By the final reel, Shoot 'Em Up's fuse manages to peter out without ever really igniting.
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05/25/08
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 156
Fresh: 104
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:Sep 7, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $12,730,449
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
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Reviews for Shoot 'Em Up
Say what you will about Bugs Bunny, at least he never needed a backstory.
05/01/08
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04/18/08
...it's certainly impossible to deny the effectiveness of the three central performances.
03/25/08
Clive Owen is ideally cast as the likeable loner (with a tragedy in his past, of course) whose self defence and killing efficiency is declared with deadpan delivery.
03/23/08
With nary a nod to plausibility Michael Davis has crafted one of the more entertaining action films to come along in recent years.
03/17/08
...painfully uncool one-liners, a flat performance from Clive Owen, a disgusting job by Paul Giamatti and a plot that reveals itself to be idiotic.
03/03/08
Shoot 'em Up dispenses with plot, character development and coherency, but it's a blast all the same.
02/04/08
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01/18/08
...essentially just one long chase sequence that becomes much too monotonous much too soon.
01/09/08
a sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-goggling reductio ad absurdum of the action flick to its barest kinetic essentials - like one of those porn compilations of money shots, only in a different genre.
01/09/08
After about an hour, though, it all becomes a mind-numbing barrage.
01/03/08
Top CriticOne can certainly be amused and entertained by writer-director Michael Davis's hyperbolic action frolics -- I was -- but not without feeling pretty low and stupid.
01/03/08
Top Critic...arguably the best-directed movie of the year.
01/03/08
...an affectionate, often very funny Simpsons parody of its whole eponymous genre. It's a live-action McBane as co-directed by Quentin Tarantino and Chuck Jones.... Shoot 'Em Up is Hot Fuzz gone to the Dark Side.
01/02/08
Top CriticUma versăo idiota de Filhos da Esperança.
11/08/07
It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning.
11/03/07
Top CriticThe whole thing is supposed to be played for laughs, but it is too bloody, too brutal and too sadistic to be remotely amusing.
11/01/07
It is obvious that this is a movie where the filmmakers knew exactly what they were doing, which is why I believe this movie will live on much longer than its box office receipts indicate.
10/20/07
Forget style over substance; the style is the substance here, and it's hard to complain when it's all, quite simply, so much damn fun.
10/14/07
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