Guns Akimbo (4½ Stars)

Daniel Radcliffe plays Miles Lee Harris, a computer programmer trapped in a boring job writing code for a computer game about a squirrel that steals money. Wow! And I always thought programming computer games would be fun. In the evening he sits alone playing computer games that really are fun. He comes across Skizm, a game that looks real. He joins the chat and begins to insult the other people he's talking to. He's a troll, in the real sense of the word: a person who makes provocative statements online just to get a reaction.

The Skizm administrator enters the chat and tells Miles he knows his IP address. Later that night people break into his apartment and knock him out. When he finally wakes up he finds that guns have been bolted to his hands. He can't put them down. He's told that he has to prove he's a big man by playing Skizm for a day. He has 24 hours to kill Nix, the game's reigning champion. In parallel, Nix has been told by the game admin that if she kills Miles within 24 hours she can leave the game.

Miles can't dress himself without the use of his hands, so he stumbles into the street wearing his underpants, a bathrobe and a pair of slippers. Nix is already tracking him. He should have left his mobile phone at home. There are drones filming everything Miles and Nix are doing, streaming it live to the Internet. Soon there are millions of people watching. Most are cheering for Nix, as the popular champion, but as Miles manages to survive, more by luck than by skill, his popularity begins to rise.

This is an absolutely ridiculous film. It's difficult to take it seriously at all. Nevertheless, it's packed with so much action that it's more than just a comedy. Once we've suspended disbelief and have accepted the premise of a real life killing game, we're cheering for Miles.

Daniel Radcliffe is a fantastic actor. Whatever he touches turns to gold. How did he get from Harry Potter to here? Did he have innate acting skill that the casting directors recognised before the first film, or was he rigorously trained in between films for 10 years? Either way, he's become an amazing actor, and he has a long, successful career ahead of him.