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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.
20 March 1980, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
13 July 1962, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
27 October 1944
1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
4 December 1965, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
February 3, 1947 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
27 July 1978, Bangkok, Thailand
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 25, 2008
...it's certainly impossible to deny the effectiveness of the three central performances.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 03, 2008
After about an hour, though, it all becomes a mind-numbing barrage.
November 03, 2007
It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning.