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Shoot 'Em Up

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 29 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 64 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Comedy | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Michael Davis
Directed by: Michael Davis
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 7, 2007
DVD: January 1, 2008
Running Time: 80 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive strong bloody violence, sexuality and some language
Starring Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Greg Bryk, Stephen McHattie, Ramona Pringle, and Jane McLean
Mr. Smith is a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally to protect a newborn baby from a determined criminal who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city. (New Line Cinema)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The most audacious, implausible, cheerfully offensive, hyperactive action picture I've seen since, oh, "Sin City," which in comparison was a chamber drama.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
This is likely the fastest-moving intentionally funny action movie ever made. It's as if the 21 Bond movies and four "Die Hards" had been distilled to remove their body fat (that is, character development, buildup, rest stops, etc.) and left us with only the killing and the punch lines.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Its pulpy violent excess will tip over...into slightly more excessive excess. That's its silly, scuzzball joy.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Anyone looking for subtlety, character development or layered plotting will be disappointed, but action fans will find plenty to amuse them with this film that makes "Hard-Boiled" look restrained.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
The season's first guilty pleasure, Shoot 'Em Up is a joyously silly, R-rated, John Woo-in flected Looney Tune, with Clive Owen as a carrot-chomping, gun-toting Bugs Bunny matching wits with Elmer Fudd-ish assassin Paul Giamatti.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
It's funny without being toothless, adrenaline turbocharged without being mean and utterly deranged in the best sense of the word.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
This wet dream for action junkies leaves out logic and motivation --you know, all the boring stuff.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
For sheer audacity and adrenaline-fueled carnage, Shoot 'Em Up hits its target pretty much dead on.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
The presence of the two actors and the film's mordant sense of humor buoy the downtime between bloodbaths and genre fans may find enough to love here.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
It's all meant as gory good fun, but once the novelty wears off half an hour in, the rest of the film is only meant for people who absolutely agree with Giamatti's character about that violence thing.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
There's a little bit of "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" in Shoot 'Em Up, although this production isn't as smart or as slick.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Absolutely not for feminists, lovers of period films, and anyone whose sensibilities are bruised by over-the-top stuntwork, it's a cocktail made up of three parts testosterone to one part brains.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
The saving grace in an exuberantly graceless movie is Clive Owen. This actor is bulletproof. Even in a sick-joke jamboree like Shoot 'Em Up, he mows down the competition and gets his laughs without losing his composure.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Despite all the flying bullets, which are admittedly entertaining at times, Shoot 'Em Up doesn't offer enough bang for your bucks.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Andy Spletzer
The whole thing feels like watching somebody else play a video game. Director Michael Davis obviously was more interested in crafting a series of gunfights than a coherent story arc.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Violent thrills and massive blood spills are the essence of the absurdly over-the-top action flick that is Shoot 'Em Up.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
One can certainly be amused and entertained by writer-director Michael Davis's hyperbolic action frolics--I was--but not without feeling pretty low and stupid.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole
A furious 90-minute trailer of a movie that exceeds the speed limit for action films established by Quentin Tarantino's recent "Grindhouse."
Read Full Review >Premiere Karl Rozemeyer
As a bonus, it contains, at least, the best death-by-carrot scene in the history of film.
Read Full Review >Variety Peter Debruge
Good taste is the first fatality in this gonzo thrill-seeker, sure to offend mainstream dispositions, yet too stylistically audacious to dismiss outright.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
For the most part, this is strictly kiss kiss, bang bang, yawn yawn.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Shoot 'Em Up is not only the title of Hollywood's latest descent into nonsensical mayhem but pretty much sums up the entire inane plot as well.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
It sets a tone, all right. A lot of gamers (sorry, "filmgoers") may well enjoy writer-director Michael Davis' ultraviolent lark. It's not meant to be taken seriously. But films like this are worth taking seriously because they're genuinely cruddy and hollow and, yes, vile.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning. The fights are staged so that they all look the same, and the principle is always the same: The gunman's multiple antagonists never hit, and he never misses. John Woo at least had fun with this sort of thing 20 years ago. And Giamatti? What the heck is he doing here?
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The picture is just a catalog of strained camera moves and preprogrammed gags, with no wit or style.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
Owen, Giamatti, and Bellucci--all fine actors at the peak of hireability--must have been coming off a collective coke bender when they agreed to be in this murky, straight-to-video-looking piece of crud.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 64 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
alex r gave it a7:
It's a comedy. Pure and simple. Black hearted, stupid but very funny and one of those films that's likely to get funnier every time you watch it. Not a classic by any means, but still very entertaining.
matt w gave it a10:
Wow some people just don't know how to have a f*cken good time. I was amazingly entertained by this movie. Nothing was realistic, and i dont care. It was fun, exciting, complete action. If its not your genre, don't rate it a 0, base it on how it appeals to people who do like it.
James S. gave it a10:
its so bad its good! its like street fighter with guns! its a gd no brainer film tht if u have an hour n a half to kill is totally elite
Titanium Dragon gave it an8:
This movie is underrated by the critics, simple as that. Its quite good, but not in the "good good" sort of way. This movie is exactly what its title says, and it really is basically what would happen if you took an action movie, removed a lot of the "people talking", and then released it into the wild. It sounds stupid, and ultimately, is stupid, but it is stupid in an incredibly wonderful way. If you enjoy action movies, you'll enjoy this because this is why you enjoy action movies. If you don't enjoy action movies, you'll hate this movie because there is nothing else to it - it is nothing but an action movie. The protagonist's carrot eating, his ridiculous means of killing people, the wonderfully coreographed but completely insane gunfights... its amazing. Dumb, but amazing. Its worth watching. Not the best movie ever, but possibly one of the purest.
Till H. gave it a10:
A mixture of Wanted and Crank, havent seen such a hilarious move for some time.
Benjamin K. gave it an8:
You can't really go wrong with a movie that has a sex scene involving a gunfight and an infant.
Scott Q gave it a2:
I am all for action, blood and violence, don't get me wrong, but this is really a horrible movie, seriously, this is really bad.
