In the very first scene he kills a guy with a carrot and delivers a baby while casually shooting at bad guys. If you're taking it seriously then you're doing it wrong
BaTtLeFiElD ThReELMG Why put more context if you already understood my comment in the first place???(because you said grenades wouldn’t detonate if shot). Also how the hell was I supposed to know your comment was intended for Matt Gerish, if you didn’t even tagged him in the first place?!
Amazing how many people commenting don't get that this is purely satire interwoven with creative action scenes. Not a shred of it was meant to be taken seriously. I thought the movie was hilarious.
D Kay Home Alone.... Catchily cutesy as that yawn yapped "Ahhhhhhhhhhh" was circa '81, it's nigh impossible to imagine Mr. Culkin looking so much as believable in a gun fight.
I loved this much when I was a kid I probably watched like 15 times in my DVD player, now here I am trying to remember this relic. Also I love the first scene where they play nirvana, I didnt know that back then.
The absurdity of this movie crack me up. This is what a tough guy action movie should be. You won't see action scenes like these in Arnold's or Stallon's movies. Maybe Statham's. I just love this movie after seeing it again since released.
A brilliant, brilliant send-up! Nothing made me happier or more infuriated than the moment where he just improvises the employment of an already-jury-rigged tape-and-rope trap and kills everyone with perfect accuracy. Nothing ever works for me like that. I can't even make Krazy Glue stick things back together! This cat builds robotic gun emplacements out of cardboard and spit! x^P
Shoot Em Up was released in Sept 2007. Iron Man was released in May 2008. Spider-Man 3 was released in April 2007. Literally, neither of them would have had an impact on Shoot Em Up's box office. The only real competition it had at the time of its release was 3:10 to Yuma (released the same week) and Eastern Promises (which released the week after). Good films but not exactly blockbusters that were going to steal all of the attention from Shoot Em Up.
@fgtrdes Hammerson is a fictional gun brand. The Hammerson logo was laser grafted on a Para-Ordinance Nite-Tac after the Para-Ordinance logo was shaved off it by the armorer of the film to create the fictional gun company known as Hammerson.
wow half rambo and half punisher. one hellof a combo. I say he's half rambo because of all the traps he made and set up for this scene, and i say he is also half punisher because well his family was killed and he has the look as the marvel character
Also half Bugs Bunny. The direct of this even said the ENTIRE thing is meant to be a bloody and adult take on the Bugs VS Elmer Fudd thing. You got an extremely clever protagonist who loves his carrots and is never really phased by anything VS a balding/bald guy who is hunting him. They even have this line Smith: What's up, Doc? (bites carrot) Hertz: You are a wascally wabbit.
I was once sent to a prison for three days because of some immigration violation and there was nothing to read, nothing to play, nothing to do, nothing to see, until this movie came out on the TV screen hung on the wall and everyone sat there laughing their ass off. It was on a Saturday night and what a fucking relief that was!
+Mark K Yep the word dumb isn't strong enough. Guys firing SMGs at 3 metres can't hit shit, but random booby traps have perfect aim. Crap is the word I think.
you've got to be joking.... the movie is called Shoot Em Up starring Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti and an actress whose name I can't remember at the moment.
Ironically, the director of this movie said that it really had a non-ironic gun control moral/theme claiming that guns are the cause of all the problems in the film. In the words of Linkara (a critic who reviews comic books): "You can't have an anti-gun message, when you clearly used guns to solve your problem! It just doesn't work!"
+Jim Guppy He explain it later in the movie, most of the time they didn't shoot to kill. The bad guy even ask Smith if he didn't think it was strange that no one ever hit him.
