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Shoot Em Up
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Melissa
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Jan 28, 2008 05:58PM

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I love Clive Owen and over-the-top wham! bam! action movies however implausible they might be, but this movie stinks to heaven. The dialogue wasn't funny, the action was absurd, and I kept cringing the whole time whenever the "baby" was grabbed, pulled, pushed, and dropped in the scenes.
Obviously I'll watch Clive in anything since I saw this movie and Derailed. Blech.


I think it was intended more as a parody of shoot em up films than anything else, very much all done tongue in cheek style. What'd you think of Paul Giamatti as the evil bad guy? That alone is pretty funny casting.
As for Clive Owen, this film had me thinking of his role in Sin City quite a bit for some reason. It's also a violent tongue in cheek kind of film in many ways.

