Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 161
Fresh: 107 | Rotten: 54
As preposterous and over-the-top as Shoot 'Em Up may be, its humor and non-stop action make for a very enjoyable film.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 19
As preposterous and over-the-top as Shoot 'Em Up may be, its humor and non-stop action make for a very enjoyable film.
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Clive Owen stars in this gritty, over the top action thriller as Mr. Smith, a gun-toting badass with a hair trigger and an unknown past. He's far from a doctor and farther from a parent, but when he unwittingly discovers an innocent woman delivering a baby right in the middle of a gunfight, Smith enters the fray to save her and though the woman expires, he is the one left in care of the orphaned child. He thinks that the killers were after the woman, but soon he realizes that they had a far more
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Cast
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Clive Owen
Smith -
Paul Giamatti
Hertz -
Monica Bellucci
Donna Quintan "DQ" -
Stephen McHattie
Hammerson -
Greg Bryk
Lone Man -
Daniel Pilon
Senator Rutledge -
Sidney Mende-Gibson
Baby Oliver -
Lucas Mende-Gibson
Baby Oliver -
Kaylyn Yellowlees
Baby Oliver -
Ramona Pringle
Baby's Mother -
Julian Richings
Hertz's Driver -
tony munch
Man Who Rides Shotgun -
Scott McCord
Killer Shot in Behind -
Wiley M. Pickett
1st Killer -
Stephen R. Hart
Club Bouncer -
David Ury
Diner Holdup Leader -
Mike Rad
Diner Hood With Earring -
Andy Mackenzie
Ugly Toenails Hood -
Laura DeCarteret
Woman in Museum -
Ryan Finn
Kid in Museum -
Marla Vacratsis
Pawnshop Owner -
Suresh John
Motel Manager -
Jay Reso
Senator's Guard -
Jane McLean
Madam Maddle -
Dave Van Zeyl
Diapered Man -
Layton Morrison
Dog Handler -
Jo Anne Leach
Woman in Park -
Frank Tiefenbach
Customer in Alley -
David Collins
Museum Guard -
Steve Richard
Coffee-Sipping Guard -
Harry Karp
Milkshake Slurper -
Dean Copkov
Gunman Stabbed in Eye -
Michael Edward Rose
Hammerson's Security Gu... -
Frank T. Nakashima
Korean Gorcer
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All Critics (163) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (115) | Rotten (55) | DVD (17)
After about an hour, though, it all becomes a mind-numbing barrage.
Top CriticOne can certainly be amused and entertained by writer-director Michael Davis's hyperbolic action frolics -- I was -- but not without feeling pretty low and stupid.
...an affectionate, often very funny Simpsons parody of its whole eponymous genre. It's a live-action McBane as co-directed by Quentin Tarantino and Chuck Jones.... Shoot 'Em Up is Hot Fuzz gone to the Dark Side.
It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning.
The most audacious, implausible, cheerfully offensive, hyperactive action picture I've seen since, oh, Sin City, which in comparison was a chamber drama.
This is seedy, morally defunct, low-IQ cinema for airheads: it's toe-curlingly violent and mostly plain nasty, but quite fun in a debauched kind of way.
Far from being a spoof on the genre, Shoot 'Em Up is an action movie with the flab removed - with no more than maybe ten minutes of exposition, you're left with a series of interconnecting money shots, each one more gooey than the last.
Merrily amoral, shamelessly watchable and outlandishly funny, Shoot 'Em Up is not for all tastes, but those with a dark sense of humor will have a ball.
Over-the-top action with guns, guns, and ... guns.
Say what you will about Bugs Bunny, at least he never needed a backstory.
...it's certainly impossible to deny the effectiveness of the three central performances.
Clive Owen is ideally cast as the likeable loner (with a tragedy in his past, of course) whose self defence and killing efficiency is declared with deadpan delivery.
...painfully uncool one-liners, a flat performance from Clive Owen, a disgusting job by Paul Giamatti and a plot that reveals itself to be idiotic.
Shoot 'em Up dispenses with plot, character development and coherency, but it's a blast all the same.
For pure gonzo gunplay and action movie overkill, this gloriously absurd spectacle is the most fun I've had in ages.
...a little shooting and chasing goes a long way. When it's extended to an hour and a half, it becomes overkill, if you'll pardon the expression.
...essentially just one long chase sequence that becomes much too monotonous much too soon.
a sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-goggling reductio ad absurdum of the action flick to its barest kinetic essentials - like one of those porn compilations of money shots, only in a different genre.
A tongue-in-cheek spoof of the action adventure genre, a stomach-churning free-fall featuring plenty of gratuitous bloodletting with a little primal carnality tossed in for good measure.
Audience Reviews for Shoot 'Em Up
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- Hertz: The leader that stays in the rear, takes it in the rear.
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- Smith: Nothin' like a good hand job.
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- Smith: [eats carrot] What's up dock?
- Hertz: Aww you're a wascally little wabbit.
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- Smith: Fuck you you fucking fuckers!
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- Smith: Eat your vegetables.
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- Hertz: My god! Do we really suck, or is this guy really that good?
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