SHOOT 'EM UP
Year: 2007
USA: Screen Gems
UK: Entertainment Film Distributors
Cast: Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Stephen McHattie, Greg Byrk, Daniel Pilon, Sidney Mende-Gibson, Lucas Mende-Gibson, Kaylyn Yellowlees, Ramona Pringle, Julian Richings, Tony Munch, Scott McCord, Wiley M Pickett, Stephen R Hart, David Ury, Mike Rad, Andy Mackenzie, Laura DeCarteret, Ryan Finn, Maria Vacratsis, Suresh John, Jay Reso, Jane McLean, Dave Van Zeyl, Layton Morrison, Joanne Leach
Director: Michael Davis
Country: USA
USA & UK: 86 mins
USA Rated: R for language and sexual content
UK Certificate: 18 contains strong bloody violence
USA Release Date: 7 September 2007
UK Release Date: 14 September 2007
Synopsis
SHOOT 'EM UP is a wildly edgy and inventive action movie with a dark sense of humor which promises to take audiences on a non-stop high-speed ride.
Clive Owen portrays Mr. Smith, the angriest, most hardboiled man in the world, who finds himself entrusted to protect the most innocent thing of all - a newborn child. When Smith delivers the baby in the middle of a gunfight, he soon discovers that the infant is the target of a shadowy force that has sent a team of mysterious and endless assailants, led by Hertz (Paul Giamatti), to erase all traces of the baby.
Amid a hail of bullets and facing every conceivable permutation of gunfight, Smith teams up with a prostitute named DQ (Monica Bellucci) to solve the mystery as to why the baby's life is being threatened before this makeshift family all ends up on the wrong side of a bullet. Everyone wants the baby dead. The big question is why?