Shoot 'Em Up Reviews

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...

I'll Keep It Short

Quite simply the worst film you will ever see.

SAY CHEESE !

Ive just watched this film with my girl friend at the cinema and its the cheesiest film ive ever seen and ive seen alot.

The only reason we gave it 1 star is because it made both of us laugh at the ridiculous scenes.

I really wanted to see this film because Clive owen has done some good films now, derailed and inside man for e.g.

I felt sorry for Owen as making a film like this is a sure way to f**k his career, lets hope hes back to his best with his next flick.

Watch this if your after a good laugh at some CHEESE! LOL

[Highly rated reviewer]

Killing, chasing (and carrots ???)

A pretty reasonable and pacey hour and a half, but despite a reasonable-ish plot, it unfortunately gets lost in a limbo between intended slapstick and serious gangster flick. The satire and send up of shoot and chase films falls a bit flat, and is never funny or clever enough to be a good spoof, for example after the first few scenes you are pretty fed up of the carrot scenes, though Giamatti and Owen play along nicely together. All in all because I can't make my mind up where it should place itself. and though I did sort of enjoy it through my groans, I could not completely recommend this one, like most of the bullets that get fired here it is worth a miss.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Guns. Lots of Guns.

Logic. Reason. Plot. Physics. This film has a blatant disregard for all of these things in favour of sheer violence and bloodshed - and works all the better for it. It's a video game and a Looney Tunes cartoon rolled into one (carrott-chomping Clive Owen is Bugs Bunny - going so far as to say 'What's up, Doc?' at one point - while Paul Giammti is a loving-every-second Elmer Fudd). Art it ain't. A nonsensical burst of great action scenes it certainly is.

I guess I can understand why people don't like the film - I just don't understand how they could go into it not knowing what to expect. Seriously, criticising it for being daft, cheesy and illogical when it's called 'Shoot 'Em Up' seems to be missing the point. As one reviewer already pointed out - it does exactly what it says on the tin. This isn't Citizen Kane. It's lots of people getting shot in increasingly elaborate ways.

It's a film to watch with a bunch of mates and a bigger bunch of beers - and a tongue firmly planted in your cheek.

Absolutely atrocious

Do NOT waste 80 minutes of your life watching this rubbish.

It doesn't work at any level, I'm afraid.

It does what it says on the tin!

I have just come back from seeing this film at the cinema. Not your typical choice for a girl to go and see you may think, but any Clive Owen film is good enough for me! There are so many dead bodies and so much blood that you really can't take it too seriously. Lots of tongue in cheek black humour with some corny lines, but all in all I would say worth seeing. I especially laughed at the scene where the lead actress is still orgasming while Owen shoots dead another dozen guys! What a scream (literally)!

Outrageous to say the least

OUTRAGEOUS - its the only word i could say when i came out of the cinema.

its hard to say i loved this as its so far fetcheded, so cheesey, and so unbelievable and i can kinda understand how people dont like it (mygirlfriend hated it) - but it does it in such a way that even though its so unbelivable its great!!!!!!

u have to to take it for what it is a film about shooting as many people as possible - and when u do that its such an entertaining, fast paced 80 mins i thought it was thoroughly entertaining and was buzzing when it finished.

there are many films that try to be something else and fail so badly but this film KNOWS exactly what it intends to do and delivers it on a silver plate - u may hate it u may like it but u still have to go to see it to believe the hype about it - ive never seen a film where so many people have their lives ended by a carrott - had me in stitches

Embarrassing

What can I say.....

Action films are at the top of my list but this was the biggest load of pants that I have seen all year.....

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[Highly rated reviewer]

Awful!

The cover describes the film as 'gritty', it was nothing of the sort, unless you count a carrot penetrating the back of the mouth and coming out at the bavk of the skull gritty! I call it dumb! I realised it was going to be bad as soon as the thug chasing the pregnant women utters the first lines of this movie, 'Im gonna kill you b***h cliched or what! What's so interesting about seeing a skilled guman shooting villains that are so relativley, brainless and skilless that it's like Owen is shooting fish in a barrel repeatedly, it's boring! It's the worst film I've seen in a long while, get's my vote as my Turkey of 2008, it's going to take some beating into second place that's for sure!