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Shoot Em Up
A lonely stranger called Mr. Smith delivers a baby during a shootout and is entrusted with protecting the child from criminals out to kill it.
30 September 1964, Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
8 September 1955, Hampstead, London, England, UK
1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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.
May 01, 2008
Say what you will about Bugs Bunny, at least he never needed a backstory.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
November 03, 2007
It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning.
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.
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.
January 03, 2008
After about an hour, though, it all becomes a mind-numbing barrage.
March 25, 2008
...it's certainly impossible to deny the effectiveness of the three central performances.
