Shoot 'Em Up (18)

A cross between Sin City (but without it's artistry) and Pale Horse(The Man With No Name).Instead of spitting to a flute,he eats carrots to Heavy Metal.Even Eastern Promises drew the line at babies!Clive Owen didn't get James Bond so he's making up for lost time.It is a post-modern pastiche,hence Giamatti's bad guy and Belucci's horny,thick-lipped prostitute earth mother.No,it was not good.There was no subtlety,nuance or feeling.Cartoon violence,each scene getting more ludicrous than the next.It even ripped off The Bourne Identity: the scene the scene where he drops down the stairwell shooting all and sundry.In the culture we're in now to glamorize gun violence in any way is dumbing down to less than zero. Clive Owen made The Children of Men.I thought he was an actor.Wrong move.

Ludicrous and sleazy. Cheesy one-liners, an absurd carrot motif, and a relentless succession of mainly unimaginative action sequences - although the scene in which a naked Clive Owen kills a series of villains while simultaneously bringing Monica Bellucci to ecstasy has a certain verve. But mostly it is like the fantasy of an indulged teenager who fancies himself as a bit of an auteur. It may be a pastiche, although I doubt that it has that intelligence, but if so it is a very inferior example.

Many reviewers have failed to mention that this film is a pastiche, ie that it is sending up the violent movie genre . .. No doubt the British reviewers cannot face the fact that the Americans are not only capable of `pastiche` but do it much more entertainly than than up-themselves European counterparts. A very entertaining 90 minutes with some great one-liners, which dissects the cinematic techniques of the violent crime action movies without being pretentious or over-arty. . .By all means take your girlfriend . .. she'll love it . . . the only complaint I have about the film is the carrot motif .. . which, even , for this film, was a little over the top.

About as believable as a violent video game, and just as much fun. I couldn't stop grinning. If you want entertainment see this movie. But don't take your girlfiend.

Brilliant film. Funny from start to finish. How anybody could watch this without a smile on their face i'll never know. Great actions sequences. Suspend belief and you'll enjoy.

I'm in agreement with Ethanrunt, and I think most reviewers -- professional or otherwise -- appear to have missed the point that it is a brilliant satire on the action genre. I found it hysterically funny, and I enjoyed both Paul Giamatti and Clive Owen playing off each other. It appeared they were having great fun with it. The violence, whilst almost non-stop, was highly stylised and not remotely intended to seem 'realistic'. What came to mind for me was a "Kill Bill" with guns.

perfect example of "does what it says on the tin" wall to wall action ,money shot after money shot great action film. go see it

one of the dumbest but at the same time entertaining movie of all time

i can just say this totaly awsome movie hot lead and guns amazing to watch

the worst film i have ever seen it was so chessy and unrelistic