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BLACK COMEDY
CRIME
THRILLER
COMEDY
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US |
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C |
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100 |
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ANTI Reviews
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| It's trash (in other words, a typical Hollywood film.) Clive Own plays Mr. Smith, a dude who's just sitting there, minding his own business, when a pregnant woman runs past him. Some guy with a gun chases her, running past Clive, and follows the lady into a warehouse. Clive, a little reluctantly, follows her inside, where he winds up shooting lots of bad guys, delivering the baby, and then severing the umbilical cord with a bullet. Seconds later, mommy gets killed. Baby is an orphan.At this point, all I cared about was the baby. The baby is innocent. That's the only thing redeeming in this film noir tale which, so far, is just an excuse to put lots of stylized violence on the screen because audiences have indicated that they will pay for it. Every time you buy a movie ticket or rent a video you are casting a vote telling the movie industry, “That’s what I want.” Why does “Hollywood” continue to promote immoral programming? It gets even worse when Mr. Smith goes to a brothel, which is disguised as a church, so he can get a slut played by Monica Bellucci, to look after the child. Later, Monica will perform a sex act on a stranger in a back alley. Why? Because it gives the audience something to laugh at. Ho ho ho. (Those three syllables can be read as a sarcastic laugh or as an adjective describing almost every character in this movie.)... Seriously, don't waste your money on Shoot ‘Em Up. It's nothing but two hours of violence, profanity, and unnecessary nudity pandering as entertainment. Spend your cash on something more edifying. |
| (Christian Spotlight on the Movies) |
| There's virtually no plot, laughably brief attempts at character development… and dialogue that consists mostly of jokey one-liners muttered through gritted teeth, just before somebody gets blown away. |
| (Michael Machosky, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) |
| Absolutely not for feminists, lovers of period films, and anyone whose sensibilities are bruised by over-the-top stuntwork, it's a cocktail made up of three parts testosterone to one part brains.… Shoot 'Em Up exists for its crunching ballet of flailing bodies and spinning cars, for its ghoulish black humor, and for its hopped-up, boys-only party vibe. |
| (Ty Burr, Boston Globe) |
| Action-hero movie send-up Shoot 'Em Up gives new meaning to the word ‘wretched.’… a gratuitous spectacle of violence. |
| (Stephen McGarvey, Crosswalk) |
| This is seedy, morally defunct, low-IQ cinema for airheads: it’s toe-curlingly violent and mostly plain nasty. |
| (Derek Adams, Time Out) |
| Wearyingly crude and calculating. |
| (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian) |
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A belated attempt at a plot, involving gun control, need not detain us: the OTT action and amoral humour are the entire point.
(David Gritten, Daily Telegraph)
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