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CS Weekly Archive > Weekend Read > 09/07/07
Babes in Boyland
By david michael wharton
Shoot 'Em Up
Michael Davis (also directed)
It's only appropriate that Shoot 'Em Up's scruffy, deadly hero Smith (Clive Owen) spends every other scene chewing on carrots, because this movie is basically a live action cartoon—Looney Tunes with live ammo. After finding himself at the wrong bus stop at the wrong time, former black ops man Smith winds up with a dead woman's baby in his arms and a never-ending phalanx of hired killers on his tail, headed by the equally scruffy Hertz (Paul Giamatti). With the help of a lactating hooker (Monica Bellucci), Smith sets out to learn why someone wants the baby dead, and to kill a whoooooole lot of people along the way. The plot is preposterous, the dialogue silly, and the action ridiculous (name another movie where the lead kills someone with a carrot on at least two occasions—go on, I'll wait)…and the entire thing is a giggle-inducing hoot to watch. If you like your action leavened with logic, try another door, but for those looking for pure spectacle, acrobatic feats of cartoonish violence, and a determined refusal to take increasingly outlandish situations seriously, Shoot 'Em Up is a dead-on bullseye.
Shoot 'Em Up
New Line Cinema
Rated R; 80 min.
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Shoot 'Em Up courtesy New Line Cinema
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