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Title: Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Clive Owen | ... | Smith | |
| Paul Giamatti | ... | Hertz | |
| Monica Bellucci | ... | Donna Quintano | |
| Stephen McHattie | ... | Hammerson | |
| Greg Bryk | ... | Lone Man | |
| Daniel Pilon | ... | Senator Rutledge | |
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Sidney Mende-Gibson | ... | Baby Oliver |
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Lucas Mende-Gibson | ... | Baby Oliver |
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Kaylyn Yellowlees | ... | Baby Oliver |
| Ramona Pringle | ... | Baby's Mother | |
| Julian Richings | ... | Hertz's Driver | |
| Tony Munch | ... | Man Who Rides Shotgun | |
| Scott McCord | ... | Killer Shot in Behind | |
| Wiley M. Pickett | ... | 1st Killer (as Wiley Pickett) | |
| Stephen R. Hart | ... | Club Bouncer | |
Late at night, in an unnamed U.S. city, a solitary man sits at a bus stop. A pregnant woman runs by, pursued by a man with a gun. With reluctance, the man at the bus stop rescues her and assists with the baby's delivery, while additional pursuers fire at them, including the gang's particularly nasty leader, an intuitive man named Hertz. Our hero, known only as Smith, determines to save the child and find out why Hertz wants the baby dead. At a local bordello, he tries to employ a lactating hooker to watch the child, but things quickly escalate, and this makeshift family is soon on the run. Heavy metal music calms the baby. Why? A laboratory, gun factory, and presidential campaign all figure in Smith's quest for the child's safe deliverance. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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I had been looking forward to this movie for months, so walking in, I had somewhat high expectations. Walking out, I felt very satisfied and that I had gotten more than my money's worth.
You are going to be hard-pressed to find a movie more over the top than Shoot 'Em Up. What Michael Davis does here is take every action movie cliché (i.e. firing two guns while jumping through the air, shooting guns out of speeding cars, etc.) and takes it to a whole new level entirely. It works namely because the violence here is just so creative. Sure, it defies all logic most of the time, but I was laughing and having a rip-roaring time throughout.
Clive Owen is perfectly cast as the carrot-chomping, gun-toting smart aleck hero and has no shortage of cheesy puns (that score big laughs). The rest of the cast does well, but really, it's Clive's show.
The "plot" is pretty much non-existent other than about a half dozen scenes of slightly forced dialogue. The purpose behind these scenes is more to give the audience a couple of minutes to catch it's collective breath between action scenes than it is to develop an actual story. And really, if you went to this movie expecting an in-depth character drama, you picked the wrong film.
At a little under an hour and a half, Shoot 'Em Up successfully delivers a perfect dosage of action, guns and puns without overstaying it's welcome. I'll be sure to see it at least a couple more times while it is still in theaters.
Plus, it has Mötley Crüe's, "Kickstart my Heart". What more could you ask for?