Brit writer/director Michael Davis deserves top marks for his sharp shooting.
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09/14/07
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
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Reviews Counted:157
Fresh:105
Rotten:52
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: As preposterous and over-the-top as Shoot 'Em Up may be, its humor and non-stop action make for a very enjoyable film.
Theatrical Release:Sep 7, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $12,730,449
Synopsis: For an action film, boasting a body count higher than its IQ isn't always a bad thing. In director and screenwriter Michael Davis's stylish SHOOT ‘EM UP, inventive set pieces, and tongue-in-cheek... [More]
Starring: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Belluci, Stephen McHattie
Director: Michael Davis
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Reviews for Shoot 'Em Up
A smattering of great one-liners and a sense of its own ridiculousness make this the movie of the week by a mile.
09/14/07
While it's easy to curse Hollywood after watching this film with grumbling words like 'ridiculous,' 'oh, come on!' and 'utterly unrealistic,' remember: director Michael Davis clearly wasn't trying to be realistic.
09/21/07
Like Quentin Tarantino without the aesthetic posturing, the film is giddy with pop references -- and embraces the sloshy fun of exploitation genre-tweaking...
09/07/07
a high-impact, adrenaline pumping, laugh-out-loud film that is so preposterously over the top that it is almost poetry
09/06/07
For all its absurdity, the action is good enough to keep adrenaline junkies juiced ...
09/12/07
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.
01/09/08
Davis rigs his action scenes like intricate and deliciously clever Rube Goldberg devices that are a delight to see play out.
09/07/07
Simultaneously a spoof, throwback, and tribute to the ballets of violence that precede it, Shoot 'Em Up is the guilty pleasure of the year.
09/06/07
(Y)ou gotta love the primal potency of Shoot 'Em Up. It's been a long time since any movie has made such a strong connection to our cave dweller cravings.
09/08/07
Fully dedicated to finding newer and more creative ways to annihilate countless bad guys, Michael Davis' ultimate guy movie isn't just testosterone-heavy, it's doused with it, sprayed with diesel, and set ablaze.
09/07/07
a giddy, deranged, pumped-up theme park ride in Bullet Land
09/06/07
Simultaneously declares its love for over-the-top action movies and demonstrates how ridiculous they are.
09/06/07
Shoot 'em Up dispenses with plot, character development and coherency, but it's a blast all the same.
02/04/08
This swift, rank, enjoyably dark movie presses against so many limits, it achieves the threshold of a new limit.
09/11/07
The inspired action sequences are brilliantly staged and imaginatively shot, and at 86 minutes it doesn't outstay its welcome.
09/14/07
It’s hard to get too worked up about a film whose very title announces its maker’s intent.
09/06/07
Never once does it take itself seriously, nor does it attempt to convince you that this cartoon world populated by unstoppable gunmen, FBI-profilers-turned-hitmen and lactating hookers should be taken seriously, either.
09/06/07
"Shoot 'Em Up" belongs to the "Transporter"/"Smokin' Aces" school of modern western grindhouse cinema.
09/13/07
Deliriously tasteless and shamelessly entertaining, Shoot 'Em Up is the guiltiest pleasure of the year.
09/06/07
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