This was a movie I randomly picked up at redbox to watch with my dad. I had no idea what the hell it was and just picked it at random. To date, one of the best father-son movie times we've had.

I went to see this in theaters the weekend it released. Watching Clive Owen parachute out of a plane and hearing my Mom exclaim "Oh my god, now we're shooting people in the fucking SKY!?" is still one of my most memorable in-cinema experiences.

Clive Owen is so fucking underrated! I loved him in Children of Men. Another great movie is Blood Ties. It´s great.

"Guns don't kill people...but they sure help." Giamati was amazing this whole movie...I have never seen anybody killed with a carrot before. Brava

The best Bugs Bunny movie ever made.

i freaking love this movie!!!

Him- "I want this film to be guncentric!" Them-"Completely guncentric?" Him-"Well, maybe throw a carrot kill in there" Them-"........genius"

This movie really cemented my respect for Paul Giamati and Clive Owen. It's a great movie that I could see being of lower quality if not for the great actors involved, and I could easily see how people who had attained their status might see a fun action movie as 'beneath them', and it's great to see them both ham it up with such charisma.

This is what the Max Payne movie should have been. Just add a little noir and you're there.

Sat in the audience at Comic Con when they were promoting this and you could FEEL the excitement in the room. Everyone loved it, especially when they showed the same animatic you did, followed by the actual scene. The movie is a masterclass in action.

I really dug this movie when it came out and watched it several times on DVD, too bad it wasn't popular enough to spawn a series of flicks. Deadpool lovers would like this one too! I think...

This movie is sooooo over-the-top. There are so many "WTF" scenes, with the merry go round being one of the most ridiculous action scenes to put film. SEU is a blast and I recommend it to action junkies. As a bonus, the soundtrack is awesome.

One of my all time favorite action movies, and one of my favorite movies of all time. Between the clever use of the soundtrack, the brilliant editing, the incredible cast, the dialogue, it all just plays so well together. The poor reception does not surprise me, as when I went to see it in the theater I was one of only a handful of people. I never gave much thought to the Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd tie in, but then again as much as this is one of my favorites I haven't seen it since it was on the big screen. I recommend this to all my friends, and every one I even casually meet that says they like action films. Definitely an under the radar, hidden gem classic.

4:50 That Robo-Baby will haunt my nightmares.

Vastly underrated flick that should not have flopped at the box office. Loved it. Right up there with Running Scared, another film that should have done well at the box office.... yet the 50 Shades and Twilight movies do well. *sigh*

Shootem up is a masterpiece.

This movie was so fucking fun, man. I’m all for movies and shows that are very grounded and serious, but not every one of them needs to be and this was the quintessential example of doing that right. It didn’t take itself overly serious and never pretended it was, and you had a blast being along for the rollercoaster as a result. I wish the director hadn’t taken the disappointing box office performance as hard as he did. It still did alright, and putting that aside he showed he really had a great mind for camera angles and shot composition and the flow of action sequences playing out. Would have loved to see much more from him, but at least we did get this gem.

I distinctly remember one of my college housemates bringing this DVD home one night and telling the rest of us "I don't know exactly what it's about, but I hear the main character kills a guy with a carrot in the first 5 minutes". We went on to have a great movie night.

I remember really loving this movie when it came out but, to this day, I never heard anyone talk about it. Glad to see so many people loved it.

i saw this when its breezed through for a week because i had loved Monster Man and 100 girls. Owen , Belucci and Giamannti are amazing in it. I am going to have to watch watch it again now.

I freaking LOVE this movie, but I never saw it until I purchased it from a used bin at an old Hollywood Video (f*ck, I'm getting old). To this day, I lend that copy to coworkers and friends who haven't even heard of it, and every one of them has the same reaction "OMG this is so awesome!! How come I've never heard of this movie before?" Shame.

Saw this movie with friends in the theater. Cried from laughing so hard at this movie.

I remember buying this film on DvD because it was on sale in a FYE store when I was looking around at different movies. From my first watch I loved it for basically how ridiculous it was. It's an amazing film that any action film fan should love.

Just got it on DVD, one of my absolute favorite action films ever!

