DVD: Shoot 'Em Up

Shoot 'Em Up stars Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti and Monica Bellucci and is written and directed by Michael Davis.

Clive Owen plays a man named Smith who at the start of the movie is waiting at a bus stop. Then along comes with pregnant woman, who looks likes she's in trouble, Smith just shrugs her off. Then seconds later a car comes crash into another parked car just a little way down the street. Coming out of the car a guy comes stumbling out yelling down at the woman as she turns down a alleyway. As the man walks after her he pulls out a gun, getting ready to kill her. Smith too gets up and follows. What follows is a thrill ride of guns blazing and mindless fun. The woman has her baby and after the gun battle with a LOT of people. Smith takes the kid to keep its safe of the men trying to kill him. The person who is trying to kill him is a hit man, Hertz (played by Paul Giamatti). Smith gets away from him and tries to get help with the newborn baby from a prostitute named Donna Quintano (played by Monica Bellucci), at first she denies helping but Hertz finds out he came to her and she eventually helps Smith. The two of them go to a hideout of Smiths, Hertz through a series of clues finds out where they are at and sends fifty men and goes to ambush him to kill the two and get the kid. While Smith tries to find out why someone would want to kill the these kids, it all leads to an action pack of violence to this already fun thrill ride.

Shoot 'Em Up is, forgive the pun, a very fun and entertaining shoot 'em up movie. On a movie like this I would have never thought that actors Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti would ever do something like this. Now after I see the movie I could not think of anyone else who could do better than what those two do in this movie. Pual Giamatti was great in his character Hertz, they way he plays him so relaxed and laid back was somewhat refreshing, because most shoot 'em up movies mostly stick to the same cliche type of villain.

Another good aspect of this was that it does not take itself that seriously and has some great comedic moment in the movie. Like when Hertz talk to his wife over his phone while he is working. Clive Owen character Smith has some great remarks throughout the movie, and his character has a short temper for small things that bug people like chewing their gum loud or people sporting a ponytail even to people who do not use their blinker when driving. To all those he use force to stop them.

The movie is pretty just much mindless fun, don't look to much into the reality of the movie, like by say that would never happen in real like. Just sit back and enjoy the over the top gun battles. For me the movie seemed to be a mix between Bugs Bunny and John Woo's shoot 'em up movie Hardboiled. Throughout the movie Hertz and Smith have sort of a Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd quality, Hertz wants (and tries) to kill Smith, and Smith is always eating carrots is another thought of that. The way it resembles Hardboiled is from the guns blazing gun fights, much like any gun fight with Chow Yun Fat character and we rarely see Smith reloading.

If you want a mindless fun, awesome gun fights, and funny and quirky dialogue and not try to evaluate every part of the movie then you'll love this movie. Much like myself. This is a very fun and action-packed movie with a great look to the movie. I Highly Recommend Shoot 'Em Up.

DVD

The DVD Shoot 'Em Up is much liked its feature film, action packed with features. It contains a Feature Commentary with the Writer/Director Michael Davis, Deleted Scenes, "Ballet of Bullets: Making of Shoot 'Em Up", Writer/Director Michael Davis' original animatics, and some trailers and previews.

Everything within the DVD is good. The making of featurette is pretty good, in its full length its around 52 minutes long and is entertaining throughout. The deleted scenes are decent they too also have commentary by the writer/director. Even the animatic in which the writer/director showed to sell this movie was really good. Overall this is a very good DVD which sits along with a very entertaining movie. This is Highly Recommended as a Buy.