Shoot 'Em Up on DVD (2007)

A customer from Colchester , 08/02/2008

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...

  76 out of 76 people found this review helpful

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A customer from Reading , 17/01/2008

Quite simply the worst film you will ever see.

  54 out of 55 people found this review helpful

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jono1984 from Rugby [Highly rated reviewer] , 18/09/2007

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

  37 out of 38 people found this review helpful

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PaulaWestwood from Ashton-Under-Lyne [Highly rated reviewer] , 15/09/2007

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.

  33 out of 37 people found this review helpful

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A customer from England , 09/04/2008

this movie really had nothing to offer. it was just violence for the sake of it

  1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

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MrEd from London , 21/04/2008

Obviously the brain child of a moron, acted ineptly, and one of the most dispiriting and depressing film experiences ever. Aims to be Hard Boiled but ends up as a soggy mash.

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

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