Shoot Em Up

Owen Gleiberman

Michael Davis, the writer director of Shoot Em Up, recognizes that the action genre long ago devolved into knowing self parody.The signature taglines, the nonchalant perfection of the heroes bullet blasting moxie all of this is so stylized its already a joke. ( Read More )

Derek Adams

This is seedy, morally defunct, low IQ cinema for airheads: its toe curlingly violent and mostly plain nasty, but quite fun in a debauched kind of way. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

What elevates it from the depraved to the deserving is a sense of style, a sense of warped humor and the acting. ( Read More )

Short enough so that its thin premise doesnt run out of steam, this tongue in cheek action comedy thriller both lampoons gratuitous action movies while offering sufficiently exciting (and gratuitous) set pieces in its own right. ( Read More )

Tim Grierson

Merrily amoral, shamelessly watchable and outlandishly funny, Shoot Em Up is not for all tastes, but those with a dark sense of humor will have a ball. ( Read More )