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Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]
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Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 12/31/2007
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Every action movie has a moment so over the top you have to laugh; Shoot 'Em Up consists of nothing but these moments. A carrot-eating, lone wolf kind of guy named Smith (Clive Owen, Children of Men, Inside Man) steps in to protect a pregnant woman from a gunman--and finds himself, with the aid of a lactating prostitute (Monica Belluci, The Matrix Revisited), defending the newborn child from a sleazy contract killer Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti, American Splendor, Sideways) and his army of thugs. That's pretty much the plot, but story is beside the point. Writer/director Michael Davis (Monster Man) has a keen sense of what matters in an action movie. The rapid-fire editing is scrupulously coherent; you always grasp what happened in every shoot-out, even if it flagrantly violates the laws of physics or basic plausibility. Explaining how Smith survives a four-story fall--even if that explanation is beyond ridiculous--demonstrates both a sense of wit and a winking respect for the audience's imagination. As a result, Shoot 'Em Up is ten times more entertaining than the likes of Transformers or Rush Hour 3, movies so self-satisfied with special effects or movie stars that they forgot to be fun. (Shoot 'Em Up's only weakness is a sliver of misogyny, the one action movie cliche that it's not clever enough to transcend.) --Bret Fetzer
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Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]
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User Comments About Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]
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is one who has been weaned. trashiest human beings. in a forum such as this. by this film. of our "heroes". Good luck with that. be offended and disgusted. to illustrate my point,.
and watch this film. That's the good news. the exploits of two of the. on a steady diet of pornography. of a baby in danger to justify.
to ignore the negatives. There is no reason good enough. "Oscar" now has to live with his.
The only person who will NOT. Rather than a life-affirming. Trust me. of an innocent newborn baby,. foster parents. The baby survived attack after.
plot about the heroic defense. but the examples are too. I have ever encountered as. the existance of and interest in. offensive for print. attack due to the assistance.
it is the shameless exploitation. of the more perverse variety. I would give some examples. The villian is equally disgusting. "heroes" in a film. The bad news is that little baby.
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A fun ride in the style of Peckinpah and John Woo. The smell of burning gunpowder and bullets flying. A lot of dark humor also.
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THIS movie is Ridiculous!
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The plot makes no sense and the blood and gore is overdone. I watched this movie the other day with my friends and it feels like some very bad video game where one guy is invincible. It is basically about some British Agent that kills around 500 people by the end of the movie mainly by a Magnum. Too much sexual stuff; definitely not for under 17. Don't waste your time.
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This film is just filled with some unbelievable action by all of the actors. My family really, really liked this film.
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A love-hate movie that I loved
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An overly convoluted plot that makes no sense at all. About every 5 minutes. "Shoot 'Em Up" is a straight-faced over-the-top parody of the action movie genre. Check. Profoundly silly one-liners after shooting a guy. Yep. And stunts that would kill a regular human being 10 times over, from which the hero walks away.
I think that's why this movie is so polarizing - whether you like this kind of thing is a matter of taste. Where most action movies present these elements and expect us to swallow them, "Shoot 'Em Up" goes so far over the top that it flings those elements, and others, right in the audience's face as part of its bone-dry parody. It's at least worth a rent, particularly if you have Blu-Ray - the Blu-Ray transfer is fantastic. Check. For example, whether you find a pro-gun-control gunfighting hero to be head-scratching or funny as heck will depend completely on your sense of humor. Got it. At 90 minutes, this film is just long enough.
The ability of the hero to run away from 10 guys shooting at him a close range. The pace has to keep moving so you don't stop and think about the details too much, and it certainly did. No backstory about our cookie-cutter characters. The irony is that "Shoot 'Em Up," even as a parody of the genre, is a superior example of the genre. For this film to work, Owen and Giamatti had to own their characters completely, as ridiculous as they were, and they definitely did so.
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