed make all of our childhoods but you seem to forget the fact that he is a 31 year old grown adult now. He is at complete liberty to choose any role he wants, desperate to rid himself from the shackles of hackneyed characters. Now getting down to brass tacks. Guns Akimbo was a refreshing, new yet a disappointing take on cyber cries and cyber bullying. The story encapsulates the journey of a loser in the real world named Miles who is unhappy and dissatisfied with his video game designing job and "flips through the same three apps of his phone". He is a keyboard warrior used to hurl abuses and profanities at people. This is also ironically during the wake of the steady g