To approximate the experience, simply record a minute-long TV ad, watch it 86 times, and imagine the profanity, scatology and gore that broadcast censors had to cut out of it.
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09/07/07
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
Though it has no real characters and a completely nonsensical plot, it is a welcome respite from other uber-violent movies like 300 that are itself parodies and don't even realize it.
09/07/07
If you’re a fan of Looney Tunes live action, it doesn’t get much better than Clive Owen juiced up on beta-carotene.
09/07/07
it's really nothing more than Charlie's Angels 2 all over again... with Clive Owen and a fetish prostitute instead of three young, hot chicks.
09/07/07
The method to the madness behind Shoot 'Em Up is etched in stone from a surreal popcorn perspective drenched in cynicism and silliness.
09/07/07
...clunky dialogue, a patchwork plot and a poor turn from sexpot Bellucci take the air out of this exercise. A couple of cheesy set pieces may be amusing, but on the whole Shoot 'Em Up is a bore.
09/07/07
A tasteless cartoon that uses the high-minded ideals of satire and social commentary to cloak the fact that it is shamelessly pandering to the most base, juvenile parts of our nature.
09/07/07
The movie I've been waiting for my whole life. Michael Davis is my soul mate.
09/07/07
Loaded for fun, a trigger-happy full-frontal assualt on our senses that really seems to be winking at a whole macho-movie genre.
09/07/07
A fun, if messy, compilation of the most absurd action scenes ever put on celluloid.
09/07/07
Shoot 'Em Up is a witless, soulless, heartless movie that mistakes noise for bravura and tastelessness for wit.
09/07/07
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09/07/07
There is no wisdom or critical acumen in evidence in Shoot 'Em Up, however. Just 100 or so cool scenes masquerading as a movie.
09/07/07
Top CriticYou might be able to say you had a good time watching it -- but felt dirty about it afterwards.
09/06/07
If there's a Hell, an honest-to-God place of eternal torment, Shoot 'Em Up would make the ideal introductory video, promising a lifetime of anguish to come.
09/06/07
Writer-director Michael Davis has stripped the action movie down to its essence in a mind-blowing mash-up fueled with testosterone, adrenaline, and weapons-grade explosives.
09/06/07
Badass, unabashedly malicious fun.
09/06/07
by far the greatest video game masquerading as a movie ever.
09/06/07
[A] gloriously deranged orgy of Bugs Bunny-style action and nonstop gunplay...
09/06/07
a giddy, deranged, pumped-up theme park ride in Bullet Land
09/06/07
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