Shoot 'Em Up (2007) (2007) poster
2007 · action · thriller · comedy

Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

Directed by Michael Davis1h 26m2007
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Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme action / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.

Our read · Shoot 'Em Up (2007) (2007) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · thriller · comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want ridiculous nonstop over-the-top action with guns, sex, and a baby.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditygraphic violencegorechild peril

Skip it tonightSkip if cartoonish ultra-violence or sex during firefights will annoy you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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