OMG, this, Drive Angry and CRANK were some of the BEST 2000s unsung Movies. Hard-core Henry and Polar are in the same spot in my heart

I did my part! I saw this twice in theatres and told everyone I knew how awesome it was. To this day in my top 3 favourite action movies.

He forgot to mention Clive Owen's character actually straight up kills a guy with a carrot. Lol

Shoot ‘em up was was of those films I loved when I was younger but everyone I showed it to didn’t seem to get it! I love how you never know when an awesome battle is about to break out and they always manage to surprise you can keep you thoroughly entertained. It’s just the perfect switch-off-your-brain action movie.

Clive Owen in this movie reminds me of the Punisher :D He would be a perfect Frank Castle!

I would love to see Smokin Aces next!!!'

I just watched this, in 2020. How in the HELL did I miss it until now?!?!

2:43 Bob Shay once said “Why would anyone In Their right mind make two movies? This is three films.” This was said to Peter Jackson during his pitch for the Lord of the Rings movie. This man knew what he was doing

My favorite aspect of this movie is the fact that it focuses on guns throughout but at the end reveal that it's actually about gun control. Basically an action shooter that's anti gun.

this is literally my favorite movie of all time

Shoot 'em Up kicked ass. I saw it in theatres back in 2007 and it was amazing. I'll later eventually buy it on Blu-ray Disc over a decade later. It sounded amazing in DTS-HD Master Audio.

Please do "The Big Hit" next. It's such a perfect good bad flick.

YES one of my favorite action movies

This movie is awesome, I just saw it and have been wondering why on earth Clive Owen hasn’t been casted as The Punisher before. He basically nailed it here!

Yup film is awesome

This is not only the greatest movie ever made, it it the greatest artistic achievement in the history of human endeavor. In my opinion

Subscribed the other day and lemme just say this "They decided to take it to New Line Cinema" seems to be the phrase most common with movies I loved from my childhood, love you channel dude.

This movie blew me away when it came out! I went in thinking it was another hyper cut edit style generic shooter movie. Instead I got a well edited gun ballet. Still one of my favorites.

One of my favourite recent action films. Bonkers from start to finish and all the better for it.

Ended up talking in depth with the director of this film, awesome guy who turned off on Hollywood cuz so few truly got his vision. Very well said here!

If all you want is your brain completely shut off in disbelief at the level of extreme nonsensical action, this is the movie, there is no movie that was more action packed into it. The amount of times you just sit there mouth wide open not sure if you should laugh or shut it off is amazing. It's a piece of art and has earned a spot in my top five movies. (In no order) -Strangelove -grindhouse -blade runner 2049 -incendies -shoot em' up

This is such an underrated masterpiece.

Shoot 'em Up is one of my favourite action movies! And what a great soundtrack!

HUGELY underrated!! Doesn't get any of the attention it deserves.

Thanks so much for Exploring Shoot 'em Up. I love love love this movie. Still don't understand the lack of love for it.

This and Hardcore Henry are the best paced action movies, they are the closest to the best action packed rollercoaster you can get. Once it starts it's one hell of a ride till the end.

Oh man, this is one of my all-time favorite movies to show people. I especially love it because they always have the same basic reaction every time. They spend the first half kind of enjoying it, but very puzzled and saying things like "I'm not sure if this is really great or really terrible." THEN the sex scene gunfight happens, and it just *clicks* and suddenly they love it. I'm almost glad that it's a little-known cult classic specifically because it's so much fun to show to people who have absolutely no idea what they're in for.

The developers of Saint's Row 3 claimed to blatantly steal from Shoot Em Up in several of the major action sequences.

