Shoot 'Em Up Details

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...

[Highly rated reviewer]

Ridiculously enjoyable

This is probably the most over-the-top, ridiculous film I have seen in a long, long time. But it is also the most fun. Take it at face value, and it's an enjoyable 85 minutes of cheesy one-liners, stupidly high body count, silly stunts and gratuitous violence. It was never going to win any Oscars, but if you just want to sit back and not think for just over an hour, it's well worth a rent.