![]() A badly injured Nix sacrifices herself by detonating a suicide vest that blows up Fuckface and the rest of Riktor's men so Miles can survive. Nix joins Miles as they take down Riktor's henchmen, including Dane and Effie. Henchmen recover Miles' body and transport him to Riktor's Skizm hideout. She seemingly guns down Miles, who is actually wearing a bulletproof vest that he removed from Degraves. In her rage and desire for revenge, Nix agrees to a plan where they successfully stage a scene for Skizm's broadcast camera drones. Miles manages to secretly meet with Nix and tells her that Riktor murdered her father and kidnapped his ex-girlfriend. Riktor taunts Miles by dumping Hadley’s dead body before driving away. Miles arrives at Nova’s supposed location to find Riktor waiting. While coercing a gaming café patron into hacking Nova’s phone to retrieve her location, Miles learns the Skizm communities dubbed him ‘Guns Akimbo’ as he has become the most popular player ever. Miles recovers his phone from Degraves’ body. Stanton plays a video message in which Riktor explains that Miles has thirty minutes to kill Nix or else he will kill Nova. Stanton shoots Degraves in the head, revealing that he is a mole working for Riktor. Degraves had managed to save Nix, but his wife and son had died. Nix was driven criminally insane after Riktor took revenge on Degraves for taking down Riktor’s gang by blowing up his family’s van. Degraves reveals that Nix is his daughter. While transporting him, Degraves and Stanton explain their plan to use Miles as bait to lure Nix, who they have been trying to capture for years. Miles accidentally makes his first kill, a gang lord who hunted him down. Nix shows up and starts gunning down thugs while trying to get to Miles. He then inadvertently interrupts a drug deal between two rival gangs. Miles phones the police and leaves his phone in a junkyard to provide the location. Following a face-off where he again fails to reason with Nix, Miles calls Nova but sees Riktor kidnapping her. ![]() Miles escapes in a stolen car and Nix chases him on a motorbike. Zander is shot in the head by Nix, who starts shooting up the office. Miles finally gets assertive by angrily pulling his guns after his continually condescending boss Zander insults him. Miles then goes to the office where he works so his friend Hadley can hack the Skizm tracking malware on his phone. Miles gets temporary help from a vagrant named Glenjamin. Degraves has his partner Stanton hack Nova’s phone so they can track Miles. ![]() Nova reports the situation to Detective Degraves. When Miles reveals what is happening to him, Nova flees in fright. After unsuccessfully attempting to recruit help from the police, Miles makes it to the park to meet his artist ex-girlfriend Nova Alexander, who tells Miles that she doesn’t want to get back together. ![]() Miles distracts her and she shoots up his apartment as he falls down the fire escape. Nix wants out of the games, but Riktor requires she kill Miles first. Miles learns that he has been forced to participate in Skizm by being pitted against Nix, the game’s deadliest killer. After being beaten and drugged, Miles wakes up to find guns bloodily bolted into both of his hands. Riktor, the criminal kingpin who runs Skizm, breaks into Miles’ apartment with his henchmen Dane, Effie, and Fuckface. Ordinary computer programmer Miles Lee Harris logs into Skizm’s forum to insult viewers who turn murder into entertainment. In an alternative near future, an underground fight club and a criminal organization known as Skizm has achieved massive popularity by live-streaming real death matches between criminals. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing theatres worldwide, the film became available digitally on-demand less than three weeks after it was released theatrically. The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in New Zealand on 5 March 2020 by Madman Entertainment. It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Grant Bowler, Edwin Wright, Rhys Darby, Milo Cawthorne, Richard Knowles, and Mark Rowley. Guns Akimbo is a 2019 action comedy film written and directed by Jason Lei Howden. ![]()
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