It stars Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Grant Bowler, Edwin Wright, Rhys Darby, Milo Cawthorne, Richard Knowles, and Mark Rowley.
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.
Ordinary computer programmer Miles Lee Harris logs into Skizm's forum to insult viewers who turn murder into entertainment.
Riktor, the criminal kingpin who runs Skizm, breaks into Miles' apartment with his henchmen Dane, Effie and Fuckface.
Miles finally gets assertive by angrily pulling his guns after his continually condescending boss Zander insults him.
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.
In her rage and desire for revenge, Nix agrees to a plan where they successfully stage a scene for Skizm's broadcast camera drones.
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.
After Riktor dies, Miles starts to collapse from massive blood loss while imagining a romantic reunion with Nova.
With Skizm spreading worldwide under new leaderships, Miles commits himself to do everything in his power to destroy the entire criminal organisation.
On 12 May 2017, it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe would be starring in Guns Akimbo by New Zealand director Jason Lei Howden, whose previous projects include the film Deathgasm.
The site's critical consensus reads, "Frenetic to a fault, Guns Akimbo may leave some viewers reaching for the killswitch – but for others, its videogame-style violence will have plenty of replay value.
[21] John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "The ingredients for an engagingly ridiculous action pic are here, but the pacing's all wrong.
"[22] Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote: "This undeniably slick, energetic contraption plays somewhere between grating and numbing.