Shoot 'Em Up (2007) on Netflix
Smith, an ex-black-ops soldier, rescues a pregnant woman chased by a hitman and delivers her baby during the gunfight. He asks Donna Quintano, a prostitute, to keep the newborn safe.
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Plot summary
Late at night in a rough part of town, a pregnant woman flees a hitman and runs past a bus stop where Smith, a drifter and former black-ops soldier, is sitting. He kills the gunman, then more armed men arrive, led by Hertz, and the woman goes into labor. Smith delivers her son during the shooting; the mother is shot dead and he escapes with the baby. He leaves the infant in a park, hoping someone will take him in, but a woman who walks past is shot by Hertz's sniper. Convinced that Hertz wants the child dead, Smith turns to Donna Quintano, a prostitute, and asks her to look after the newborn.
Cast
- Sidney Mende-Gibsonas Baby Oliver
- Lucas Mende-Gibsonas Baby Oliver
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Two UK advertisements showing Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti holding guns were banned in November 2007 by the Advertising Standards Authority, which called them offensive and insensitive to families affected by gun crime.
- Clive Owen insisted on performing most of his own stunts, and for the skydiving scene he was strapped into a safety harness made by Cirque du Soleil.
- Michael Davis assembled an animatic of the action scenes himself using a Wacom tablet and the iMovie app, originally as a hobby, and it became the pitch animation he used to land a producer.
- Davis got the idea for the film from a scene in John Woo's Hard Boiled where Chow Yun-fat rescues newborn babies during a gunfight, and wanted it to be a gun-heavy version of Run Lola Run.
- Davis cast Paul Giamatti, normally a "nice guy" actor, against type as the villain to dodge the stereotype of a physically imposing antagonist and to get the role's duality.
