History Film / ShootEmUp

* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics - The ending takes this to a new level - [[spoiler:a robber gets taken out by Smith positioning his buddy on the floor with bullets, and shooting his arm to shoot the robber behind cover.]]

** Briefly considered ''my ass''. It was down to just between him and Daniel Craig, and the [[ScrewedByTheNetwork lesser man won]].

* LampshadeHanging: "Do we really suck? Or is he ''really'' that good?"

* LiteralAssKicking: Done by Hertz to a henchman near the beginning of the film.

* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Oliver's mother, who is pretty and got a headshot.

* CarFu - Smith's temporary road rampage, and [[spoiler:feigning throwing Oliver to bait Hertz. And the vault into the van to kill a vanfull of mooks.]]

* CarFu - Smith's temporary road rampage, and [[spoiler:feinting throwing Oliver to bait Hertz. And the vault into the van to kill a vanfull of mooks.]]

* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics

* CarFu - Smith's temporary road rampage, and [[spoiler:feinting throwing Oliver to bait Hertz.]]

* ActionHero: Mr. Smith, who can kill a man not just with a carrot, but ''with a gun minus use of his fingers.''

--->'''Hertz:''' ''* totally astonished* '' Fuck me [[ActorAllusion sideways]].

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Monica Belluci's character, who, to protect baby Oliver, will [[spoiler: give a John head to buy him a bulletproof vest.]] Smith quips, "makes me think you'd do to get him into the right school."

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Monica Belluci's character, who, to protect baby Oliver, will [[spoiler: give a John head to buy him a bulletproof vest.]] Smith quips, "I'd love to see what you'd do to get him into school."

* RefugeInCool: Pretty much the entire point of the film, and metahumor. Given how over-the-top it is... it actually kind of ''works''.

* StrawmanPolitical: The liberal strawman political is [[spoiler:thinks he's destined for the White House, and sells out his beliefs to save his own life. To be slightly fair, the Conservative strawman just blackmailed him into loosening up his gun laws.]] The conservative strawman does bad things with great relish and apparent enjoyment, and monologues about how guns are great because they let cowards feel powerful. So one strawman's a little more overstuffed than the other.

* StrawmanPolitical: The liberal strawman political is [[spoiler:a literal baby murderer and thinks he's destined for the White House. To be slightly fair, the Conservative strawman just blackmailed him into loosening up his gun laws.]] The conservative strawman does bad things with great relish and apparent enjoyment, and monologues about how guns are great because they let cowards feel powerful. So one strawman's a little more overstuffed than the other.

* StrawmanPolitical: The liberal strawman political does bad things... but only because he's desperate. He feels intensely guilty over it, and in the end [[spoiler: begs to be killed so that his death can help outlaw guns]]. The conservative strawman does bad things with great relish and apparent enjoyment, and monologues about how guns are great because they let cowards feel powerful. So one strawman's a little more overstuffed than the other.

* FamousLastWords: Subverted when Smith tells the [[spoiler:Strawman liberal politician how his (the politician's) death will create the sympathy needed for his gun control legislation to pass. When the politician starts to speak in resigned, but dignified agreement]], he is KilledMidSentence.

* FamousLastWords: Subverted when Smith tells the [[spoiler:Strawman liberal politician how his (the politician's) death will create the sympathy needing for his gun control legislation to pass. When the politician starts to speak in resigned, but dignified agreement]], he is KilledMidSentence.

Mr. Smith (Owen) is waiting for a bus, when he decides to follow a gunman, who is following a pregnant woman, with murderous intent. He kills the gunman and his fellow {{Mooks}}, saving the newborn, but not the mother. The Mooks' boss, Mr. Hertz (Giamatti) continues the attempted infanticide at every stop. Smith enlists a lactating hooker (MonicaBellucci) to take care of the baby, who Mr. Smith names Oliver, while Smith fights Hertz and tries to find out who wants the baby dead and why.

* ChekovsGunman - [[spoiler:Senator Rutledge appears on TV while Smith is checking channels in his slum.]]

* ActionHero: Mr. Smith, who can kill a man not just with a carrot, but ''without use of his thumbs.''

*** Semi-justified by [[spoiler: Hertz having taken several bullets into the area around where the final shot hit

* CarFu

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - '''[++ Is it ever++ ].'''

* [[DoubleEntendre "That's a six-shooter. I just counted six shots. You've blown your load."]]. In a whorehouse, no less.

* ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask - Mr. Smith enters a gunfight [[CoitusUninterruptus without stopping having sex with DQ]].

* FamousLastWords: Subverted when Smith tells the [[spoiler:Strawman liberal politician how his (the politician's) death will create the sympathy needing for his gun control legislation to pass. When the politician starts to speak in emphatic agreement]], he is KilledMidSentence.

** [[spoiler:The last shot blows a hole in Hertz's chest, lungs expanding and all visible.]]

* MrSmith is obviously not the hero's real name; the BigBad even lampshades him as TheManWithNoName who rides into town on a pale horse. Hertz thinks he's worked out [[MysteriousPast who Smith is]], but isn't completely sure right up to the end. [[spoiler:His end.]] What he does get is a tragic past and his real last name.

* StealthPun: Monica Belluci's character is named DQ. [[spoiler: Dairy Queen.]]

* TakeThat: The very first gun that Smith uses in the movie, a Walther PPK, jams, and he calls it a "piece of shit." Clive Owen, the actor who plays Smith, was briefly considered to play JamesBond in ''CasinoRoyale''. Take a wild guess what Bond's weapon of choice used to be...

* WithThisRing: Smith slips the trigger guard of a pistol over Monica's finger with obvious symbolism.effects matter much.

* HypocriticalHumor: After Hertz [[spoiler:discovers the "Oliver" he ''ran over in the street'' is a fake]], he flips out and asks, "Oh, that is twisted. That sick son of a bitch!"