I'm sure our standards allow me to use the name in the post title, but I won't. Not from prudery, but because this is the first major motion picture with that word in the title, and it's one of those unnecessary acts of culture-coarsening we can do without. Unless you believe that it's hypocritical to use a word in one's private life but oppose splashing it on a billboard, in which case you'd better not read anymore.

I don't know what it is about this movie that gives me the vapors, because I've seen John Woo movies where the body count rivals the population of a European principality. In Hard-Boiled, the hero cops shoots an entire hospital full of bad guys. You don't take it seriously, because the interchangeable minions are like tin targets popping up in a penny arcade shooting gallery. "Shoot 'em Up," a Clive Owen movie from 2008, is crammed with cartoon violence that's intended to be funny - for heaven's sake, any movie where the hero delivers a baby then cuts the umbilical cord by shooting it - well, it's telling you right up front this isn't to be taken seriously. I don't see a lot of these, but have no substantial objection. Except when they use kids and have kids shooting people. Oh, right! That's what bugs me about this movie.

Yes: not letting your daughter shoot bad guys is a family value, I guess.

Gather, O geeks, that we may mock this detractor with all our weapons, including uncapitalized posts in the AICN forum! Whatever. By all means, let them enjoy their comic-book visions of little girls shooting men in the head, and let them flood the internet to insist that you don't understand and the comic book is awesome. Fine. Have a sequel! Mangia, mangia!

But someday you will have kids, and while they're asleep upstairs you'll watch a movie in which a really cool bad guy shoots a bunch of 11 year old girls, and it's over the top, man, and it's really funny! Or so the internet says. It will bother you, though. It won't seem quite right, this guy shooting all the little girls in the head.

Really? Why? If it's AWESOME to have a Hit killing people, then you should have no objection to the other way around, provided it's all done in a stylized hyper-realistic fashion, right? But you might. And then you wonder what's the next line to be erased.

The little girl who plays the part says the movie's not for kids - hey, thanks! Out of the mouths of babes, wisdom. And F-bombs, if the script requires it. I'm sure her parents might have had some qualms about this, but hey: the money was good.