Resembles a Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner episode doused with blood, gore, torture ... and absolutely nothing for kids.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 27, 2020

Far from being a spoof on the genre, Shoot 'Em Up is an action movie with the flab removed - with no more than maybe ten minutes of exposition, you're left with a series of interconnecting money shots, each one more gooey than the last.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 9, 2011

Merrily amoral, shamelessly watchable and outlandishly funny, Shoot 'Em Up is not for all tastes, but those with a dark sense of humor will have a ball.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

Say what you will about Bugs Bunny, at least he never needed a backstory.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 1, 2008

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 18, 2008

...a wildly over-the-top and mostly entertaining thriller...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 25, 2008

Clive Owen is ideally cast as the likeable loner (with a tragedy in his past, of course) whose self defence and killing efficiency is declared with deadpan delivery.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2008

...painfully uncool one-liners, a flat performance from Clive Owen, a disgusting job by Paul Giamatti and a plot that reveals itself to be idiotic.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Mar 3, 2008

Shoot 'em Up dispenses with plot, character development and coherency, but it's a blast all the same.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 4, 2008

...essentially just one long chase sequence that becomes much too monotonous much too soon.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 9, 2008

After about an hour, though, it all becomes a mind-numbing barrage.

Full Review | Jan 3, 2008

One can certainly be amused and entertained by writer-director Michael Davis's hyperbolic action frolics -- I was -- but not without feeling pretty low and stupid.

| Jan 3, 2008

...arguably the best-directed movie of the year.

| Jan 3, 2008

...an affectionate, often very funny Simpsons parody of its whole eponymous genre. It's a live-action McBane as co-directed by Quentin Tarantino and Chuck Jones.... Shoot 'Em Up is Hot Fuzz gone to the Dark Side.

| Jan 2, 2008

In its essence it's nothing but a violent live action Bugs Bunny cartoon and I dug it.

| Dec 22, 2007

Uma versão idiota de Filhos da Esperança.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2007

It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning.

| Nov 3, 2007