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(1 - 42) of 42 OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh Page   1   "a sometimes hilarious, sometimes eye-goggling reductio ad absurdum of the action flick to its barest kinetic essentials - like one of those porn compilations of money shots, only in a different genre."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel B+ "Simultaneously a spoof, throwback, and tribute to the ballets of violence that precede it, Shoot 'Em Up is the guilty pleasure of the year."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3.5/5 "(Y)ou gotta love the primal potency of Shoot 'Em Up. It's been a long time since any movie has made such a strong connection to our cave dweller cravings."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron F "If there's a Hell, an honest-to-God place of eternal torment, Shoot 'Em Up would make the ideal introductory video, promising a lifetime of anguish to come."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "a giddy, deranged, pumped-up theme park ride in Bullet Land"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin B ""Shoot 'Em Up" belongs to the "Transporter"/"Smokin' Aces" school of modern western grindhouse cinema."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "But by the time it's done with all the "phallic mumbo jumbo," the movie doesn't seem to be saying much that's new."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2.5/4 "...it's certainly impossible to deny the effectiveness of the three central performances."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair D "Witless misfire."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "Ridiculously violent, comically bloody and so over-the-top that one can only view it as a cartoon that just so happens to be live-action. As for the says-it-all title, it is truth in advertising taken to the extreme."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B+ "Within the genre of baffling, what-the-hell-is-this? movies, Shoot 'Em Up is a fine specimen."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "The method to the madness behind Shoot 'Em Up is etched in stone from a surreal popcorn perspective drenched in cynicism and silliness."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C+ "Viscerally exciting, but without a brain in its head...like an outstanding ten-minute audition reel repeated nine times."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2.5/4 "Drinking the full adrenaline-with-a-wink cocktail might be too much, but there's nothing wrong with sampling it."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 10/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 6/10 "You might be able to say you had a good time watching it -- but felt dirty about it afterwards."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 3/4 "This hyperkinetic, ultra-violent, guns-a-blazin' actioner from writer-director Michael Davis can be accused of many things - stupidity, misogyny, the death of American film as we know it - but false advertising is not one of them."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 5/10 "...essentially just one long chase sequence that becomes much too monotonous much too soon."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2/5 "Watching Shoot 'Em Up was akin to watching latter-day Saturday Night Live: I could tell what they meant to be going for, but the comedy just fell flat flat flat."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.0/4.0 "The cast alone makes it worth seeing this semi-serious satire of cowboy diplomacy action flicks."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/5 "it's really nothing more than Charlie's Angels 2 all over again... with Clive Owen and a fetish prostitute instead of three young, hot chicks."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr 3/4 "Not only riffing on John Woo's Hong Kong flicks but cranking up the action until it becomes quite literally a madcap cartoon."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C- "...clunky dialogue, a patchwork plot and a poor turn from sexpot Bellucci take the air out of this exercise. A couple of cheesy set pieces may be amusing, but on the whole Shoot 'Em Up is a bore."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "It's funny without being toothless, adrenaline turbocharged without being mean, and utterly deranged in the best sense of the word."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3/4 "Badass, unabashedly malicious fun."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "[A] gloriously deranged orgy of Bugs Bunny-style action and nonstop gunplay..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "Forget style over substance; the style is the substance here, and it's hard to complain when it's all, quite simply, so much damn fun."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 3.5/4 "Shoot 'Em Up is filled with ingenious moments. This movie is seriously cool."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Writer-director Michael Davis has stripped the action movie down to its essence in a mind-blowing mash-up fueled with testosterone, adrenaline, and weapons-grade explosives."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 2/4 "Getting worked up over Shoot 'Em Up's excessive bloodshed is playing right into its hands."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3/5 "Uma versão idiota de Filhos da Esperança."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 3/5 "Indeed, the entire movie can be seen to exist on the comic ultraviolence spectrum that began with Bugs and Elmer's arms race from The Rabbit of Seville"   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3.5/5 "With a thunderous pace and an outrageous level of violence and mayhem, this film blasts its way onto the screen, as the title suggests, dragging its reluctant hero into a series of increasingly ludicrous set pieces."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "Shoot 'Em Up contains several ridiculous sequences, all freshly-minted classics, in which physics are bent, exploited, and flat-out flushed down the toilet."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves "Rock out with your **** out!"   Stranger Song   Rob Humanick B+ "The best guilty pleasure of the summer... arriving just a couple of weeks too late."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "This movie has got both sex and violence. What more do you want? A plot that makes sense?"   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten "The sum of the movie's exploding parts adds up to nothing -- not even just good, sick fun."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 6/10 "Offering frenetic, absurdist, over-the-top violence, it's a silly, smarmy, shell-shocked live-action cartoon."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 5/10 "The real problem is that 80 minutes of essentially non-stop action...are eventually wearying"   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3/4 "A former storyboard artist, Davis orchestrates the film's nearly wall-to-wall action sequences with breakneck precision and exhilarating verve -- the more outrageous the mayhem, the better."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 7/10 Read review   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo  (1 - 42) of 42 OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh Page   1