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Shoot 'Em Up
2007
Shoot 'Em Up is a gritty, fast paced action thriller starring Clive Owen as Mr. Smith; a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally (Monica Bellucci) in order to protect a newborn baby from a determined hitman (Paul Giamatti) who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city. Read more
| Starring | Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Greg Bryk |
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| Director | Michael Davis |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Shoot 'Em Up
Shoot 'Em Up is a gritty, fast paced action thriller starring Clive Owen as Mr. Smith; a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally (Monica Bellucci) in order to protect a newborn baby from a determined hitman (Paul Giamatti) who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city.
| Starring | Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Greg Bryk, Stephen McHattie, Ramona Pringle |
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| Director | Michael Davis |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 23 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Jan 2008 Blu-ray: 02 Nov 2009 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
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Michael Davis audacious John Woo-style actioner opens with Clive Owen sitting on a bench munching a carrot as a... read more on Time Out
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104 out of 107 people found this review helpful
What?!
Maybe I was just in the wrong mood when I watched this, but 'Shoot 'em up' has got my nod for the worst film of 2007. I probably wouldn't be so harsh if I had watched it on tv in the wee hours and it had starred 'actors' like Steven Siegal or Jean Claude Van etcccccc.... but the very fact that it features quality, top of their game thesps like Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti makes it a crying shame of a film. You could imagine it being a good fun action packed one-liner'thon but it is directed so badly with seemingly so little talent that it comes across as a massive missed opportunity. Every time a character muttered a witty retort (generally after an elaborately thought up but badly executed stunt), the line would just hang there as forced and embarrassing. I believe that the exact same script directed by someone like John Woo or Edgar Wright would have been able to make the action flow a lot better without making it look like kids playing guns in the playground. Please avoid. Monica Bellucci is still easy on the eye though...
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Insulting, irritating, embarrassing and life-sapping.
How the hell did Davis get this tripe funded or the actors to sign up? Insulting, irritating and embarrassing. The dialogue is cheesy-embarrassing not cliched-cool like the noir-ish OTT irony and charm of Sin City. It is just plain stupid (not stupid fun but infantile stupid). I like a bit of John Woo or Tarantino but this really is a just a really bad wannabe and candidate for worst film of the year. Even the action sequences are limp, implausible and dumb (you're better off rewatching the Bourne Supremacy or 300). See the red reviews on Metacritic for details.
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