here is my review for "Shoot 'Em Up" unedited by the record

Even if you’re only a moderate moviegoer, you’ve seen a good gunfight. Director Michael Davis knows that. However, in his new film, “Shoot ‘Em Up,” he poses an intriguing question you may not have considered: have you seen a gunfight whilst the hero is also busy delivering a baby?
This is merely the first scene and to give any more details away about the films numerous proceeding action scenes would spoil one of the two entertaining things the film has to offer viewers.
The first thing that “Shoot ‘Em Up” explores is just about every possible thing you could be doing when a gunfight breaks out. The other thing is just how many things can be done using a 9mm and an unlimited supply of clips.
I was reminded of the Simpsons episode in which Homer joins a gun club, buys a .35 7 and uses it to do just about everything, open a beer, get a basketball off the roof, etc. Shoot ‘Em Up takes essentially the same gag and extends it to about two hours with some pretty outlandish results.
Clive Owen stars as a mysterious bystander who saves a newborn child from a gang of ruthless gunmen. Unlike his character in “Children of Men,” Owen gets to have some fun while saving a baby from a hail of bullets, this time by turning an arsenal of his own ammunition on a slew of hapless bad guys.
Monica Belucci plays his love interest, a prostitute, and surrogate mother of the child. Paul Giamatti plays the villain. These roles will not win any of these actors any praise, but it is hardly their faults.
Davis’s script is so boring that only the most experienced actor could pull an interesting performance out of the lines given him. In this case it is Giamatti who plays a very fun and darkly humorous bad guy. Owen is his usual deadpan and sorely lacking in the mystique that shrouded past action heroes like Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson. As for Belucci, there are two obvious reasons why she was cast and they are displayed prominently throughout the film, so it would be unfair to judge her on any thespian level.
Obviously, a film called “Shoot ‘Em Up” is not meant to satisfy any sort of artistic intelligentsia. It’s a dumb action movie just like the title, so I’ll skip past the glaring complaints of how unrealistic the whole thing is and go straight to the point. Shoot ‘Em Up is overly violent, overly sexual and lacking in style. It simply does not live up to its recent predecessors in the genre of super-violent action flicks.
This is not a proud admittance, but I did develop a certain cinematic respect for films like Sin City, Kill Bill, and 300 whose visual stimuli were drawn not only from scenes of cartoony violence, but a unique stylistic vision, that used special effects not only to make people’s limbs fly off, but to create a context in which such ridiculousness seems plausible.
Davis claims he drew stylistic influence from Bugs Bunny cartoons, a reference that is not so subtle since Clive Owen eats a whole carrot every other scene and Giamatti is given lines like “you wascawy wabbit”. This could have been interesting if the references weren’t so blunt.
Despite the director’s commentary, the film still feels more influenced by more base media. Anyone who has played first-person-shooter video games like “Goldeneye”, “Time Crisis” or “Max Payne” will recognize Davis’s “artistic vision.”
The other annoying thing is that the plot actually involves an anti-gun element. This was probably meant to be cleverly ironic, but it comes across as clumsy and stupid. As stated earlier the only reason this film is entertaining is because it appeals to the male libidinal drive for excessive violence. A director willing to depict blood-splattering on such a scale should be honest about why the film is entertaining and not try to cover his reputation in liberal Hollywood by including an anti-gun bias. It feels hypocritical and silly to take any moral high ground about violence in America after action scenes that make shootouts look like a whole lot of fun. One of Owen’s lines in the film actually addresses the problem perfectly: “Don’t trust anyone who stands to profit from something, they’re the bad guys”. Maybe Davis should take that quote to heart. Maybe the only good thing “Shoot ‘Em Up” does is to inadvertently show the hypocrisy of human nature when it comes to violence. We are constantly speaking out against it, but as evidenced by the financial success that surround films like this one, it still fascinates us deeply.