Shoot Em Up
Smith finds himself embroiled in a complex political conspiracy once he aids a pregnant woman who is going into labor while being chased by a hitman. Edwards).After Smith kills the senator he is captured by Hertz who tries to get him to tell where the woman and child are. This got the attention of New Line Cinema CEO, Bob Shaye, who approved the project and accepted Davis to direct. Since July 2007, Shoot Em Up was publicized with a guerrilla marketing campaign by London based agency New Media Maze (designer Adam C.
Smith (Clive Owen), a drifter who appears to have an extensive military background and a fondness for carrots who wants nothing more than to be left alone. A plethora of elaborate gunfights ensue, between which Smith pieces together the real story: a United States Senator who strongly supports gun control had been breeding babies for their bone marrow to treat his cancer, and a prominent gun baron has contracted Hertz to kill the babies.
The Top Critics summary on that site gives the film a 57% ( rotten ) rating based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The film opened in fourth place for its first weekend, earning $5,716,139 from 2,711 theaters. He soon manages to escape and kill Hertz and returns to the baby and Donna.
The Senator would live (and presumably harvest the marrow from the baby) in exchange for abandoning his stance on gun control. Smith deduces during a meeting with the Senator that Hertz s contractor had made a deal with the Senator.
Bright, strategist Chris G.D. After the woman is killed, he takes the baby and goes on the run with a lactating prostitute named Donna (Monica Bellucci).
The unlikely family is trailed by the intelligent and ruthless Hertz (Paul Giamatti) and his army of thugs, determined to kill the baby. The film ends with him taking out a band of robbers who attempt to rob the restaurant where they are reunited. When writer/director Michael Davis s original concept was passed on by movie studios, he put together a 17-minute reel of animated footage, consisting of 17,000 line drawings, in order to give studio heads an idea of how the action scenes would play out.
Variety called the movie violent and vile in equal measure, and too stylistically audacious to dismiss outright. As of January 13, 2010, the movie-review aggregating website RottenTomatoes lists Shoot Em Up with a Tomatometer rating of 67% ( fresh ) based on 156 reviews, with an average critic s rating of 6.2/10. Shoot Em Up is a 2007 action comedy film The film was released on September 7, 2007. The film follows Mr.
The film has a total worldwide gross of $26,820,641. The movie was released on high-definition Blu-ray Disc and DVD formats on New Year s Day, January 1, 2008. . The campaign included a viral video and website Film critics views on the film were sharply divided.
