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Tarfumes.com - Shoot 'Em Up
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Starring: Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794043112331
Format: Anamorphic
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Running Time: 86
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-09-07
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Editorial Reviews:
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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:Â ACTION/ADVENTURE/CRIME UPC:Â 794043112331 Manufacturer No:Â 1000035231
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Summary: Got Milk? Got Carrots?
Comment: The first time I watched this film I didn't like it very much. It held my interest, but I didn't care for the wafer-thin plot. And those are diet wafers. But I watched it again with the audio commentary by writer/director Michael Davis. He pointed out some of the elements that I had missed, and my interest picked up.
The jerry-rigged plot has Mr. Smith (ably portrayed by Clive Owen) injecting himself into a conspiracy to murder a very pregnant woman. Hordes of heavily armed bad guys are hunting her. Smith ends up caring for her newborn child. The movie becomes a series of gunfights in which some 130 (according to the commentary) bad guys fall to Smith's super-sharp shooting. The gun battles contain elements drawn from James Bond, Dirty Harry, Lethal Weapon, and the countless other flicks that feature a good guy who can shoot taking on legions of bad guys who can't. On top of this, Davis makes it all surreal by developing fantastic scenarios with a Rube Goldberg twist.
The stunning Monica Bellucci adds a certain ... warmth as she plays a lactating prostitute who really cares. She proves with Mr.Smith that people can attain a satisfying climax under the most trying conditions. Paul Giamatti is the heavy (Hertz) who reminds me of Orson Welles gone to seed.
There are some disgusting elements like a graphic depiction of what could happen when a gun falls into a filthy toilet and Hertz's "interaction" with a corpse.
In my opinion, if you take away a few disgusting scenes and tighten up the plot, this becomes a great movie.
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Summary: Mchstokes Rewiew
Comment: This was an exciting movie from start to finish. It really was a shoot them up
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Summary: Shooting Blanks
Comment: If this is supposed to be a homage to the Hong Kong action genre then John Woo should feel a little slighted. This flick is of little discernible style and no substance. The over-the-top action is boring, the plot is convoluted, and the constant stabs at humor drop like a thud. The usually dependable Clive Owen cannot even save this turkey. He has to work overtime to stave off embarrassment. But, then, Clive can pick and choose his own projects so you can't imagine what drew him to this one. Paul Giamatti lays an egg as the film's heavy. Be careful, Paul, or people will forget that you made good flicks like "American Splendor" and "Sideways". Monica Bellucci as the requisite femme fatale is the only performer here to make a visceral impact. The hilarious love-making scene between her and Owen is about the only time this film engaged me. Otherwise, this flick is a complete waste of brain cells and not in the good way that some popcorn flicks are.
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Summary: Movie: 3.5/5 Picture Quality: 4.5~5/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 Extras: 3.5/5
Comment: 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)
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Summary: Pass the Ammo and the Carrots
Comment: 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).
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