"Guns don't kill people,--but they sure help!"
Wow! What fun!
This is definitely a "boy's movie." The violence is cartoonish- kind of like a graphic novel (comic book) brought to life, injected with steroids, methedrine and testosterone, 100 cups of coffee and rocket fuel, then given guns and ammo and set loose in a lunatic asylum. It's James Bond without the T&A, Sergio Leone without the squining brooding, multiplied by a thousand.
Don't bother counting bodies, let alone bullets. The action is inventive, violent and non-stop. There are plenty of laughs, mostly from the ridiculously impossible stunts and situations.
Clive Owen is perfect as the dour loner forced to be the white-hat vigilante in black leather, dispensing justice via high caliber rounds.
Paul Giamatti hits the target as the Bad Guy, ruthless and unrelenting.
It is a totally escapist film, for you and for the main characters.
The title doesn't lie. See it!
Bang!