2025 · action · comedy · crime
Guns Up
Directed by Edward Drake1h 32m2025
When a job goes horribly wrong, an ex-cop and family man who moonlights as a mob henchman has one night to get his family out of the city.
Our read: Guns Up (2025) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- tender
- funny
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