I've made no secret about my opinions on Samara Weaving, but I was more than willing to give Guns Akimbo a chance anyway. I wouldn't say I regret that decision, but I was underwhelmed. I'm going to use a term here that I have not used unironically in... God, maybe, genuinely, over a decade, because I don't know how else to describe Guns Akimbo: Guns Akimbo is fuckin' tryhard. It's so desperately edgy, in a way that tries to emulate works I do love, but goes too far too clumsily. I didn't hate it, at all, but I was very aware of what this movie was trying to be, where a better film might have kept me to entertained to notice.
Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.