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September 07, 2007

Shoot Em Up

** stars (out of four)Shoot Em Up movie review

Director Michael Davis makes the transition from straight-to-DVD stinkers to the bigscreen in conspicuous fashion, with an action movie that is violent and vile in equal measure. When hitman Paul Giamatti is dispatched to assassinate a pregnant woman, not-so-innocent bystander Clive Owen intervenes on the baby's behalf, unleashing a firefight of epic proportions. Good taste is the first fatality in this gonzo thrill-seeker, sure to offend mainstream dispositions, yet too stylistically audacious to dismiss outright. Like Running Scared and Boondock Saints before it, shamelessly sordid pic, which opens Sept. 7, will likely fall short theatrically but find its audience on DVD.

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Posted by Peter Debruge at 09:48 AM | Comments (0)