Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

	Directed by: Michael Davis	COUNTRY USA GENRE Action NORWEGIAN TITLE Shoot 'Em Up RUNNING TIME 86 minutes
	Produced by: Rick Benattar Susan Montford Don Murphy
	Written by: Michael Davis

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Smith	Clive Owen
Hertz	Paul Giamatti	½
Donna	Monica Bellucci
Hammerson	Stephen McHattie
Lone Man	Greg Bryk
Senator Rutledge	Daniel Pilon
Baby's Mother	Ramona Pringle
Hertz' Driver	Julian Richings

Review

I think Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti joined this project thinking they were going to have themselves a good time. And I have no doubt that they did. The writer/director is Michael Davis, a Brit who seems inspired by Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie and desperately wanted to outdo them both with this partly ironic, partly ultra-silly action flick. In many ways, you could argue that he succeeds. Shoot 'Em Up is more excessive and perpetual than most of its peers, and if you turn off your critical sense, you may be able to enjoy a fair chunk of it. Clive Owen is so relentlessly one-note in the lead that he could have kept going for another two hours without blinking. Fortunately for us, however, Davis is wise enough to wrap up after only 86 minutes. That is more than enough considering the illogical insults and painful one-liners we have had to sit through by then. The former I can live with; the latter is a disappointment in this sub-genre – and it is definitely an aspect in which Shoot 'Em Up doesn't come close to emulating Tarantino.