This Shoot ‘Em Up movie is ridiculous. Of course, it’s meant to be, but that doesn’t make it necessarily any more fun to watch. Written and directed by Michael Davis, it’s an action-movie-as-cartoon, so much that the lead, played by Clive Owen, has the non-too-subtle affectation of chewing on a carrot constantly (although he does kill people with it). This movie is all about gunplay at its most ridiculous—whether falling from an airplane or during a sex scene.

It’s definitely got that super-stylized Sin City thing going for it, but it’s all a little... wearying. I mean, it’s all about clever, CGI-assisted gun goofery, and it might have worked better as a short than an actual feature-length movie. What’s more, the movie’s got an ugly misogynist undercurrent and way too much figurative “gun-fucking” than any filmmaker should get away with these days (not to mention Monica Bellucci as a hooker with a heart of gold). It’s now out on DVD.

The haunting, spellbinding Zodiac, one of the best movies of 2007, got a pretty perfunctory DVD release last year, with almost no special features and a widely-panned transfer that by all reports didn’t do the beautifully shot film justice. Thankfully, director David Fincher has rectified the situation with a two-disc director’s cut collector’s edition. The DVD restores several minutes to the film (which were apparently cut due to weird focus-grouping), and packs on a bunch of special features including a Fincher commentary, commentary by stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jake Gyllenhaal, as well as extensive docs on the making of the film and lots of resources on the real-life murder cases and the chief suspect it was inspired by.

Considering Fincher’s incredible HD cinematography, his totally gorgeous evocation of ’60s and ’70s period San Francisco, this one is really making me wish I had a player equipped to play the HD-DVD version.