Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]

Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]
by Michael Davis

Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Clive Owen, Greg Bryk, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Stephen McHattie
Director: Michael Davis
Brand: Newline
Writer: Michael Davis
Producer: Cale Boyter
Producer: Don Murphy
Producer: Douglas Curtis
Producer: Jeff Katz
Producer: Rick Benattar
Producer: Susan Montford
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: New Line Home Video

DVD Reviews of Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]

DVD Review: Shoot um Up
Summary: 4 Stars

Great action film, the story line is believable, well acted by Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti, and tons of quotable dialogue....loved it.

DVD Review: 7.1 Channels of Pure Adrenaline
Summary: 5 Stars

If you love action films and have a 7.1 channel sound system, order NOW! The first time I watched this disc, I was as giddy as a child on Christmas morning. Awesome sound track. Very well engineered.

While I liked Clive Owen as the hero, I especially liked Paul Giamatti's counterpoint portrayal as the villain that gave Clive the perfect enemy to battle. I'm not a video game player, but this movie was just plain fun. Clive does the impossible, and why not? It's a fantasy. Enjoy it.

DVD Review: Shoot 'Em Up
Summary: 4 Stars

I am a huge fan of all things Clive Owen and this film did not disappoint. Yes it is,(of course) action packed and heart-pounding. However, it surprised me with its wittiness and fun. Paul Giamatti was great and Monica Bellucii made me a fan.
If you enjoy any of the above, you NEED to see this film. :) ymm

DVD Review: Do not check your Personal Body Armor at the door!
Summary: 5 Stars

If you dig mindless, nonstop action, shot with style and cleverness, Shoot Em Up! is the movie for you.
It's over the top, totally unbelievable, physically impossible, but absolutely brilliant all at the same time.

Clive Owen eats a lot of carrots and values his privacy. There are many things that he absolutely hates, and he comes into contact with most of these things when he unwillingly gets involved in a plot to kill a very pregnant young woman. Suddenly faced with a nanny job, he shoots his way out of the frying pan and into the fire, each scenario more jaw-dropping-ly impossible than the last. Paul Giamatti plays an unlikely criminal mastermind and Monica Bellucci is under-utilized in but she sizzles as the proverbial professional girl with a heart of gold. Things get political, and hopelessly complicated, and of course there's lots and lots (and lots) of shooting, during any (and I do mean ANY) situation. Four Stars!

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DVD Review: A pleasant surprise . . . for an excessively violent movie
Summary: 4 Stars

This movie was an enjoyable ride that didn't take itself at all
seriously, which probably makes it better than many an action movie out
there, where realism is suddenly interrupted by some unbelievable act
of derring-do. Riddled with guns, violence and profanity, this flick
pulls no punches and keeps the pedal to the metal. Funny, disturbing,
graphic, foul-mouthed, sexy and touching and various and simultaneous
times. Pays homage to John Woo's "Hardboiled" and is laced with
Tarantino-like humor. The stunts and gunplay are phenomenal. A
full-throttle adventure obviously designed to be over the top.

Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti both do a fantastic job. And Monica
Belluchacabra isn't bad either as a lactating prostitute. I wouldn't
watch it with the wife, though. Much more of a guy flick.

Description of Shoot 'Em Up [Blu-ray]

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.

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

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