Hey MythBusters, can you check something for me?

So, post long overdue. Sorry about that, but it is a time of wedding planning and almost-job-quitting-but-deciding-not-to for me and sometimes you neglect the ones you love. Anyway...I saw that movie that came out a few weeks ago, "Shoot 'Em Up." Don't worry, they are being ironic, but not overly so. There are definitely a lot of people getting shot in this movie. If it weren't for the film's artful awareness of its genre and sublte commentary alluding to that awareness, I would suggest a more apt title might have been "Stab 'Em Through the Brain with a Carrot", which is what Clive Owens did about eleven times in this movie.

I have read a few unfavorable reviews of this film (actually, just one, I get my movie reviews on NPR for the most part, because I am just a liberal snob like that) that seemed to think that Clive Owens and Paul Giammati should be ashamed of themselves for being in such a primitive and unintelligent film. But I am going to have to disagree. The title alone tipped me off that this movie was not going to be a mere violence orgy (although it was a violence orgy and at one point there was a violence orgasm, which was kind of weird and funny at the same time). No, I thought this movie was just kitch enough to make the joke, but shoot 'em up enough to have mass appeal. The plot was weak at points, but then again, what movie in this genre has a storyline as tight as my abs? None, is the answer we are looking for here. My only real issue: can you really kill someone by stabbing them in the face with a carrot? I thought it was a great shtick for the brooding antihero to always be munching on organic orange vegetables, but I couldn't help but wonder (Carrie Bradshaw style) if a carrot can really disembowel my brain.