Let's get one thing out of the way here from the very start because I think it is one thing that all viewers can agree on whether you liked this film or not it is utter nonsense. Turning to a lactating prostitute for help, Smith remains a target for an increasing number of killers under the instruction of violent family man and contractor Hertz.
He flees with the infant but finds that the target is none other than the baby itself.
He defends her honour and, in the ensuing gun battle, he delivers her child just before she is shot. Smith is minding his own business when he sees a heavily pregnant woman being pursued by an armed man. In short this film is everything Crank would dearly have loved to have been, and then some. Hell, the film even manages to deliver an ironic anti-gun message whilst all the bullets are flying and people are dying. This wild, anything goes approach could be compared to the previous year's Crank, but unlike that film, which was crippled by unlikeable characters, unnecessary vulgarity and a glut of irritatingly showy editing tricks, Shoot 'Em' up remains a classy and often clever piece of film-making despite its highly preposterous plot: Davis's effective direction is cool and slick without resorting to migraine inducing visual gimmickry stars Owen and Bellucci effortlessly ooze sex appeal and charisma, whilst Paul Giamatti, as ultra-vicious killer Hertz, is utterly loathsome there are some inspired visual gags for the eagle-eyed and the never-ending gun-play is both brilliantly inventive and absolutely blistering. U.S.Given the choice, I prefer my action films to be as brutally realistic as possible, but if film-makers are insistent about going down the cartoonish violence route, they might as well go the whole nine yards, as in Shoot 'Em Up, a relentlessly OTT slam-bang actioner that starts out all guns blazing and doesn't call it quits until writer/director Michael Davis has thrown every possible crazy idea he can come up with onto the screen. A good flick too!!Īrmy of Darkness (This is my BOOMSTICK!!) My buddy bought a mosin sniper and a k98 sniper because of Enemy at the Gates. Yeah, Me too, :o But I blame some of that on John Woo also!! The Killer, Hard boiled, The Replacement Killers, etc. My first handgun was a Beretta 92,fell in love with it as a kid after seeing Mel's character with it in the original Lethal Weapon. That's because it kept changing from a Glock to a Sig, I guess the prop guys weren't paying attention. Things like this are in all movies, even in bourne ultimatum he somehow cocks back a hammer on a glock when pointing it at someone. Makes me so angry i cant enjoy the movie. Tom Selleck had his done by custom gunsmiths. Since no replicas were available at the time, I believe all his were done by prop companies. He's done several movies with cartridge converted percussion guns. They were also much expensive than the new guns too. These were produced in the few years between the War of Northern Aggression and the first cartridge guns of the 1870's. I didn't think it was authentic until I started researching it.
That's a great scene! It was a cartridge conversion on the 1858 Remington. Truth be told, I've never seen a blackpowder gun like that. Heat, Last of the Mohicans, Collateral, Miami Vice, they were all as authentic as he could make them. He used the same guy to train the actors for the Miami Vice movie. It's rather typical of Michael Mann's movies. The training really paid off and Cruise did all his own shooting in the movie. Tom Cruise did a great job Every time I watch it, I have to watch that alley scene several times. The ex-SAS guys name was Mike Gould if I remember correctly.įorgot that one. Tom has some positive thanks to say about training with a 'real weapon' and the SAS guy had some positive things to say about Cruise. Also Collateral with Tom Cruise, he was trained by an ex-SAS guy and I think it showed in how he handled his weapon.
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