Entertainment Ave! The Movie Theater - A movie review of Shoot 'Em Up.

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Starring:	Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci
MPAA Rated:	R
Released By:	New Line Cinema
Web Site:	www.shootemupmovie.com
Kiddie Movie:	You shouldn't introduce guns into your kids life via this film.
Date Movie:	Only if she gets the wackiness of over-the-top gunfights.
Gratuitous Sex:	A fabulous scene surrounded by gunfire.
Gratuitous Violence:	Duh.
Action:	Duh.
Laughs:	Lots of chuckles, smiles, and grins as each scene seems a little more over-the-top than the previous.
Memorable Scene:	Too many to narrow it down to one, but the sex scene and creative use of oil scene were fun.
Memorable Quote:	Hertz: "My God, do we really suck or is he that good?"
Directed By:	Michael Davis
Produced By:	Susan Montford, Don Murphy, Rick Benattar

Clive Owen is Smith. We aren’t really sure if it’s Mr. Smith, but it doesn’t really matter. There he is, minding his own business, hanging out at a bus stop eating a carrot, when a pregnant dudette, in labor, runs by, well, at least as much as a woman in labor can run by. She’s being chased by some dude, intent on killing her, so Smith does what most men won’t do: He enters the gun fight, delivers the baby, creatively cuts the umbilical cord, tries to save mom, but ends up on the run with a newborn. Suddenly Smith finds himself in the middle of this wacked-out story of growing babies for a bone marrow transplant, a candidate for President, and a gun manufacturer.

Anyway, needing help feeding the kid, Smith enlists Donna (Monica Bellucci), a lactating prostitute who lets her mammary glands feed the wacky fetishes of some wacky dudes, only now she will actually be in the mom role.

But none of that is important, really, because the main focus of the movie is simply Smith doing everything he can to keep the baby alive mostly by shooting lots and lots and lots and lots of dudes hired by Hertz (Paul Giamatti) to kill the baby, and now Smith.

Smith slides across the floor shooting people. Smith repels down a rope gunning down dozens of dudes coming up the surrounding staircase. Smith is having sex with Donna and shoots all of the bad dudes while still working to give her the big O. Smith shows that sometimes you shouldn’t be wearing a seat belt, especially when the crash will propel you into the van of the bad dudes so you can shoot them. Smith shows Hertz that those foolproof guns that have a thumbprint sensor to shoot aren’t foolproof. And finally, Smith shows his uncanny ability of using string and pulleys to create booby-traps for the biggest of boobs.

All I can say is if you thought Neo shot a lot of people in "The Matrix," he’s got nothing on Smith.

In case you didn’t get it yet there is a lot of shooting in "Shoot ‘Em Up" and as long as you get that, you might have as much fun as I did watching the movie. The dialogue is as cheesy as most of the gun-battles are over the top, and Paul Giamatti is sadistic as hell and totally creepy in his role of Hertz, especially when he starts feeling up this one woman.

I think there will only be two camps in terms of liking "Shoot ‘Em Up," the camp that totally hates the movie, and the camp I’m in, totally enjoying it. The movie gives new meaning to the song "It’s Raining Men" (which I think they should have used as part of the soundtrack), and who knew the versatility of the carrot.

I’m giving "Shoot ‘Em Up" 4 ½ stars out of 5. You might leave hating the movie, and I understand that, but tell me you didn’t at least chuckle at Hertz’s old joke about why a gun is better than a woman?