SHOOT 'EM UP Film Review - 10/10/07

More or less a continuous gunfight from beginning to end with some exceptional footage of a car crash that has to be seen to be believed!! Clive Owen plays a loner dragged into a conflict over a missing baby he is trying to protect - up against chuckling hitman Paul Giamatti and his band of rent-a-thugs trying to take him and the child out. Throw Monica Bellucci into the mix as a lactating prostitute and it goes from one improbably scene onto the next. Guns full out blazing as bodies pop, squirt & crunch in a cartoon wonderland of blood, guts & carrots. The ketchup is splattered from one end of the screen to the other as bad guys get shot to shit with all variety of weapons. The muted tones and bleached colours add to the cartoon effect and this brainless entertaining ride comes off more as a piss-take than anything else.