I watched Shoot ‘Em Up on Sunday night and it was a little slice of awesome. If you are looking for an intriguing plot, an in depth story line or good character development this is not the flick for you. However if you are looking for non-stop action, sweet ass gun blasting scenes and at least one car chase then this is the movie for you. Honcho and I can’t agree on a single figure but Clive Owen definitely killed between 100 and 125 dudes.
One reviewer on IMDB described the movie with the following:
“BANG BANG BANG, EXPLETIVE EXPLETIVE EXPLETIVE, BANG BANG BANG!”
I agree with this in principal but I think it needs to be expanded on a little. I would go with something like:
“BANG BANG BANG, SLIDE MOVE, EXPLETIVE EXPLETIVE, BANG BANG BANG, CARROT KILL, EXPLETIVE EXPLETIVE, BANG BANG BANG, SIDE BOOB, BANG BANG BANG, EXPLETIVE EXPLETIVE”
If you need a little more of a description here you go. Clive Owen is minding his own business when he witnesses a team of gunmen trying to kill a pregnant woman. Being the samaritan that he is Clive intervenes and manages to deliver the baby while blasting fools (awesome). Clive tries the help the mother and the new born escape from Paul Giamatti and his team of killers. The mother ends up being killed in the escape so Clive takes it upon himself to protect the baby and figure out why a team of assassins is trying to kill the kid.
Long story short, if you have 86 minutes to burn and would like to do it with an entertaining movie with lots of blazing guns then Shoot ‘Em Up is the movie for you.
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This is about as close to a video game movie as you can get. I’d say 500 bullets were fired by the good guy and about 485 of his shots hit their target.
The best part had to be the merry-go-round scene, followed by a Paul Giamatti “fuck me sideways”.