Shoot 'Em Up

Corholio

I remember seeing the trailer a bit ago for this and looked forward to seeing it. I definitely wasn't dissapointed, it won't be everyone's cup of tea but i sat down to watch this and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's incredibly exaggerated for the whole film and i think thats what made it enjoyable to watch. Any film with Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti in it and i'm there anyway lol Not forgetting the delectable, insanely gorgeous Monica Bellucci. Some very clever use of gunplay and a bizarre use of

carrots

lol

As i said some people wont like it, i really enjoyed the action scenes in it more than most ive seen this year. Love the scene

where he jumps down the middle of the spiral stairs and starts gunning down numerous cronies

johnny_ultimate

Just watched this at the weekend and had one helluva grin on my face throughout. The whole thing just oozed style. Probably even surpasses Crank in terms of inventive, OTT and hilarious action.

Vegetable weaponry ftw.

monkeyfudge

I loved how it sort of had a anti-gun message at it's heart... very funny.

Owen and Giamatti are great. But I feel the gun fights get a little bit boring due to the fact that the bad guys can't shoot for sh*t... you really need a bad guy who is equally good as your hero in order for the battles to be interesting.

feylya

Got this a while back. Saw the trailer in the cinema and wanted to see it but didn't get a chance. Fantastic film for switching your brain off.

IamBeowulf

Great movie. Owen knows exactly how to pull off the surly, sardonic wit and Giamatti, as usual, eats the screen for breakfast...in a good way. Bellucci is as always mesmerising (I want to have her babies) and my only regret is that I didn't get to see her magnificent aureoles.

L31mr0d

Liked it but not as much as Crank. I felt it was trying to be Crank but couldn't sustain the pace throughout the whole movie.

Kintarō Hattori

I went to see this on a whim not having seen or heard much about it and really enjoyed it. Very funny and full of fast moving action its very enjoyable. T'will be a DVD purchase for sure.

The DVD is currently somewhere over the Atlantic on it's way to me. I'v been looking forward to it since I saw Michael Davis's animated storyboards a few years back.

TerrorFirmer

Pretty good movie, some very inventive scenes. Nothing original mind, but when you do it with a lot of style it doesn't get old....The sky diving scene was excellent in particular.

Wacker

HavoK wrote: »

The sky diving scene was excellent in particular.

Mostly on account of AC/DC's awesome If You Want Blood during the scene. Man, I really love AC/DC....

No, the best bit was when

: he shoots out the windshield of his BMW and that of the van full of goons headed right at him, removes his seatbelt and crashes headlong into the van. He flies into the back of the goon-filled van and blasts them all at close range

. The cinema erupted into howls of laughter at the craziness/awesomeness of it.
That scene could have been improved only by adding in some AC/DC.

senordingdong

I really wanted to see this but it was brushed out of the cinema too quickly.

It's out on dvd now so I'll have to pick it up soon.

Branoic

Rented this there last night and God I thought it was awful. Well, maybe not awful, there were definitely some great bits in it, but overall, very disappointing. I'm all for stylish gunplay (I love Equilibrium, for example), but most of this film was just retarded.

The opening firefight

where he shoots the oil barrel and uses the oil to slide along the floor

was absolutely brilliant, and I was really excited and looking forward to the rest of the film based on that. There were one or two other really entertaining sequences, in particular the

head first through the shot-out windscreen into the back of the van bit

but God there was just so much more wrong with it.

I thought the

skydiving scene

was a really good idea and something we hadn't seen before, but the effects in it were really really crap and fake.

Also, the shootout in the

gun factory where in the space of five minutes he rigs every corridor with gun traps without anyone noticing him, and then controls the guns remotely pulling strings

was definitely the stupidest thing I've seen in any film in a long long time.

And finally, what the HELL was with the

robot baby

? Where did that even come from!?!?

One or two cool scenes and Giamatti are the only things not diabolical about the film.

Otacon

Branoic wrote: »

Rented this there last night and God I thought it was awful. Well, maybe not awful, there were definitely some great bits in it, but overall, very disappointing. I'm all for stylish gunplay (I love Equilibrium, for example), but most of this film was just retarded.

The opening firefight

where he shoots the oil barrel and uses the oil to slide along the floor

was absolutely brilliant, and I was really excited and looking forward to the rest of the film based on that. There were one or two other really entertaining sequences, in particular the

head first through the shot-out windscreen into the back of the van bit

but God there was just so much more wrong with it.

I thought the

skydiving scene

was a really good idea and something we hadn't seen before, but the effects in it were really really crap and fake.

Also, the shootout in the

gun factory where in the space of five minutes he rigs every corridor with gun traps without anyone noticing him, and then controls the guns remotely pulling strings

was definitely the stupidest thing I've seen in any film in a long long time.

And finally, what the HELL was with the

robot baby

? Where did that even come from!?!?

One or two cool scenes and Giamatti are the only things not diabolical about the film.

From the sounds of things, you took the film far too seriously. TBH as soon as I heard what it was called, I realised I was in for another 'Crank' which is a relatively good thing.

BTW how did you feel about Crank?

kaimera

Otacon wrote: »

From the sounds of things, you took the film far too seriously. TBH as soon as I heard what it was called, I realised I was in for another 'Crank' which is a relatively good thing.

BTW how did you feel about Crank?

Hang on, did you not tell me that Crank sucked?

It was enjoyable fodder tbh; silly, ott and all you can do is sit back and watch.

Otacon

kaimera wrote: »

Hang on, did you not tell me that Crank sucked?

It was enjoyable fodder tbh; silly, ott and all you can do is sit back and watch.

That is why I said 'relatively'. Crank is OK, not as great as you seem to think imo.

senordingdong

Phantastic movie.

I'm gonna buy it.

Karl Hungus

I loved it. It was a complete cheeseball of a movie, ridiculously over the top.

Mossy Monk

A fantastic switch your brain off movie. I loved it too. It didn't pretend to be anything else.

Fantastic action movie. Brilliantly over the top.

Necronomicon

Otacon wrote: »

From the sounds of things, you took the film far too seriously. TBH as soon as I heard what it was called, I realised I was in for another 'Crank' which is a relatively good thing.

BTW how did you feel about Crank?

Shoot 'Em Up really eclipses Crank in terms of silliness, something I didn't think was possible.

I enjoyed them both, but I prefer Crank. I think Shoot 'Em Up might have been just that bit too silly at times

shooting the baby's umbilicol chord

the sky-diving gun fight

Clive Owen holding the bullet in front of the fire to make it fire

the last scene in the cafè, where Owen pulls off that ridiculous set of permutations with his gun to kill the bad guys and smash the fat guy's milkshake

The movie probably defies every law of physics out there, but enjoyable if that type of thing doesn't bother you.

Galvasean

Probably the best no brains action movie since Commando. Loved it! Watched it 3 times within 24 hours this week.