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Shoot 'Em Up | 2007 | R | - 8.10.6

Clive Owen stars as a hardboiled stranger who ends up helping deliver a baby, and decides to protect it from an army of assassins led by Paul Giamatti, who want to harvest baby bone marrow. Monica Bellucci costars as a lactating prostitute who's recruited to help with the rescue. Also with Greg Bryk and Jane McLean. Directed by Michael Davis. [1:33]

SEX/NUDITY 8 - A man is having sex with a woman, five men enter the room and shoot at them, and the man shoots the five men while continuing to have sex: They man and the woman roll around on a bed to avoid being shot, the man rolls back on top of the woman and shoots three of the five men, stands up carrying the woman, slams her against a wall, and shoots the other men while she moans (we see his bare back); he then says, "Now that's what I call shooting your load," implying that he climaxed while killing the five men.
 A woman in a schoolgirl outfit is seen on top of a man (we see her bare breasts and his chest) and it is implied that they are having sex. We see a woman on top of a man, thrusting and moaning (we see her bare breasts and his bare chest).
 We see a man in a diaper sucking a woman's bare breast, and a man fondles a dead woman's breast.
 A woman performs oral sex on a man: we see a man moaning behind a dumpster, and the woman's head is obscured by his unzipped pants.
 A man rips open a woman's shirt, and we briefly see her bare breasts, we see another woman's bare breast, we see a woman's bare breast from the side, and there are graphical representations of a woman's breasts during the end credits. We see several women in panties, bras, and assorted fetish gear, we see a picture of a woman in a bikini, and we see a poster of a woman in panties. A woman breastfeeds a baby and we see her bare breasts.
 A man and woman kiss, undress, and grope each other (we see the woman's bare back) and a man and a woman kiss in a few scenes. A man touches a woman's thigh, a man gets pleasure from burning a woman's thigh (he uses the hot barrel of a fired gun), and a man sucks on a woman's finger.
 We hear the sounds of multiple people having sex in a brothel. A man and a woman discuss and handle vials of sperm, a woman makes a suggestive remark about rough sex, and men talk about having sex with prostitutes, and
 A man helps a woman delivers a baby off camera.

