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By Rebecca Murray, About.com Guide to Hollywood Movies since 2001

Review of the Action Comedy Shoot Em Up

Friday September 7, 2007
I'll probably get more angry emails over this review than any review I've written this year. I can read them now... "How can you give an A- to such a violent movie?" And then there will also be loads of, "Have you lost your mind? He's running around shooting people while holding a newborn baby!" I know, I know, I know. But you have to take this movie as it's intended. It's a comedy, people. The violence is so outrageously over-the-top there's no way to interpret Shoot Em Up as anything but a total tongue-in-cheek action flick. It never takes itself seriously should why should we? Shoot Em Up Review
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