Shut up and shoot yourself before watching this movie. The pain of the bullet wound will dull the pain of watching the movie. And if there’s someone watching the movie with you, shoot them too, their screams of pain should drown out the dialog of the movie and you can sit back and enjoy the moving pictures as you fade in and out of total darkness.
We’ve all been subject to a lot of parodies in the last few years. A couple of the Scary Movie franchise didn’t completely disappoint, but most of them do. Superhero Movie, Disaster Movie, Epic Movie all complete waste’s of perfectly good film and discs, and Shut Up and Shoot does that group proud.
It’s supposed to pay homage to many of the great directors and producers in Hollywood and many of the great films that have been made. Specifically the more action-orientated movies. When the whole “idea” behind a movie is to make you sit at home and try and guess what movie they’re paying homage to, that’s not a movie, it’s a joke. We liked the original movies because they had their own story and we’re entertaining and didn’t try and rip other people off.
Shut Up and Shoot does try to have its own story. But it’s idiotic. A big-time movie producer convinces his rising-star actor that the only way to stay on top of the industry is to kill all the other big movie producers. And somehow the rising star agrees to this, and agrees to film the murders on top of that. So he gets a camera crew together and goes on a killing spree. The murders look absolutely terrible. They’re heavily CGI’d, and not very well. The blood looks terrible, the flash from the guns don’t always match the firing of the gun, just a lot of stuff like that. It’s somewhat explained in the end when it comes out they didn’t actually do the killings and they were just staged to set up the evil producer. However, that still doesn’t fly with me. He’s a movie producer, he produces movies for a living, it’s what he does. And yet, he somehow fails to notice that the murders he’s been shown are completely and horribly CGI’d? I don’t buy it, if I can tell; he’d be able to tell.
Yes, I did pretty much just spoil the end; you can thank me later when you pass over this movie on the shelf.
The dialog is basically the same few lines delivered over and over again. The ‘b’ word is mentioned once every couple of sentences. But overall not terrible, but not all that helpful for the story.
The shots and editing of the movie is surprisingly not terrible. Mostly because they’re taking the best of other people and jamming it all into one, but it looks good.
Shut Up and Shoot is presented in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen format and 5.1 Surround Sound.
Deleted Scenes – Thankfully deleted or else the movie would have been longer and worse.
Making of Featurette – Like most of these this one talks about how much fun it was to make and how great everybody was.
A Promo Reel for the movie – Basically it’s the movie in a minute and a half, much less painful.
This is a terrible movie and somebody needs to tell Hollywood to stop making these stupid parody movies. Nobody likes them and they all suck. This one is one of the worst.
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SP Entertainment Presents Shut Up and Shoot. Directed by Silvio Pollio. Starring Silvio Pollio, Roddy Piper, Daniel Baldwin and Gary Busey. Written by Silvio Pollio. Running time: 88 minutes. Unrated. Released on DVD: January 13th, 2009. Available at Amazon.com.
