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After about an hour, though, it all becomes a mind-numbing barrage.

-Christy LemireFull Review

One can certainly be amused and entertained by writer-director Michael Davis's hyperbolic action frolics -- I was -- but not without feeling pretty low and stupid.

-Jonathan RosenbaumFull Review

...an affectionate, often very funny Simpsons parody of its whole eponymous genre. It's a live-action McBane as co-directed by Quentin Tarantino and Chuck Jones.... Shoot 'Em Up is Hot Fuzz gone to the Dark Side.

-Mark BourneFull Review

It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning.

-Stephen HunterFull Review

The most audacious, implausible, cheerfully offensive, hyperactive action picture I've seen since, oh, Sin City, which in comparison was a chamber drama.

-Roger EbertFull Review

A big bloody disappointment.

-Richard Roeper

The sum of the movie's exploding parts adds up to nothing -- not even just good, sick fun.

-Stephanie ZacharekFull Review

For mainstream audiences, its whiplash pacing, frenetic camera work and offhand manner toward blood spillage probably will be disturbing.

-Claudia PuigFull Review

If John Woo had directed a Bugs Bunny cartoon written by the creators of South Park, the result might be something like Shoot `Em Up, but with a crucial difference: Bugs Bunny cartoons were always less than 10 minutes long.

-Geoff PevereFull Review

Even more distressing is the presence of Owen and Paul Giamatti. I understand the concept of working as much as possible while you're hot, but it's a slippery slope.

-Ruthe SteinFull Review

You know Quentin Tarantino is probably over the hill when he can be so parodied with such deadly precision in Shoot 'Em Up.

-Lou LumenickFull Review

This is likely the fastest-moving intentionally funny action movie ever made.

-Jack MathewsFull Review

Over-the-top doesn't begin to describe Shoot 'Em Up's set-pieces, most of which are undeniably entertaining.

-Kevin CrustFull Review

Like Quentin Tarantino without the aesthetic posturing, the film is giddy with pop references -- and embraces the sloshy fun of exploitation genre-tweaking...

-Amy BiancolliFull Review

Bang. Bang. Bang-bang blood, blood, blood. There, you've seen the movie.

-Tom LongFull Review

The ultimate target audience will undoubtedly have the added benefit of libations.

-Terry LawsonFull Review

Shoot 'em Up will become, I suspect, some kind of legend in the murky depths of extreme action.

-Roger EbertFull Review

It's a cocktail made up of three parts testosterone to one part brains.

-Ty BurrFull Review

There is no wisdom or critical acumen in evidence in Shoot 'Em Up, however. Just 100 or so cool scenes masquerading as a movie.

-Stephen ColeFull Review

Shoot 'Em Up is a witless, soulless, heartless movie that mistakes noise for bravura and tastelessness for wit.

-A.O. Scott

Deliriously tasteless and shamelessly entertaining, Shoot 'Em Up is the guiltiest pleasure of the year.

-Colin CovertFull Review

With its absurd anti-gun "message," the film certainly could be called a satire, yet it remains firmly within the genre it is satirizing.

-Kerry LengelFull Review

For sheer audacity and adrenaline-fueled carnage, Shoot 'Em Up hits its target pretty much dead on.

-Steven ReaFull Review

I get it that as soon as graphic novels or video games are invoked as references in a movie, we're all supposed to chuckle indulgently at the content. But I refuse to relinquish my right to be repelled by this nasty piece of work.

-Dana StevensFull Review

Really, this thing is pretty rank.

-Michael PhillipsFull Review

The most amoral action film since Crank.

-Roger MooreFull Review

Everything about this neo-noir version of an Itchy & Scratchy marathon is casually ludicrous, right down to its back-handed advocacy of - wait for it - gun control.

-Gene SeymourFull Review

Drinking the full adrenaline-with-a-wink cocktail might be too much, but there's nothing wrong with sampling it.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

Smith, in other words, does exactly what you'd expect the hero of a bloody, trashy, volcanically depraved action movie to do. He just does it a little bit...more so, and that's the rollicking good joke of Shoot 'Em Up

-Owen GleibermanFull Review

This wet dream for action junkies leaves out logic and motivation -- you know, all the boring stuff.

-Peter Travers


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