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List Price: $35.99 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 7048
Released: January 1, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray |
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Editorial Review:
Newline Shoot 'Em Up (Blu-ray) A man named Mr. Smith (Owen) delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn fromthe army of gunmen.
Description of Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]:
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
Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray] Reviews:
...but you know what I REALLY hate? 
2009-12-11 - Shoot 'em Up (Michael Davis, 2007)
I knew I was going to love Shoot 'em Up about thirty seconds into the movie, when we first see Smith (Clive Owen), the film's protagonist, and he's sitting at a bus stop looking all badass and...eating a carrot. That was my first clue that this is not your mama's action film, and boy, is it ever. Ever not. Something like that. In any case, what it turns out to be is a hilarious, and brilliant, sendup of every genre cliché there is, while still being the most satisfying action movie I've seen this year, if not longer. I'm just going off the top of my head here, but I think this is my favorite action movie since Dead or Alive: Final. And that's saying something.
In any case, after an opening scene where a lot of things blow up in a very amusing manner, it comes to pass that Smith finds himself in charge of a baby and on the run from a gang led by a nasty sort named Hertz (Paul Giamatti). Smith needs to find some way to feed the kid, so he enlists the help of a reluctant prostitute (Monica Bellucci) who's currently lactating. The rest of the movie involves the three of them dodging a whole lot of bullets while Smith tries to figure out what Hertz and all the gangsters he can enlist are after this kid. (I'm not even going to hint at it, because when I say this movie is brilliant, I mean it. Amazing plotting here.)
Davis (Monster Man), who also wrote the screenplay, fires on all cylinders here. Everything is well-done, and everything integrates well--the strong character development, the comic timing, the plot and its twists, the amazing acting (aside from the top dogs, the movie also features such excellent, and in many cases underrated, actors as Julian Richings, David Ury, Daniel Pilon, and especially Stephen McHattie, whose very name attached to any movie in the past ten years, seemingly, turns it to gold), all the subtle (and not-so-subtle, viz. The hysterical love scene) jabs at other action films. Leave your belief at the door; this is as over-the-top as they come, and it's supposed to be. If you passed it by when it came out because you're not an action movie fan, give it a go now; it's well worth your time. *** ½
MAN I NEVER GET TIRED OF THIS MOVIE 
2009-12-09 - THIS MOVIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN SWEET BUT WATCHING IT ON BLURAY TAKES IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL! A DEFINITE MUST BUY ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE NEW TO BLURAY
Anti-Second Amendment and Anti-Masonic? 
2009-11-07 - The villain in this movies wears a Freemasonry lapel pin throughout (square and compass with a G in the middle). Clearly we are meant to understand that "Mason = Evil." But it is not discussed anywhere in the movie and I don't get the point for making this lapel pin displayed so prominently in so many scenes. Also, the end of the movie reveals the entire plot, if you can call it a plot, is about a man (Clive Owen) shooting hundreds of people in an attempt to assist an anti-second amendment agenda. This makes no sense whatsoever. Save your money. Save your time. Save your brain.
Hilarious!
2009-11-01 - This movie kept me laughing until the very end. Movies often employ dialogue to get laughs, but this is the first movie I've seen that uses pure action almost the whole way through. And it's not the cutesy little stunts done by screw-ups. No Ben Stillers falling on banana peels. No, this was bad ass hilarity. You should watch it knowing that you are watching a comedy though. If your sense of humor is a little slow on the uptake, you might end up being one of the reviewers that give this film only one star. But please save yourself the embarrassment, and don't do that.
Didn't Click with this one 
2009-10-22 - I think the movie was trying to combine the cleverness and grit of a Guy Ritchie movie, with the over the top comedy aspect of a Naked Guy/Airplane type movie. It's a formula that's going to be really tough to pull off. The movie makes a pretty good attempt, but in the end I didn't think that the violence was interesting enough, and the humor wasn't funny enough to pull it off. Maybe those types of movies just don't go together.
