An amusing film including thriller, noisy action, punches , and excessive violence with tongue deftly in cheek. This demystified as well as amible action movie deals with a man named Smith : Clive Owen takes care of a baby who he gets during a shootout. He joins forces a beautiful prostitute : Monica Bellucci and both of whom are mercilessly by a suspicious nasty : Paul Guilfoyle . Along the way chases and shootouts take place on and on until the unexpected finale . He isn't name , no past , nothing to lose. It's a better investment than a crib ?. I'm a British nanny, I'm dangerous .

A non-stop action movie with thrills , pursuits, mayhem, and lots of shootouts . A well-developed film with high quality , several surprises and nicely paced . A farcical and disconcerting action-comedy in which there are laughs , slapstick , violence, blood and gore. There are also various nutty roles and improbable happenings that wind out at a final apocalyptic . This violent as well as hilarious action movie is a sort of live-action equivalent of the cartoon series in Warner Bros style , adding action scenes with John Woo choreography . The surprising and twisted script besides having more than its fair scraps of funny lines , throws up sympathetic characters . Duo protagonists : Clive Owen and Mónica Bellucci are very well , while Paul Guilfoyle steals the show as the really baddy but likeable contender . And other secondaries in brief appearances as Stehen McHattie , Greg Bryk , and Daniel Pilon as Senator Rutledge . Nowadays, it is considered to be a cult fave of the early 2000s thanks to its twisted violence along with tongue-in-cheek humor .

The picture is finely amused and agreeable in spite of the high body count and gory events . Efficiently written and directed Michael Davis , though contains some repetitive scenes and eventually lost in camera trickery . Inexplicably, this Shoot'em up being his last one , and formerly making a few movies such as "Monster Man , 100 Girls, Eight Days a Week , Beanstalk and American Girls or Girl Fever" . Rating ; 7.5/10 . Worthwhile seeing . The flick will appeal to Clive Owen fans .

An irreverent send up of action movie cliches that also manages to revel gleefully in them. It's got Clive Owen completely drenched in dedication, its got a bad guy that can't even give a good monologue, its got guns that only need reloading when it's convenient, its got one liners that laugh in the face at the very concept of a one liner. It's got a dark sense of humour but in the same sort of way that something like South Park does; It's harmless, with creative action and some truly laugh out loud gags. It's an indie-rock response to the seriousness of Bourne and the veneered ugliness of Bond. It acknowledges the silliness of action with all its love and heart. And post John Wick, I'm thinking it's time for more. Shoot Em Up is the Garth Merenghi pastiche of action rather than the Scary Movie parody. This film is not for everyone but it is for me.

Given the choice, I prefer my action films to be as brutally realistic as possible, but if film-makers are insistent about going down the cartoonish violence route, they might as well go the whole nine yards, as in Shoot 'Em Up, a relentlessly OTT slam-bang actioner that starts out all guns blazing and doesn't call it quits until writer/director Michael Davis has thrown every possible crazy idea he can come up with onto the screen.

This wild, anything goes approach could be compared to the previous year's Crank, but unlike that film, which was crippled by unlikeable characters, unnecessary vulgarity and a glut of irritatingly showy editing tricks, Shoot 'Em' up remains a classy and often clever piece of film-making despite its highly preposterous plot: Davis's effective direction is cool and slick without resorting to migraine inducing visual gimmickry; stars Owen and Bellucci effortlessly ooze sex appeal and charisma, whilst Paul Giamatti, as ultra-vicious killer Hertz, is utterly loathsome; there are some inspired visual gags for the eagle-eyed; and the never-ending gun-play is both brilliantly inventive and absolutely blistering. Hell, the film even manages to deliver an ironic anti-gun message whilst all the bullets are flying and people are dying.

In short this film is everything Crank would dearly have loved to have been, and then some.

7.5 out of 10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.