Shoot 'Em Up DVD > Reviews

Advantages: Really delivers in the gunfights, Never slows down, Funny in Parts, Carrots, Smith's pet Hates
Disadvantages: Weak Plot/Storyline, Too Much Action for Some

Shoot 'Em Up in my eyes is a one-of-its kind film. It felt much more like an extended fight scene than a movie. It's ridiculous, pointless with gratuitous amounts of violence. The plot seemed hazy and confusing, yet I loved watching every moment of it. Shoot 'Em Up stars Clive Own (Croupier, Sin City), Monica Belluci (Matrix Reloaded) and Paul Giamatti (The Illusionist, Big Fat Liar). I thought that Clive Owen would be a very unlikely actor to ... Read review

Advantages: Action packed from the first few seconds
Disadvantages: Thin on plot, colour fades to limit blood

...the incredibly fun action comedy Shoot 'Em Up. A movie that I wrote off earlier in the year just simply because the movie's title was quite frankly shit! The adverts, and the all present bus stop billboard notices burned a hole in your brain, and made this a no go area for me. It was during the festive period that for whatever reason (I can't quite remember) I decided to put the DVD in my player. It took about 45 seconds into the actual story ... Read review

Advantages: Fun, tongue in cheek.
Disadvantages: No real story.

...old said "Can we watch Shoot 'em up, Tom says it's mint". Basic plot/premise: Clive Owen plays Mr Smith, an ex undercover special ops guy with a penchant for eating carrots, and occasionally using them for weapons and/or tools. I will describe the opening few minutes and then not spoil any more of the plot, instead give you a kind of 'thoughts shower' about the film: We see a heavily pregnant woman being chased into a disused warehouse by ... Read review

Advantages: Some good action scenes, decent performances
Disadvantages: Bit far fetched and lacking plot

When a movie's called Shoot Em Up, you expect to find it on the bottom shelf of the rental store. What you don't expect to see is names such as Clive Owen, Monica Belluci and Paul Giamatti starring in it. The movie is a very difficult one to judge, you'll either like it or hate it. I don't think there can be much of an in-between. The film opens with Smith (Owen) sitting on a bench at night minding his own business. Soon the silence is broken ... Read review

Advantages: A fun movie
Disadvantages: none really

Shoot em Up was made in 2007 and was written and directed by Michael Davis, the main cast include Clive Owen ( Children of Men ) who plays Smith, Monica Bellucci ( Passion of the Christ ) who plays Donna, and Paul Giamatti ( The Illusionist ) who plays Hertz. The story centres around a new born baby whom Smith as named Oliver. In the opening scenes a pregnant woman runs past Smith who is sitting quietly at a bus stop, she is pursued by a gunman. ... Read review