Shoot Em Up

Precious little worth watching at the cinema, so I thought I'd watch something
I didn't get round to watching last year.

This is an offensively stupid film. By which I mean, it's frickin' awesome. The
plot, such as it is, is that some bad guys want to kill a baby, and a down-on-
his-luck good guy happens to be in the way, and decides he's not going to let
them. But that's by the by. It's an excuse for an extended sequence of
gunfights, each more implausible than the last. And that's ok, because they're
plainly meant to be implausible.

So, this film is aimed at people who find stupid, bloody gunfights funny.
That'd be me then. And they are stupid, they are bloody, and they are very
funny.

Interspersed between the gunfights, the good guy and the bad guy crack bad
jokes at each other, and there's a romantic plot involving Monica Belluci.
That's mostly an excuse to have a gunfight that's also a sex scene, though,
which is funny.

I don't know who this Michael Davis guy is who wrote and directed it is, but
he's obviously a huge fan of Robert Rodriguez, and a lot of it owes obvious
debts to both Sin City and Desperado. He obviously had a real fun time making
it, and good luck to him on that. I had a lot of fun watching it too.