Product Description

Clive Owen Paul Giamatti and Monica Bellucci star. Also included are deleted scenes making of the film 15 minutes of writer/director Michael Davis' original animatics and more!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/CRIME UPC: 794043112331 Manufacturer No: 1000035231

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1281 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2008-01-01
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Digital Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English, Italian, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 86 minutes

Amazon.com
Every action movie has a moment so over the top you have to laugh; Shoot 'Em Up consists of nothing but these moments. A carrot-eating, lone wolf kind of guy named Smith (Clive Owen, Children of Men, Inside Man) steps in to protect a pregnant woman from a gunman--and finds himself, with the aid of a lactating prostitute (Monica Belluci, The Matrix Revisited), defending the newborn child from a sleazy contract killer Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti, American Splendor, Sideways) and his army of thugs. That's pretty much the plot, but story is beside the point. Writer/director Michael Davis (Monster Man) has a keen sense of what matters in an action movie. The rapid-fire editing is scrupulously coherent; you always grasp what happened in every shoot-out, even if it flagrantly violates the laws of physics or basic plausibility. Explaining how Smith survives a four-story fall--even if that explanation is beyond ridiculous--demonstrates both a sense of wit and a winking respect for the audience's imagination. As a result, Shoot 'Em Up is ten times more entertaining than the likes of Transformers or Rush Hour 3, movies so self-satisfied with special effects or movie stars that they forgot to be fun. (Shoot 'Em Up's only weakness is a sliver of misogyny, the one action movie cliche that it's not clever enough to transcend.) --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Movie: 3.5/5 Picture Quality: 4.5~5/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 Extras: 3.5/5
Studio: New Line (Warner)
Version: U.S.A / Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
VC-1 BD-50
Disc size: 49,922,711,344 bytes
Running time: 1:26:32

Movie size: 21,361,367,040 bytes
Total bit rate: 32.91 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 25.29 Mbps
DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 24-bit

PiP Secondary Encode (BonusView)
Movie size: 15,161,554,944 bytes
Total bit rate: 23.36 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 21.95 Mbps
DTS 2.0 255Kbps 24-bit

Subtitles: English SDH / Spanish

Special Features

#Audio Commentary
#Ballet of Bullets: Making Shoot Em Up (HD, 53 minutes)
#Animatics (HD, 23 minutes)
#Deleted Scenes (HD, 8 minutes)
#Shoot Em Up Trailers (HD, 7 minutes)

Pass the Ammo and the Carrots
Shoot 'em Up is an over-the-top homage to 25+ years of action movies. Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) is a carrot-munching stranger who just happens to observe a pregnant woman being hunted down by a bunch of thugs. He springs into action, killing the thugs and saving the baby, but losing the mom. As is instantly apparent, Smith is no ordinary hero--he is a Special Ops killing machine who just happens to be at the wrong place at the right time. The rest of the movie involves Smith trying to get the baby to safety and unravel the mystery of what is going on. All the while he is pursued by the relentless & evil Mr. Hertz (Paul Giamatti), who, in Smith, has inexplicably found an adversary that matches him.

This movie is loads of fun, but is definitely not to be take seriously. It somehow manages to glorify gun violence while preaching gun control. To achieve this feat, the writers squeeze in every cliche imaginable (for example: not only was Smith's family murdered, he unknowingly sold the guns to the man who killed them). Despite the cartoonish nature of the violence (especially Mr. Smith's lethal skills), both Owen and Giamatti are great in their roles and some of the lines they deliver are instant classics. Giamatti is surprisingly effective as the hen-pecked bad guy, a welcome turn from his traditional roles. All in all, a great movie to watch if you're willing to stop thinking for 90 minutes or so. Its also a great advertisement for the benefits of eating carrots (which I've started doing).

OUTRAGEOUSLY UNBELIEVABLE ACTION SCENES. Non-stop shooting. Absolutely nonsense.
It oontains OUTRAGEOUSLY UNBELIEVABLE ACTION SCENES. For example in one scene, Clive Owen shot his hand gun continously with a carrot pressed down on the trigger! The shooting is non-stop. It's absolutely nonsense. In my opinion, it's fun to watch once.