Poster from TMDB
Shoot 'Em Up
Sign in to save2007 film directed by Michael Davis
Film · TMDB
6.5A 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.
Cast
- Clive Owen as Smith
- Paul Giamatti as Hertz
- Monica Bellucci as Donna Quintano
- Stephen McHattie as Hammerson
- Greg Bryk as Lone Man
- Daniel Pilon as Senator Rutledge
Themes
- dying and death
- new love
- hero
- prostitute
- baby
- chase
- ball
- shootout
- hobo
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Ratings
IMDb
6.6/10
158,398 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
67%
Metacritic
49/100
- Year
- 2007
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Genres
- Action, Comedy, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Davis
- Written by
- Michael Davis
- Produced by
- Susan Montford Don Murphy Rick Benattar
- Starring
- Clive Owen Paul Giamatti Monica Bellucci Stephen McHattie
- Cinematography
- Peter Pau
- Edited by
- Peter Amundson
- Music by
- Paul Haslinger
- Production company
- Montford/Murphy
- Distributed by
- New Line Cinema
- Release date
- September 7, 2007 ( 2007-09-07 ) ( United States )
- Running time
- 86 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $39 million
- Box office
- $26.8 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- thriller film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Michael Davis
- Screenwriter
- Michael Davis
- Cast member
- Christian
- Composer
- Paul Haslinger
- Producer
- Don Murphy
- Production company
- New Line Cinema
- Cinematographer
- Peter Pau
- Filming location
- Toronto
- Duration
- 86
- FilmAffinity ID
- 489230
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.shootemupmovie.com
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 2007-01-01
- title
- Shoot 'Em Up
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 67%
Sources (10)
via Wikidata · CC0
~15 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Shoot 'Em Up is a 2007 American action film written and directed by Michael Davis and produced by Montford/Murphy. It stars Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci and Stephen McHattie. In the film, Smith (Owen), a drifter and former black-ops soldier, rescues a newborn from being killed by assassin Hertz (Giamatti) and his henchmen. Smith enlists the help of prostitute Donna Quintano (Bellucci) to keep the baby safe as he unravels the conspiracy.
According to Davis, the film's idea came after he saw a gun-battle scene from Hard Boiled in which Chow Yun-fat rescues newborn babies from gangsters. Desiring to make an action film centering on guns, Davis expanded the idea into a script in 2000, accompanied by an animated footage with 17,000 drawings for the action scenes. After a deal with New Line Cinema, filming began in Toronto. The music was composed by Paul Haslinger, while cinematography and editing were handled by Peter Pau and Peter Amundson respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shoot 'Em Up” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.