Heaven Hi!!!Let’s have a cup of coffee. Do me a favor, and “Shoot ‘Em Up,” will ya? Thank you.

Some times you feel the need to get off the “Sleepless in Seattle,” movie treadmill, and watch something with a few explosions, a little sex, and a Friekin’ lotta shooting.

In the film “Shoot ‘Em Up,” Clive Owen plays a man named Smith who never, ever stops firing his guns. His character is a borderline villian/hero as his trigger happy nature doesn’t make everyone happy. However, he is still a humanities character, complimented by fair amount of power, and equally balanced with sexuality. You will probably find in this film that his film that his guns do most of the talking. Owen constantly fires them two at a time, leaping across rooms — bam! bam! bam! — in glorious slow motion, and even in the middle of the sky, after plunging out of a plane without a parachute. Not your typical day at the grocery store.

Smith, in other words, does exactly what you’d expect the hero of a bloody, trashy, volcanically depraved action movie to do. He just does it a little bit … more so, and that’s the rollicking good joke of “Shoot ‘Em Up,” which has the inspiration to send up over-the-top action movies from” Tango & Cash” to “Die Hard” by nudging their slam-bang kinetic overkill right to the breaking point — but not past it.

Michael Davis, the writer-director of “Shoot ‘Em Up,” recognizes that the action genre long ago devolved into knowing self-parody. The signature taglines, the nonchalant perfection of the heroes’ bullet-blasting moxie — all of this is so stylized it’s already a joke. Clive Owen plays Smith as the classic megaplex loner-nihilist, a Bogart-meets-Bruce Willis with a heart of gold, and he does it absolutely straight, which is really the ultimate wink. Smith’s “lovable” trademark is chewing on carrots, like a film-noir Bugs Bunny. (He also uses them as weapons.) He teams up with a hooker, Monica Bellucci, otherwise known as, the godess of sexuality, who helps him to save an orphaned infant. Belluci’s steamy interaction with Owen creates a chemistry which elevates both of their sexuality that comprises 25% of this film.

Paul Giamatti, as the villain, is funny as he is psychotic. The ultimate power character who uses his negative disposition in an attempt to dominate is arch rival, Clive Owen. A movie hard to fall asleep to, Shoot ‘Em Up is an electrifying, pulse pumping, action movie that is easily predicted to go into your dvd collection. Using the Acting For Real book you will start to understand the cheif components that these characters are based off of, and understand the triangle that make up human behavior.

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Be BOP!!!

Thom