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If you ever want to see a movie with just a disgusting amount of guns, I’d recommend Shoot ‘Em Up, Clive Owen’s recent action packed (think industrial-sized trash compactor packed) flick. Oh, and if you like carrots, you should watch this too.

It’s a quiet evening in a shady part of town, and Smith, a one named kind of guy, finds himself in the middle of an intense situation as he sits at the bus stop eating his carrot. Unable to not get involved, Smith chases down a group of organized thugs who chasing a young pregnant woman who is about to give birth. The woman dies, leaving the baby in the improvised care of Smith. Unfortunately for Smith, those thugs want the baby dead too, thus leaving the ground littered with bullet casings and dead people. Paul Giamatti also stars.

Bizarre and outrageous as this movie is, it’s fast-paced, adrenaline inducing, and insane – in a good way. It sort of reminded me of Crank but better and more entertaining. Who knew Paul Giamatti could look so menacing? Apparently he plays a superb, and convincingly deranged villain, while Clive Owen manages his normal stoic charm. If this movie were an animal, it would be a hummingbird, spastic and hyper, but this bird would be on crack.

Serious action flicks, like war movies, don’t really do it for me, but I find that action films with comical undertones are highly enjoyable. Shoot ‘Em Up is funny, dark, and strange. When you watch, you have to be in it for the ride.