Smith sees an article about Senator Rutledge, a Democratic presidential candidate who favors stricter gun laws. Smith booby-traps the facility with an array of firearms, allowing him to kill the thugs and escape. He also notices that Hammerson owns a German Shepherd dog named Duchess. Smith infiltrates the Hammerson factory, and hears Hertz and Hammerson saying that they do not want the next president to repeal the right to bear arms. He brings Donna and Oliver to a war museum and hides them in a M24 Chaffee tank for safekeeping.
While they are having sex in a motel room, Smith and Donna are attacked by masked men Smith notices that his assailants' weapons are Hammerson models, unavailable to the public. Above the club they discover an apartment with medical equipment and two dead, pregnant women Smith concludes that the women were all impregnated with one man's sperm in order to give birth to matching bone marrow donors. Pursued by Hertz, Smith shoots his way out of the hideout, and he and Donna head to a nearby club. Taking Donna to his hideout, Smith realizes that the baby (whom he names Oliver) stops crying when he hears heavy-metal music he concludes that Oliver's mother lived near a heavy-metal club. Having secretly worn a bulletproof vest, however, Hertz is alive albeit wounded. After a brief confrontation, Smith shoots Hertz and leaves with Donna and the baby. Hertz soon arrives at the brothel and tortures Donna for information Smith returns and kills Hertz's henchmen. Realizing that Hertz is trying to kill the baby, Smith saves him and tries unsuccessfully to leave him with a prostitute named Donna Quintano. Leaving the baby in a park, Smith hopes someone will adopt the child, but a passing woman is killed with a shot from Hertz's sniper rifle. Pursued by Hertz, the woman is shot dead Smith narrowly escapes with the newborn. As more thugs, led by a ruthless man named Hertz, arrive, the woman goes into labor and Smith delivers her baby boy during a shootout. Following them into a warehouse, Smith kills the hitman by stabbing him in the face with a carrot and retrieves the woman's pistol. Despite a mediocre commercial performance (recouping less than its budget), critical reception to the film was largely favorable.Īt a bus stop in a rough part of town, a carrot-eating drifter and military veteran named Smith sees a pregnant woman on the verge of giving birth while fleeing a hitman. The film was photographed by Hong Kong cinematographer Peter Pau.īefore its September 2007 release, the film was previewed at that year's San Diego Comic-Con and received a positive response. After a deal with New Line Cinema, filming began in Toronto. Desiring to make an action film centering on guns, he expanded the idea into a screenplay in 2000, accompanied by an animated footage with 17,000 drawings for the action scenes. Smith flees from the gang, enlisting the help of prostitute Donna Quintano (Bellucci) to keep the baby safe as he unravels the conspiracy.Īccording to Davis, the idea for the film came about after he saw a gun-battle scene from John Woo's critically acclaimed Hard Boiled in which Chow Yun-fat rescues newborn babies from gangsters. The film follows Smith (Owen), a drifter who rescues a newborn from being killed by assassin Hertz (Giamatti) and his henchmen. It stars Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci, and Stephen McHattie. Shoot 'Em Up is a 2007 American action film written and directed by Michael Davis.