Clive Owen really is every man's action hero for the Naughties. Men want to be him and women want to sleep with him. Lately If Clive Owen touches something it turns into something rather special. Look at Closer and Children of Men - Both very clever movies with very clever casting and very clever directing. Shoot em Up is the same - cast by Diedre Bowen - this clever little casting agent gets Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti (Sideways) and Monica Belluci (every Italian Boys wet dream as well as the rest of the global male population) on board. With this sort of casting - I'm excited that Diedre Bowen will be doing the casting to the upcoming feature film of Max Payne. Michael Davis the director someone you wouldn't normally trust to pull off a good movie - his debut was back in 1994 - the very bad Double Dragon movie (I had such high hopes at the time!) However, Davis has finally emerged from the abyss and has pulled off something very special here. Yeah it's a lot of shooting (hence the title) but what you get is far better than what you expect. It's fast paced with some highly original gun fights - each shoot out is memorable (ridiculous yes - but memorable). For a fast paced comic book violent movie you can't go wrong than spend 90mins watching Shoot Em Up!
Review of Shoot 'Em Up
Shoot 'Em Up
(2007)
Shoot em Up - Finally Hollywood has the balls to make something funny
15 February 2008