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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
If John Woo had directed a Bugs Bunny cartoon written by the creators of South Park, the result might be something like Shoot `Em Up, but with a crucial difference: Bugs Bunny cartoons were always less than 10 minutes long.
Top CriticJaw-dropping only hints at the reaction to the intricately staged fights, especially a shootout between Smith and a dozen or so villains as they step out of a jet and plummet toward Earth sans parachutes.
Even more distressing is the presence of Owen and Paul Giamatti. I understand the concept of working as much as possible while you're hot, but it's a slippery slope.
Top CriticThat Giamatti appears in Shoot 'Em Up is bad enough, but he's not even good in it, chewing the scenery in service of mostly unfunny lines.
A former storyboard artist, Davis orchestrates the film's nearly wall-to-wall action sequences with breakneck precision and exhilarating verve -- the more outrageous the mayhem, the better.
You know Quentin Tarantino is probably over the hill when he can be so parodied with such deadly precision in Shoot 'Em Up.
Top CriticThis is likely the fastest-moving intentionally funny action movie ever made.
Top CriticAs for a plot, the film is too busy piling up dead bodies to have much of one. And, with dialogue consisting almost entirely of movie poster tag lines, Shoot 'Em Up shoots blanks.
There are only so many ways to shoot people, and the movie gets repetitive in its gleeful nihilism and downright boring when the gunfire stops and characters start trying to explain what little plot exists.
Over-the-top doesn't begin to describe Shoot 'Em Up's set-pieces, most of which are undeniably entertaining.
Shoot ’Em Up is like a manual of creative mayhem, a distillation of Sergio Leone Western and John Woo Hong Kong gun-gasm.
The actors, unquestionably and predictably, are leagues better than the material deserves.
Like Quentin Tarantino without the aesthetic posturing, the film is giddy with pop references -- and embraces the sloshy fun of exploitation genre-tweaking...
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.
It's inevitable that a movie this trigger-happy shoots itself in the foot.
Bang. Bang. Bang-bang blood, blood, blood. There, you've seen the movie.
The ultimate target audience will undoubtedly have the added benefit of libations.
Top CriticShoot 'em Up will become, I suspect, some kind of legend in the murky depths of extreme action.
Top CriticBang! An instant cult hit...
It's a cocktail made up of three parts testosterone to one part brains.
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