Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller

Dive into the most thrilling blast of action excitement ever put to film! Intense, gritty and undeniably fun, this pulse-pounding adrenaline rush is so shamelessly over-the-top, it "would make even John Woo jealous" (Variety)! When the man known only as Smith (Cline Owen), a gorgeous streetwalker (Monica Bellucci) and a maniacal hitman (Paul Giamatti) get swept up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, it sets off an explosion of armed thugs, flying bullets and nonstop action so big, it'll blow you away!

Wow. Shoot 'Em Up is exactly what it claims to be. An action movie. Balls to the wall, no holds barred, but nothing more. And that's exactly what you get. Don't go expecting high art...Shoot 'Em Up doesn't take itself seriously enough for that. But that's exactly what makes it work. It KNOWS it's over the top, and doesn't try to hide it. Clive Owen's Smith character is the Bugs Bunny to Paul Giamatti's Hurtz Elmer Fudd. The film takes the best cartoon elements, makes them flesh, and still kicks in that over the top craziness. Bad puns that are so bad they're good, action sequences that there just for the sake of having an action sequence, and the wildest sex scene ever...it's amazing. It's the funniest, coolest, most amazing mix of stunts, bad one liners and paper think plot lines.


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