Shoot ‘Em Up (Blu-ray)

You know what I hate? A movie that doesn’t know it’s place in the scheme of things. A movie that tries to be the perfect movie for everyone.

I ventured into another very male-centric movie today: Shoot ‘Em Up on Blu-ray. And this movie understands exactly what kind of movie it is: this is the perfect shoot-first-and-ask questions-later movie.

I can best sum up this movie with one word: excellent!

It was a fairly short (about one and a half hours), but every moment of that was filled with Clive Owen sliding around, chewing carrots, and most of all, shooting hundreds of bad guys, constantly He kills at least two of them with carrots, as well as anything else around him when he runs out bullets.

The movie is purely visual, so watching it in Blu-ray really adds quite a bit to the presentation. Seeing the ridiculous gore and fun fight scenes in the more detail helps a lot with immersion.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not purely a mantastic movie: he is, after all, protecting a baby the whole time! But really, while there may be a baby and a tad bit of ridiculous romance, don’t think that this movie is meant to appeal to anything but your heist-loving, gun-firing self, cause it isn’t.

I haven’t had this much fun at a movie since Planet Terror. Rent it, watch it, and enjoy it.