History Film / ShootEmUp

* SexInASharedRoom:

** [[spoiler:Forensic behavior consultant. My god, how many times do I have to tell you guys? Details make all the difference in this business.]]

** In the commentary track, it is suggested that the reason he's always cleaning his gun is because he uses it for... stuff. [[{{Squick}} Yeah, non-gun-related activities.]]

Fun fact: According to WordOfGod, the very premise of the movie is inspired by the climax of ''Film/HardBoiled'', where Creator/ChowYunFat guns down hordes and hordes of mooks while holding a baby. The filmakers took this concept and expanded it to 86 awesome minutes, which became the movie ''Shoot em'up''.

Fun fact: According to WordOfGod, the very premise of the movie is inspired by the climax of ''Film/HardBoiled'', where Chow Yun-fat guns down hordes and hordes of mooks while holding a baby. The filmakers took this concept and expanded it to 86 awesome minutes, which became the movie ''Shoot em'up''.

* ChildrenRaiseYou

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Is it ever.

* LudicrousGibs: The finale of the parachute scene.

** Please. This turns into Dakka: TheMovie. It is in fact [[FanNickname nicknamed]] Guns: TheMovie, what with more than 200 firearms used.

* FingerlessGloves: Smith wears a pair of these.

The film exists to show gunfights in every conceivable situation, from high-speed chases to [[CoitusUninterruptus mid-sex]] to mid-''skydiving''. The plot is secondary to [[AffectionateParody meta-humor]] and ''really'' over-the-top action sequences. No, we mean '''''really''''' over-the-top. Creator/RogerEbert commented: "''I may disapprove of a movie for [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief going too far]], and yet have a sneaky regard for a movie that goes [[CrossesTheLineTwice much, much farther than merely too far.]]''" By one count, Smith kills over one hundred and twenty people over the course of the film.

* VillainousValor: Hertz may have a load of reprehensible character traits but cowardice isn't one of them. He joins his men on all the raids, faces down Smith with no fear and never backs down or tries to flea from danger.

** [[spoiler:Before he dies, his wife calls him and tells him she's leaving him.]]

* FamousLastWords: Subverted. [[spoiler:Smith tells the 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.]]

* InfantImmortality: Do we need to tell you? Averted for the two other babies.

Fun fact: According to WordOfGod, the very premise of the movie is inspired by the climax of ''Film/HardBoiled'', where Chow Yun-fat guns down hordes and hordes of mooks while holding a baby. The filmakers takes this concept and expands it to 86 awesome minutes, which becomes the movie ''Shoot em'up''.

* [[HeroicResolve Villainous Resolve]]: Hertz is a grade A asshole, but he pulls himself up off the floor after taking !four! bullets in the chest, an obviously critical wound, and stands up for the final showdown with Smith.

* SeanConneryIsABoutToShootYou: Smith is about to shoot you with GunsAkimbo.

Fun fact: According to WordOfGod, the very premise of the movie is inspired by the climax of 'Film/HardBoiled'', where Chow Yun-fat guns down hordes and hordes of mooks while holding a baby. The filmakers takes this concept and expands it to 86 awesome minutes, which becomes the movie ''Shoot em'up''.

* PlatonicProstitution: Hiring a lactating prostitute to take care of a newborn baby. The "platonic" part disappears after they have sex and even before that it's clear they have a mutual attraction.

* PlatonicProstitution: Hiring a lactating prostitute to take care of a newborn baby.

* ScreamingBirth: Justified when you've got a shootout taking place all around you, including hot cartridge cases dropping onto your belly. It doesn't help when the man helping with the delivery elects to cut the umbilical cord with a point-blank gunshot.

* SmartGun: Mr. Hertz equips his men with pistols equipped with thumbprint sensors.

* NonResidentialResidence: Smith lives in an abandoned tenement, which naturally becomes the scene of one of the movie's many gunfights. Later, he stashes DQ and Oliver inside a Sherman tank in a war museum, to make absolutely sure they'll be safe from the army of thugs coming after them.

* CountingBullets: When Hertz is torturing Donna, he shoots to heat up the barrel of his gun. When Smith comes in to save her Hertz points his gun at him, and Smith notes that he's hasn't got anything left. Hertz however has been counting the rounds Smith has fired up to now, so he knows Smith is out too.