Shoot Em Up

Finally saw this flick.

When it was good it was great, but it was pretty bad in the in betweens. The action is the highlight, of course, but the one liners are horrible. I know that is the point, but...

I know that a lot of one liners in action movies are stupid, but movies with nothing but shitty one liners are usually the shitty action movies. Each action classic has at least one or two line that hit. Shoot Em Up has no memorable dialogue.

Weird that I nit pick the writing, but that's kinda what I do. Let's continue with the negatives: this film doesn't look all that nice. Kinda blah. Don't remember any of the music either.

I do remember a lot of the action beats. Which is the most important part. I remember shooting with the carrot. I remember the baby on the playground, the hideout shootout, the gun warehouse shootout. There is some crazy inventive stuff in here. Enjoyable crazy nuttiness. And the bad guy is a real scumbag. And I like the protagonist's hatred of jerks and douchebags.

So while I wasn't blown away by Shoot Em Up, but I'm glad I finally saw it.

Man! The text on this MacBook screen is tiny!