Shoot 'Em Up

For pure gonzo gunplay and action movie overkill, this gloriously absurd spectacle is the most fun I've had in ages. Clive Owen is just your average, carrot-munching, rogue special-forces killing machine who happens to be in the wrong place at the right time, specifically a grimy street where sleazy assassins are trying to murder a pregnant woman, and becomes the unlikely babysitter and bodyguard to a newborn that has been marked for death. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't matter. Owen has the brooding charisma and tough-guy heroism needed to sell his constant defiance of the laws of physics and logic, and Paul Giamatti has a blast overacting up a storm as the hit man heavyweight whose armies of hired killers are sacrificed in the cause. Monica Bellucci is definitely convincing as the walking dairy dispenser of a hooker dragged into the chaos to wet-nurse the infant. Director Michael Davis never takes it too seriously and never lets the momentum falter. Features commentary by Davis, the director's original animatics (animated storyboards), a making-of featurette, and deleted scenes among its supplements. Also available in Blu-ray format.