Damn this movie kicked ass! You need to get up right now and go see it, especially since its days at the multiplex are numbered. Imagine all the best parts of all your 
favorite mindless stylized action flicks packed end-to-end for 80 adrenaline pumping minutes and you've got the idea behind Shoot 'Em Up. You know what you're in for during the first two minutes of the movie when Clive Owen's character, Mr. Smith, kills some bad dude with a carrot... that's right A CARROT. This badass Bugs Bunny in a trench coat then goes on an oil-slick rampage that makes The Transporter look lethargically paced. The premise is absurd. Mr. Smith is a grumpy bum waiting for a bus when he decides to play good Samaritan to a a pregnant lady being chased by a guy with a gun. The guy with a gun is just one of many guys with guns, lead by Paul Giamatti's uberassassin, who seem intent on killing this lady and her baby. Turns out Mr. Smith is some former black ops superfighter who knows a thing or two about kicking ass, and mayhem ensues... for 80 minutes. The incredibly hot Monica Bellucci shows up as a hooker with a maternal instinct, but all you really need to know about her character is that she makes a shoot-out-while-having-sex possible. Again, completely absurd. Owen and Giamatti play their characters to over-the-top perfection, taking this film from excess for the sake of excess into the realm of satire. Every action scene, which is pretty much the entire movie, has repeat "holy sh-t" moments where you don't know whether to laugh, scream or applaud the stuntmen. In sum, go see this movie, go see it now, you'll be glad you did.
favorite mindless stylized action flicks packed end-to-end for 80 adrenaline pumping minutes and you've got the idea behind Shoot 'Em Up. You know what you're in for during the first two minutes of the movie when Clive Owen's character, Mr. Smith, kills some bad dude with a carrot... that's right A CARROT. This badass Bugs Bunny in a trench coat then goes on an oil-slick rampage that makes The Transporter look lethargically paced. The premise is absurd. Mr. Smith is a grumpy bum waiting for a bus when he decides to play good Samaritan to a a pregnant lady being chased by a guy with a gun. The guy with a gun is just one of many guys with guns, lead by Paul Giamatti's uberassassin, who seem intent on killing this lady and her baby. Turns out Mr. Smith is some former black ops superfighter who knows a thing or two about kicking ass, and mayhem ensues... for 80 minutes. The incredibly hot Monica Bellucci shows up as a hooker with a maternal instinct, but all you really need to know about her character is that she makes a shoot-out-while-having-sex possible. Again, completely absurd. Owen and Giamatti play their characters to over-the-top perfection, taking this film from excess for the sake of excess into the realm of satire. Every action scene, which is pretty much the entire movie, has repeat "holy sh-t" moments where you don't know whether to laugh, scream or applaud the stuntmen. In sum, go see this movie, go see it now, you'll be glad you did.Shoot 'Em Up - 3 PB Jars
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Hot Fuzz is also a must see, and is quite a bit funnier than Shoot 'Em Up. But, for non-stop entertainment, my vote goes to Shoot 'Em Up, which is analogous to watching the last 20 minutes of Hot Fuzz on repeat. Catch it in the theatre before it disappears!
using the british spelling makes me sound all "classy-like".
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