Review by John Adams

It's not that Guns is lacking in good ideas. It's got a bunch of them, any two of which might have made a pretty good start to a funny film. For instance there is the idea that this is a documentary gone bad about a film gone bad. And here I give a shout-out to Keith Scales (who does a plausible Richard Attenborough) as the frustrated documentarian Nigel Nado. Then there's the idea of the director being a sociopathic con artist. Yes, you are saying, but what makes that different from any other film... and that's my point. Or there's the sudden death of the entire cast from bad pasta salad. Now death by pasta salad has to be funny any way you look at it and here in Guns it does get dangerously close to funny.

More nuance and less wackiness might have saved Guns

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