i sit in the darkened theatre ponder this question represent if the 7 teenager in front of me be have such a great time and why wasn not i. be i miss something here . do i not get it . i come to the conclusion a the credit roll and that i get it alright . it just do not work . i glance at the kid in the rise light look like they just get off a roller coaster and and i understand . i be not a teenager . this be more of a kid movie than any of the so called kid movie i saw this year . stardust be an adult orient fantasy . ratatouille have distinctly adult orient humour that no doubt go over most kid head . yet a film that be suppose to be adult and die hard 4 . 0 and be aim directly at the kid . and now this and the kind of movie i would have lap up at 15 or so . it have everything i would have want back then represent gunfire and swearing and booby and bad pun and lot of blood and increasingly gory death . oh and and er and lactate hooker . this be a film that be decadent and racy for the sake of it and possibly to have it pre pubescent audience snigger at the use of a rude word . there be those who would frivolously use the word atire to describe this film . shoot em up do not even come close to be that deep . in the end and it just become a pale imitation of the folly it poke fun at . the plot be non existent . i expect this much and only i half expect for there to be at least a thread to hold it all together . i be wrong . instead and it have different variation on that cinematic darling and the gunfight . we have gunfight while eat carrot and death by carrot and fire a gun with a carrot and gunfight during sex and gunfight while birth and gunfight while parachute and gunfight with no workable finger with which to fire ( that where the carrot come in again ) . imagine if you will and an e. entertainment special and top 1001 movie gunfight and you have shoot em up . it try to be desperately clever and wind up be desperately generic . some be even pretty well construct and but others and the majority and instantly forgettable . there no character development to speak of and which again and i expect and but these people be literally make of cardboard . how can an audience be expect to be thrill by a gunfight if they do not care about anyone in it . furthermore and the script be so full of cringe worthy line and it hard to see why writer michael davis may have think he be be clever when write them . clive owen mythical charisma be lose on me . i see him at his best in small film such a croupier or child of men in which he actually play a character and but so far his blockbuster role have be disappoint . his king arthur be about as stale a they come and his deadpanning in this role feel force and unenthusiastic . paul giamatti look like he have fun chew the scenery and but chew the scenery be all he do and try a he might to be menace and he fall short of create any kind of tension . director michael davis bring u some teen comedy early in the decade such a 100 girl and girl fever and neither of which impress me due to their complete immaturity and their utter tastelessness and compare even to the like of tomcat . shoot em up have do nothing to change my mind about his work . thanks to girl fever and i will never be able to think about clint howard the same way again . so and to sum up and a gormless mess of action sequence and star the almost james bond with less plot than a michael bay extravaganza and a large abundance of carrot . movie need a certain amount of substance to survive . this have none . a waste of time and money .