shoot em up be you tire of all those heartless and senseless and generic and cliché and action driven hollywood film . that honor style and blood over character and plot . well then i have news for you represent do not go see shoot em up . but it a shame that you would not . the film whose trailer i point to and say that what film making have come to these day while all attitude and no heart and turn out to be the most fun and riotous satire i have see in a long time . shoot em up a relentless and simultaneously energize and hilarious movie be a surprisingly smart confection . a conceive by writer director mike davis it an over the top send up of every action film ever make while a wink and a nod ( as well a a parody of ) to the bloody overkill of die hard and rambo and the gleeful excitement and charm of indiana jones and the cornball abandon of james bond and the who care of north by northwest and the heroic terseness and ease of bourne and the ultra stylized and preposterous overdrive of the matrix or anything ever make by john woo ( particularly a love for hard boil ) and and even in one scene the splendid lunacy of raise arizona . the whole project and through control chaos and witty abandon and be make a a single and continuous in joke . a in most film that take themselves too seriously and clive owen hero ( enigmatically title mr. smith ) quite literally never stop shoot . he shoot while have sex and he shoots while in the middle of free fall and he shoot the umbilical cord off of a baby and he shoot with his finger break . davis take over the top to a whole new level while poke fun at action movie by take their ridiculousness to it brinking point . everything be do with an intentional preposterousness . for no reason smith take the baby of a dead woman ( whom he help deliver . in a frenetic shootout nonetheless ) and decide to protect the infant from paul giamatti ( drop his nice guy smugness and and superbly play his diabolical villain with maniacal glee ) and his army of goonish gunman ( why be they even after it . ) . for no reason and smith just happen to be the world great gunslinger ( he doesn not miss while he doesn not break a sweat . in fact the whole movie owen play smith a the ultimate joke represent with a straight face . same expression for kill and sex and talk and anything ) . the enigmatic coincidence of it all be only part of the film joy ( and when it begin to explain some it element and that where it go wrong ) . mostly it about the cartoonish and endlessly inventive shootout while each stag with more ludicrous precision than the last . it both funny and exceptionally film while the dialogue another homage to the stupidity of action film ( among smith witty remark represent eat your vegetable he lament after impale a man with a carrot ) . and what be an action film without ( besides a huge body count while a beautiful woman who do no more than look hot and talk sexy kudos to monica bellucci ) quirk for it hero . smith be all caricature with a few cartoony peeve . for one he hat a lot of thing ( include bad driver ) and but more importantly he have a fondness for carrot ( they make your eyesight well he growl ) while he even turn them into weapon . shoot em up do all that it can to be every kind of action movie . and it succeed while stag endless fight after fight in every way imaginable and never repeat itself and quite literally end with a bang . positive i hate ponytail . they do not make you look hip and young or cool shoot em up .