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List Price: $28.98 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $13.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 07 September, 2007 DVD Release : 01 January, 2008 |
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Shoot 'Em Up description Every action movie has a moment so over the top you have to laugh; Shoot 'Em Up consists of nothing but these moments. A carrot-eating, lone wolf kind of guy named Smith (Clive Owen, Children of Men, Inside Man) steps in to protect a pregnant woman from a gunman--and finds himself, with the aid of a lactating prostitute (Monica Belluci, The Matrix Revisited), defending the newborn child from a sleazy contract killer Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti, American Splendor, Sideways) and his army of thugs. That's pretty much the plot, but story is beside the point. Writer/director Michael Davis (Monster Man) has a keen sense of what matters in an action movie. The rapid-fire editing is scrupulously coherent; you always grasp what happened in every shoot-out, even if it flagrantly violates the laws of physics or basic plausibility. Explaining how Smith survives a four-story fall--even if that explanation is beyond ridiculous--demonstrates both a sense of wit and a winking respect for the audience's imagination. As a result, Shoot 'Em Up is ten times more entertaining than the likes of Transformers or Rush Hour 3, movies so self-satisfied with special effects or movie stars that they forgot to be fun. (Shoot 'Em Up's only weakness is a sliver of misogyny, the one action movie cliche that it's not clever enough to transcend.) --Bret Fetzer |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Over the top is an understatement |
| Have you ever seen a movie that was so bad that you had to tell everybody about it just so they could feel your pain? Well that's what I'm doing now because this is one of those movies. This movie (as most do) caught my eye with it's preview. Good action ala John Woo style. I love action movies as much as any other guy. Back in the 80's I remember a ton by: Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Norris & Seagal. They were "over the top" and at times "unrealistic" but in the end they were still entertaining and a good time. Take the unrealistic nature of any of those movies and multiply it by 10. Many scenes in "Shoot em' Up" are so unrealistic you will be on the floor laughing it's so bad. Clive Owen's a great actor but he doesn't have a prayer in saving this bomb. One scene Clive takes out literally about 50 men that enter a room like an assembly line. Which if it stopped their would be fine. But no, he does it while still engaging the female lead in the bedroom? And if that's not enough she still remains excited during the process! Or a scene where Owen shoots at a merry-go-round multiple times to get it to spin so a sniper can't get a bead on the baby he just placed their? Or many scenes where Owen is running, rolling, flipping and smashing through windows which is fine. But Owen does it while holding a baby like a football. And of course the baby is always fine afterwards. Who wrote this movie a 15 year old boy?! Another area where this movie falls flat is character development. It's total action from beginning to end. Which may sound good but you really don't get a chance to know the characters. Which after a while you can basically care less about them or what happens. Save an hour and a half of your life and skip this one. Then again if you want to see how bad something can be check it out? | |
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