Shoot Em Up
It is the story of that man who faces a difficult course in his life. He is a single stranger named Mr. Smith delivering a child during an exchange of fire. It may be quite unexpected, especially when he is entrusted with protecting the child from criminals to kill him.
4 December 1965, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
11 June 1973, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30 November 1973, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
20 March 1980, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11 March 1958, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
March 03, 2008
...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.
September 15, 2007
The most audacious, implausible, cheerfully offensive, hyperactive action picture I've seen since, oh, Sin City, which in comparison was a chamber drama.
January 03, 2008
After about an hour, though, it all becomes a mind-numbing barrage.
July 23, 2008
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.
January 02, 2008
...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.
May 01, 2008
Say what you will about Bugs Bunny, at least he never needed a backstory.
September 14, 2007
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.
March 25, 2008
...it's certainly impossible to deny the effectiveness of the three central performances.
November 03, 2007
It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning.
March 23, 2008
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.
November 03, 2012
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.
January 03, 2008
One 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.
