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Actors: Clive Owen Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 86 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: January 1, 2008 Theatrical Release Date: September 7, 2007 Studio: New Line Home Video
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Clive Owen Paul Giamatti and Monica Bellucci star. Also included are deleted scenes making of the film 15 minutes of writer/director Michael Davis' original animatics and more!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/CRIME UPC: 794043112331 Manufacturer No: 1000035231
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