I actually went to this COMIC CON panel and liked this movie's presentation. The director came out smiling doing the jump side ways dual akimbo finger guns jump shooting for the presentation (lol). He sounded really hot to trot about the movie and as GOOD BAD FLICKS explained he said doing a heavy duty gunfighting action movie was his dream movie to do and was really really really glad that NEW LINE CINEMA wanted him to do the movie. From the presentation, it seemed like Clive Owen (yes he was there) was gung ho about the project. The director did mention that he gave Owen creative control like they would do a scene then Owen would be like "well i did like that take but maybe I could do this instead of this in this specific scene instead to make this scene much better?" The director did give approval on the changes and it seemed like there were no director and actor spats during the shooting of the movie. I know as far as the music is concerned the person responsible for music editing (or whatever) did do music editing for movies before and yeah did get approval for the use of those specific songs for the movie as mentioned in 8:45 - 9:04. The director felt he was in good hands as far as the music editing side of things is concerned. I know for the shoot out in the air I know it was done via green screen but Clive Owen actually did get some training for it since they filmed it around one of those parachute training machines that keep you up in the air. Owen was at first skeptical about doing it but did eventually have a blast doing it. Sadly Giamatti wasn't there for the presentation but was good to know Owen and the director were there for it and were quite passionate for the project. I agree it's a bummer what was the fate of the movie because I liked it myself and saw it the opening week (not the comic con special preview though which some people liked and were all positive about the movie) and saw it a second time in theaters and own it on DVD. I felt like this was the best of the last of NEW LINE CINEMAS NEW LINE CINEMA'S movies before the merger with WB which happened sometime after NEW YEARS EVE (I think that was the title of that movie). Sadly that movie tanked. I agree it's a bummer to hear the director may of went into obscurity because I think he said at the presentation he wasn't doing financially well and he and his wife were living in a van before working on SHOOT EM UP I think? I remember a good majority of the presentation at that years COMIC CON. Frankly I was hoping to see more of the guy because I liked SHOOT EM UP.

I remember watching this as a teen. I thought it was the most amazing action movie I had ever seen at the time.

Hugely underrated and fantastic film, I laughed constantly during this movie.

My friends and I saw this film as part of a double-showing with Jet Lee & Jason Statham's War. We howled during Shoot Em' Up and by the time we got to War, we found it so incredibly boring, we stopped watching. I'm sure War was a good movie, but after the energy of Shoot Em Up, nothing else could follow it.

I actually love this film. I went into the theaters expecting just alot of crazy gunfights and that was it, and was not disappointed... and then Paul Giamati... easily one of my favorite performances he has ever done.

If only more directors had more stars like Clive Owen to help defend the director's decisions to the studio execs the world of movies would be a much better place.

You nailed it about the bad marketing. I remember when this film came out and gave it a miss because it looked so generic and bad. Luckily a friend made me watch it a couple of years later, because it's a really fun film.

Shoot Em Up is my favorite action movie of all times. Excellent and comedy in every scene. I loved it!!!!!

I saw this in theaters, still love it

The perfect ultraviolent action flick. Hugely underrated .

Exploring.. is by far my favourite series on KZfaq!

Saw this the same year it released (07) as an 11 year old and it has lived in my head rent free since then

One of my all time favorite action films. Excellent work as always, Cecil.

I've sung the praises of this movie AND director from opening day until the end of time! It's FANTASTIC! Great choice!

I keep meaning to pick that up on dvd/blu-ray, but I definitely remember digging it when I watched it.

I was working at Blockbuster when this released to video. I loved it and I spent the weekend recommending it. I had several customers complain upon returning their copies.

Saw this in theaters with my dad. Would love to see it again someday

My father took me and my brother to the movies to watch this work of art

I loved the lampshade-hanging moment when Giamatti says "Either this guy is really good, or we really suck". Such a brilliant film.

Probably one of my favorite movies ever. Seriously great. Honestly.. I ONLY want to see Giamati as a villian, he does it better than anyone.

I worked at a movie theater when this came out. lol I love it i spent half my time watching scenes of it as many times as I could. This and Crank are just favorites.

Hands down favorite action movie

You should check out a few other hidden gem films. First is Hardcore Henry, the FPS inspired action movie. Second is Bloody Hell, a movie that takes the Tucker & Dale vs Evil formula of cliche setup + non-cliche result but in a twist the results are more grounded yet funnier somehow. Third is Overlord, the surprisingly good Wolfenstein movie that isn't Wolfenstein.

Underrated fast paced masterpiece!