VIOLENCE/GORE 10 - A man fires a gun and we see a close-up of a hole through a man's chest and see his heart beat.
 A man stabs a man in the mouth with a carrot (we see a bloody carrot exiting the back of the mans head). A man stabs a gunman in the eye with a carrot. A man stabs a man in the eye with a scalpel (spurts blood onto another man's face).
 There are many scenes of gunshot exchanges where many men are shot and killed; most of the shooting shows people flying backwards after shots to the chest or dropping guns after shots to the hands or spinning after shots to the shoulders.
 Many men are shot with a machine gun, two men are shot with a shotgun, many men are shot in the chest, men are shot in the stomach, men are shot in shoulder, a man shoots another man in the neck, a man shoots another man in the arm, a man shoots another man in the back, a man uses another man as a shield and that man is shot several times in the back, a man is shot in the hand, a man shoots a man in the thigh, and a man shoots a man in the wrist (causing him to shoot another man in the foot) and blood spurts from wounds.
 A woman is shot through the back (we see blood spurt from her abdomen), a man is shot in the chest and blood splatters on the wall, a man shoots a man in the stomach (we see a trail of blood), three men are shot and blood spatters on a wall, a man is shot with a shotgun and blood splatters on the wall, a man is shot in the head and blood spatters on the camera, a man shoots a man in the head and blood spatters on the wall and a man shoots at the camera. A man is shot several times in the stomach and he lies on the floor, bleeding. A man bleeds from his shoulder.
 A man shoots a man in the leg and a large amount of blood spurts out, and a man shoots a man in the leg and a large amount of blood spurts out. A man hits a man in the face with a gun, a man fires a gun, a woman is shown bleeding from a gunshot wound in the forehead, a man throws a gun at a man's head and there are many more gunshots and explosions.
 A man is having sex with a woman, five men enter the room and shoot at them, and the man shoots the five men while continuing to have sex: They man and the woman roll around on a bed to avoid being shot, the man rolls back on top of the woman and shoots three of the five men, stands up carrying the woman, slams her against a wall, and shoots the other men.
 A man shoots the umbilical cord of a baby, and blood splatters on a woman's face.
 A man is shredded by a helicopter blade and we see his dismembered arm. A man shoots a man's middle finger, and a man shoots off a man's ear (we see blood and the severed digit and ear). A man breaks two of a man's fingers (we see the deformed, broken fingers). A man smashes a man's hands.
 We see a woman dead in a pool of blood, and we see two women dead on the floor (we see pools of blood on the ground and bags of blood). We see three dead men, with gunshot wounds to the head, lying in pools of blood, and we see a man with multiple chest wounds, bleeding. A man kicks a man in the buttocks, and then shoots him in the buttocks.
 We see a man with a scalpel sticking out of his forehead, and he cuts his hand while removing it. We see bodies and body parts strewn about and some of the body parts are shown being eaten by rats. A man pulls a severed hand from his pocket.
 A man fires a gun then burns a woman's thigh with the hot barrel and he does this twice. A woman yanks a piercing out of a man's crotch (it is implied that it is though his penis and see blood on the piercing). A man breaks a man's thumb (there's no gore)
 A man driving a car is shot in the head and the car runs off the road. A man shoots a filing cabinet, which hits a man in the head. We see a man run over what appears to be a baby.
 Several men fall to their death, men are shown burying bodies and a man drags a dead body.
 A man fires a gun then burns a woman's thigh with the hot barrel and he does this twice. A man sticks his hand in a fire.
 A man breaks his fall by dropping onto a dead body. A man wipes blood from his hands onto another man's shirt.
 A man head-butts a man, a man punches a man in the face, two men wrestle violently, a man burns another man's hand with a blow dryer, and two men struggle over a knife.
 A woman spanks her child, a man spanks a woman and a man punches a security guard. A man is hit in the head with a car door. A woman slaps coffee out of a man's hand and it spills on his lap. A man grabs a baby by the arm. A man grabs another man and pushes him.
 A man shoots many times at a baby (the baby is not struck), and a woman fires a gun.
 Men in a car chase a man and a woman with a baby (they're on foot). Men in a car fire guns at another car, breaking glass, men drive around with a dead body in the back seat of a car, a man runs a car off the road and it smashes into another car, and a man crashes a car into a parked car.
 A man talks about the murder of a woman and child, a man says that violence is fun, and a man discusses harvesting babies for bone marrow.
 A pregnant woman moans in pain during labor, and a man moans in pain.
 A man with a knife threatens a woman, a man threatens to kill a pregnant woman, a man holds a gun to a man's head, and a man threatens to kill a man. A woman encourages a man to shoot a dog.
 We see an animal undergoing taxidermy. A dog licks blood from a man's face. A man shoves a dirty diaper into another man's face, and we see feces on a newspaper.
 There are graphical representations of guns, bullets, blood, and people shooting guns, bodies, and people falling to their death during the end credits. Gunshots are fired at the New Line Cinema logo during the opening credits.
 We see a man tied up with duct tape. Lions fight on a TV.

LANGUAGE 6 - 12 F-words, 3 obscene hand gestures, 6 scatological terms, 18 anatomical terms, 9 mild obscenities, 1 derogatory term for a British person, 6 religious profanities, 4 religious exclamations.

SUBSTANCE USE - A man washes down pills with alcohol and people in a bar are shown drinking.

DISCUSSION TOPICS - Organ harvesting, baby farming, loss of a parent, stillborn babies, loss of spouse, loss of a child, assassination, government corruption, vigilantism, the "greater good," mercenaries, escaping from the past, prostitution, greed, inconsiderate behavior, fetishes, violence, gun control.

MESSAGE - Government corruption and greed can have deadly consequences.

(Note: Much of the violence in this film happens with a baby on-screen.)

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