Shoot 'Em Up

Pros: lots of action, Owen is always good, lots of great one-line dialogue
Cons: really weak on plot, action gets repetitive, supporting characters non-existent

Hmmm... Well let's see... the fight scenes were really well choreographed, and the action was non-stop. That coupled with a number of one-liners that really made me laugh, and a few sequences within the film that were interesting, and you have all the ...

Pros: Tidbits of originality, a few laughs
Cons: Blatant anti-gun theme was lost of some people

Shoot ‘Em Up is the latest anti-gun movie starring Clive Owen (see also: Children of Men) and Paul Giamatti. This brainless action movie is supposed to be a satire on brainless action movies, but in the end it just insults its target ...

Pros: Well choreographed, funny.
Cons: Silly really.

I watched a two hour ad for guns last night and I'm still not sure if it was anti or pro second amendment. Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti and Monica Bellucci starred in the two hour film very accurately titled Shoot 'em Up. The film points out that ...

Pros: high-octane action, funny twists and decent performances, evenly matched avatars
Cons: none

Shoot 'Em Up is a high-octane bang-bang flick that mocks the genre in grand style. My first thoughts, in watching this flick, were of Quentin Tarentino but I also thought of The Transporter, with its Stoic hero, dead-pan style and over-the-top action. ...

Pros: good action scenes, Clive Owen, lots of guns
Cons: terrible plot, moments so stupid they're kind of funny

Shoot Em Up is a satire on over-the-top gun flicks. From the frenzied beginning of the movie where you have Clive Owen saving a pregnant woman, who gives birth while he spins around madly dispatching bad guys, it’s quite clear that Shoot ...

Pros: Great action sequences.
Cons: It runs out of steam in the last act.

For well over a decade, Hollywood has been trying to outdo the incredible action films that came out of Asia from the mid 1980s onward. Given that Hollywood has about 100 times more money, better equipment, and more famous actors, one would assume that ...

Pros: Great action and dialogue, I loved the acting
Cons: Plot doesn't make a lot of sense, too many questions.

I would really love to see a movie this year that I can just unequivocally say "This movie is good. Go watch it." Unfortunately, most of the movies I've seen this year aren't like that. I've loved them, and I would heartily recommend them, but I can't ...

Pros: Fantastic and unrealistic action sequences, Clive Owen/Paul Giamatti, awesome soundtrack.
Cons: None.

Every year, one completely ridiculous and over-the-top film is released. In 2006, that particular flick was Snakes on a Plane, and now, we have received Shoot 'Em Up, a movie that certainly defines the word "unrealistic". However, I ask ...

Pros: Massive amounts of action, cheesy writing, just a lot of fun
Cons: Other than having to suspend belief, not much

I went to see Shoot ‘em up tonight without much idea of what it was going to be like. I had seen a trailer but could barley remember it but on a Friday night with nothing better to do I thought it sounded like fun since my friends said it was just ...

Pros: occasional flashes of wit
Cons: silly even as a caricature of an action movie

I'm not inclined to shoot 'em up movies, though I've seen some of John Woo's Hong Kong movies with their cartoonish mayhem, and found Jason Statham in "Crank" at least somewhat funny. I think that "Crank" (2006) was intended as a satire of action movies ...

Pros: Tone, performances, direction.
Cons: Redundant script.

When Michael Davis was filming Shoot 'Em Up, this is probably how he imagined most reviews starting out: "Move over, Ethan Hunt, there's a new badass in town. His name is Mr. Smith (Clive Owen), and he's the bastard child of Jason Bourne and Lara ...

Pros: Entertained us with its sick side of life, themes on morals.
Cons: Sometime sick humour and graphic violence and language

Shoot 'em up is full of great lines, awesome acting and incredible fight scenes. Warning... this DVD may inspire one to want to own a gun. Correct that and make it lots of bad guns... enough to supply an army with! I watched this on DVD the other night ...

Pros: Action packed thrill ride with very hot Clive Owen and Monica Bellucci
Cons: Not meant to be taken seriously. Not for kids.

Shoot ‘Em Up (2007) Written and Directed by Michael Davis. Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) is sitting on a bench, eating a carrot, minding his own business, when a very pregnant woman (Ramona Pringle) goes running past her. A moment later we see ...

Pros: Great entertainment value. Acting is solid for what it is. Awesome action scenes.
Cons: No value beyond entertainment. There's no message to take away from it of any kind.

Walking out of Shoot Em' Up I was smiling and thinking to myself "This is how parody movies actually should be." I say this because it's absolutely true. This movie is extremely entertaining, funny, and cliche on purpose. It makes fun of the action ...

Pros: Non stop action, violence, sex, and very, very, very dark humor
Cons: Too much violence, I mean it was really over the top.

After so many years of pure violence in movies, where the most gory of gory scenes do not shock, and nothing seems tabu, what would it take to actually make audiences flinch today?  Hmmmmm Micheal Davis must have thought, no one has tapped the ...