I've always thought this was the best video game movie ever made. Guns as tools feels like quicktime events from fast-paced platforming sections in things like Tomb Raider or God of War, the carrots as an "eyesight powerup" to improve accuracy or notice puzzle clues in the environment, the army of mooks to mow through so you feel like a badass. . .

this is a hidden gem, the only Film that comes close hard boiled, great film

Michael Davis is now having a campaign to back up his new movie. Hope he'll get it done at some point :)

Thank you for this! This is one of my favorite movies and it’s so criminally underrated. A live action Bugs Bunny cursing and killin Elmer Fudds henchmen... what’s not to love?!?

You totally missed the other _Bond_ reference! The Skydiving Gunfight is clearly a homage to _Moonraker_

This was actually John Wick before John Wick. The over the top shooter style was amazing. I don’t think audiences got it at that point.

I love what Giamatti said about striving to be hated. Similarly, the first movie I ever saw Kathy Bates in was Misery and I haaaaaaated her as a person not just the character (I was in high school, gimme some slack)! But then her sympathetic role in Titanic and Mama Boucher in The Waterboy humanized her AND I realized that I had fallen under her spell as a top-tier actor.

Okay, so, I've been waiting until I could find the best way to put this, but now I think I got it, so I hope you read this. I'm subscribing to your channel. Not because every video is a brilliant masterpiece that I agree with one hundred percent, but because I DON'T agree with every video. I love these because you defend movies that range from questionable bad to down right garbage. From Brilliant and underrated to respectable and overhyped. You see, I love how passionate you are about these films, you really seem to enjoy them. I don't get that from most reviewers and critics anymore, rather soulless reactions, mindless hate or blind praise. I love your channel for the same reasons I like Doug Walkers 'Honest Thoughts' videos more than his Nostalgia Critic ones- it shows a person just, talking about the ups and downs of a film, the work that went into it, the studio and directors influence, problems with the writing and actors, etc. It feels real, and I need that. I'm currently on the curricular track to writing scripts and storyboard, and so I NEED to maintain balance. I need reviews who I agree with and I need reviewers I disagree with, I need fans and haters in equal measures, because it forces me to look at a film fairly, draw a real opinion and remain capable of explaining WHY I hated the writing of MoS and BvS but liked The Avengers and Punisher War Zone. To be able to point out why despite being a overall BAD film, Dungeons and Dragons is one of my favorites and why, despite the overwhelming hate for it, I feel Fan4stic (horrible movie it was) could have been salvaged instead of being left as it was. Your channel gives me that. Plus, you're pleasant and actually talk about the literal making of the film instead of just the movie (Extra points from me for that). So yeah, I'm in, and hope your channel continues to grow, as I look forward to your next videos. Also, watch Book of Vile Darkness of you haven't already, it feels like the closest to a live D&D game and Verminlord is hilarious.

I knew nothing about this movie before I watched it. I was blown away....

Always love when you put up an Exploring vid. Keep up the great work.

Fun fact, the baby from Hard Boiled grew up to be Tomohiro Ishii

This was an awesome movie, and you really outdid yourself with breaking down the details here man :)

Thank you so much for this well-made research about a great film that needs more recognition.Even Roger Ebert did like this film giving it 3.5 out of four stars and he said "What elevates it from the depraved to the deserving is a sense of style, a sense of warped humor and the acting".

One of my favourite films in any genre

Severely underrated and VERY overlooked. I ONLY got to see it because I was at a blockbuster (lmao what's that?) and was in the mood for an action film and just kiiiinda took a chance and went with this.... I was immediately laughing at how absurd and entertaining the film is and a LOT of it for me, has to do with Paul Giamatti's performance in it. I have it on bluray and I'm VERY happy it was made, def a fantastic action fest with no bullshit in it.

When bad marketing kills your Movie!!! Clive Owen so should have been James Bond but the one upside of Craig getting that role is that we got THIS!

Love this film. His quote about blinkers is amazing

I just found a copy of this film on blu ray at my local dollar store for $3. Such an under rated action film, glad somebody else likes it.

This is one of my faves.

Consider doing "Titan A.E." It's awesome!

I loved this movie, and love it even more knowing all this stuff now. Well done.

People don't talk about this movie nearly enough.

I love this video. I loved the film already. So to see someone do it justice the way you did here, it's just a joy. If I could only see five films from each decade (not counting Dolph Lundgren movies), this makes the list.

Best shoot em up movie out there. Need more like this