The best guilty pleasure of the summer... arriving just a couple of weeks too late.
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09/06/07
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
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Reviews Counted:157
Fresh:105
Rotten:52
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: As preposterous and over-the-top as Shoot 'Em Up may be, its humor and non-stop action make for a very enjoyable film.
Theatrical Release:14-09-2007
Synopsis: For an action film, boasting a body count higher than its IQ isn't always a bad thing. In director and screenwriter Michael Davis's stylish SHOOT ‘EM UP, inventive set pieces, and tongue-in-cheek... [More]
Starring: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Belluci, Stephen McHattie
Director: Michael Davis
Reviews for Shoot 'Em Up
ludicrous, ridiculous, campy and wildly over the top, which is just the way it should be.
09/06/07
Shoot 'Em Up is simply wild fun and nothing more, though suspiciously intent on blowing away the whole kick butt genre with a wink, while taking down as many bad guys as possible in sight.
09/06/07
Simultaneously declares its love for over-the-top action movies and demonstrates how ridiculous they are.
09/06/07
Deliriously tasteless and shamelessly entertaining, Shoot 'Em Up is the guiltiest pleasure of the year.
09/06/07
In the end, you care about the characters on screen as much as you do for those in video games, which is not at all.
09/06/07
With its absurd anti-gun "message," the film certainly could be called a satire, yet it remains firmly within the genre it is satirizing.
09/06/07
Ridiculously violent, comically bloody and so over-the-top that one can only view it as a cartoon that just so happens to be live-action. As for the says-it-all title, it is truth in advertising taken to the extreme.
09/06/07
For sheer audacity and adrenaline-fueled carnage, Shoot 'Em Up hits its target pretty much dead on.
09/06/07
I get it that as soon as graphic novels or video games are invoked as references in a movie, we're all supposed to chuckle indulgently at the content. But I refuse to relinquish my right to be repelled by this nasty piece of work.
09/06/07
For those who can stand the nonstop assault on their sensibilities, it's delightfully trashy, albeit irresponsible.
09/06/07
There is not yet an expression to describe how over-the-top this hyperkinetic action comedy is, from its John Woo/Rube Goldberg inspired set pieces to its painful self-awareness of its own darned cleverness.
09/06/07
Really, this thing is pretty rank.
09/06/07
The most amoral action film since Crank.
09/06/07
Everything about this neo-noir version of an Itchy & Scratchy marathon is casually ludicrous, right down to its back-handed advocacy of - wait for it - gun control.
09/06/07
Seems in pursuit of being the ultimate 'guy movie,' but fans of this sort of glamorized killing spree aren't the kind of guy that most guys want to be.
09/06/07
It’s hard to get too worked up about a film whose very title announces its maker’s intent.
09/06/07
A vulgar, smug and willfully stupid movie that's both a lazy pseudo-parody of action films and a particularly egregious example of the genre itself.
09/06/07
Not one second of the film is anything other than ludicrous, which is exactly why it rocks.
09/06/07
Simultaneously a spoof, throwback, and tribute to the ballets of violence that precede it, Shoot 'Em Up is the guilty pleasure of the year.
09/06/07
Latest News for Shoot 'Em Up
September 08, 2008:
Shoot 'Em Up, Bollywood Style 
American audiences may have slept on "Shoot 'Em Up," but its charms were apparently not lost on the makers of what appears to be a Bollywood remake of the Clive Owen-led action... More...
October 14, 2007:
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