Hello, I'm Jack, I'm 18 and live in Pembrokeshire, Wales. I like video games, listening to music, T...
Hello, I'm Jack, I'm 18 and live in Pembrokeshire, Wales. I like video games, listening to music, TV, movies and I like knowing about and learning about new technology. I also have an interest in business / money, and have some interest in politics.
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This is a fast paced action movie, as you might expect from the title. I expected it to be a fun action / thriller movie, and it was at some points.
There is a lot of shooting, killing and comedy in the film. I liked it at times, like when Smith gets annoyed with people and sorts things out his own way. However at times I didnt enjoy it because I am not very good at enjoying un--realistic things. I didn't like it because some bits of the film are very weird, and some bits are just a bit childish or poor.
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 good time during most of the film
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.
I'd reccomend it to people that just want a quick fix of action and shooting, but dont buy this hoping for a good storyline to be included.
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Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Advantages: Perfect for the action junkie - a highly stupid movie with bags of cool. Disadvantages: Not enjoyable if you forget to switch your brain off!
clownfoot 05.01.2009 (05.01.2009)
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Review of Shoot 'Em Up (DVD)
Advantages: Perfect for the action junkie - a highly stupid movie with bags of cool. Disadvantages: Not enjoyable if you forget to switch your brain off!
clownfoot 05.01.2009 (05.01.2009)
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