Clive Owen, Greg Bryk, Jane McLean
A gritty, fast-paced action thriller, "Shoot 'Em Up" kicks into high gear with a memorable opening scene and never relents. Clive Owen stars as Mr. Smith, a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlik...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 1, 2008
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May 8, 2009"You know what I hate?"
Starting with a repeating line from the movie, but do you know what I don't hate? Movies like 'Shoot 'Em Up'. I like action movies like any other guy, but you have to admit that the genre has not brought anything new in years. Of course there are these in...( read more) -
April 6, 2009I expected crap and was surprised haha its as stupid as hell but the action is truely great, best for awhile. Some of the sequences are really dumb..jumping outta the plane, jumping into a car from great height and throwing the baby around like a toy spring to mind, but the gun b...( read more)
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March 19, 2009Every action movie after this will feel incomplete if the hero doesn't eat a carrot after killing everyone.
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February 1, 2009Mr. Hertz: My god. Do we really suck or is this guy really that good?
A ridiculous action movie with Clive Owen continuing to kick ass as a gun toting loner.
Mr. Hertz: Guns don't kill people! But they sure help.
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November 17, 2009Intentionally mindless. Michael Davis is aware we sometimes need a guilty pleasure, but what made this film bad was its pretentious cast and action sequences that leave the audience urging for more. Fun, but Clive Owen was a terrible choice.
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November 14, 2009Mnogo akcije, pucnjave i nevjerojatnih bizarnih scena. Zabavan film pun dosjetki koje se kasnije mogu citirati. Ne mogu primjetiti Monicinu presmijesnu glumu u ovome filmu (imala sam dojam kao da gledam neku losu sapunicu), a ono iritantno grickanje mrkve cu zaboraviti, bas kao i...( read more)
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November 10, 2009Absolutely fantastic, if you're looking for something that lives up to its title.. but it does little more than that.. If you want to see a shoot 'em up flick with dumbass one liners and cliche' over the top and impossible kills.
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Critic Reviews
September 15, 2007
Roger Ebert, Denver Post
September 14, 2007
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times
The film is so fast it is over almost before it begins and so empty-headed it demands little but your inertia. On the way there are moments of weird charm, conjured by the movie's velocity. full review
September 7, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
The sum of the movie's exploding parts adds up to nothing -- not even just good, sick fun. full review
September 7, 2007
Claudia Puig, USA Today
For mainstream audiences, its whiplash pacing, frenetic camera work and offhand manner toward blood spillage probably will be disturbing. full review
September 7, 2007
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Like Quentin Tarantino without the aesthetic posturing, the film is giddy with pop references -- and embraces the sloshy fun of exploitation genre-tweaking... full review
September 7, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Shoot 'em Up will become, I suspect, some kind of legend in the murky depths of extreme action. full review
September 7, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
Loaded for fun, a trigger-happy full-frontal assualt on our senses that really seems to be winking at a whole macho-movie genre. full review
September 7, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Shoot 'Em Up is a witless, soulless, heartless movie that mistakes noise for bravura and tastelessness for wit.
September 6, 2007
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Deliriously tasteless and shamelessly entertaining, Shoot 'Em Up is the guiltiest pleasure of the year. full review
September 5, 2007
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
This wet dream for action junkies leaves out logic and motivation -- you know, all the boring stuff. full review
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June 16, 2008WTF !!!!! worstest of the worst movie. A Romanian or a Kazak action or superhero flick would have been better. Was the director on crack or coke ( i would not know ). The carrot thing was just 2 annoying & Monica Belucchi was pissing off. The whole plot & the conspiracy was totally amateaure ( gun laws, bone marrow surgery, killing the senator ).The worst was when the baby is quiet when listening to metal cauzz metal is in his genes and how the baby smiles when clive owen is showing him the gun.
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February 28, 2008The most cartoon-y action film I've seen- it's (quite intentionally) like a Bugs Bunny 'toon turned into an action flick. It's NOT meant to be taken seriously (unlike a few similar movies that are just as ridiculous, but fall flat for being too stiff), which I suspect is half the reason so many people seem to dislike it so much. As much a joke about the genre as it is an entry into it, I'd say this is only for those with a sense of humor and a love for gleefully exaggerated humor.
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January 15, 2008thank U flbeachboy, Clive is a great actor, something Craig have missing, and he gives 007 a gay look nothing against it but that do not fit in the 007 movies. i thought this movie was crap but actually i got to like it.
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January 8, 2008Clive Owen could pull it off as 007, he has the attitude to him that Daniel Craig lacks.
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January 2, 2008Seeing so many people hate on this movie makes me feel smart. I didn't think that the transgression here was very subtle but for those of you who somehow missed it watch it again and stop trying so hard to be offended and don't hold your breath waiting for this movie to give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
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