Shoot Em Up

Bob Viddick, the grunting, grizzled and scruple-light hitman from the frenetically fun Copshop, informs us at one stage that he received a degree “from the university of common sense”. Is this a good line? It would be a struggle to…

The Russian mafia killed his dog. He killed all of them. That was the simple, often joked about premise of the first John Wick. A slickly made 2014 thriller with a sense of humour and a brilliantly propulsive plot, it endeared itself to…

“Eat your vegetables,” he says before punching a carrot through the back of a nameless goon’s head. That’s basically what Shoot Em Up is. An eighty-four-minute masterclass in how to kill people with bullets and vegetables. In 2007 the world…