The best guilty pleasure of the summer... arriving just a couple of weeks too late.
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09/06/07
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
ludicrous, ridiculous, campy and wildly over the top, which is just the way it should be.
09/06/07
Shoot 'Em Up is simply wild fun and nothing more, though suspiciously intent on blowing away the whole kick butt genre with a wink, while taking down as many bad guys as possible in sight.
09/06/07
Simultaneously declares its love for over-the-top action movies and demonstrates how ridiculous they are.
09/06/07
Deliriously tasteless and shamelessly entertaining, Shoot 'Em Up is the guiltiest pleasure of the year.
09/06/07
In the end, you care about the characters on screen as much as you do for those in video games, which is not at all.
09/06/07
With its absurd anti-gun "message," the film certainly could be called a satire, yet it remains firmly within the genre it is satirizing.
09/06/07
Top CriticRidiculously violent, comically bloody and so over-the-top that one can only view it as a cartoon that just so happens to be live-action. As for the says-it-all title, it is truth in advertising taken to the extreme.
09/06/07
For sheer audacity and adrenaline-fueled carnage, Shoot 'Em Up hits its target pretty much dead on.
09/06/07
I get it that as soon as graphic novels or video games are invoked as references in a movie, we're all supposed to chuckle indulgently at the content. But I refuse to relinquish my right to be repelled by this nasty piece of work.
09/06/07
For those who can stand the nonstop assault on their sensibilities, it's delightfully trashy, albeit irresponsible.
09/06/07
There is not yet an expression to describe how over-the-top this hyperkinetic action comedy is, from its John Woo/Rube Goldberg inspired set pieces to its painful self-awareness of its own darned cleverness.
09/06/07
Really, this thing is pretty rank.
09/06/07
Top CriticThe most amoral action film since Crank.
09/06/07
Everything about this neo-noir version of an Itchy & Scratchy marathon is casually ludicrous, right down to its back-handed advocacy of - wait for it - gun control.
09/06/07
Top CriticSeems in pursuit of being the ultimate 'guy movie,' but fans of this sort of glamorized killing spree aren't the kind of guy that most guys want to be.
09/06/07
It’s hard to get too worked up about a film whose very title announces its maker’s intent.
09/06/07
A vulgar, smug and willfully stupid movie that's both a lazy pseudo-parody of action films and a particularly egregious example of the genre itself.
09/06/07
Not one second of the film is anything other than ludicrous, which is exactly why it rocks.
09/06/07
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
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