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Point Blank [DVD] [2011]

Gilles Lellouche , Roschdy Zem , Fred Cavayé    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier
  • Directors: Fred Cavayé
  • Format: Subtitled, PAL
  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Dubbed: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Audio Description: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent.
  • DVD Release Date: 3 Oct 2011
  • Run Time: 81 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00594HGEA
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 28,699 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Everything is going well for Samuel (Gilles Lellouche; Tell Know One/ Sherlock Holmes/ Mesrine/ Little White Lies) and his beautiful wife Nadia (Elana Anaya; The Skin I Live In/ Sexand Lucia/ Van Helsing/ Talk to Her/ Mesrine). But everything changes when Nadia is kidnapped right in front of Samuel, who is knocked out cold, trying to stop the kidnapper. When he comes to, his phone is ringing; he has just three hours to get Startet (Roschdy Zem; Just Like a Woman/ The Cold Light of Day), a man who is under police surveillance, out of the hospital in which Samuel works. His destiny now lies in the hands of a man who is wanted by the police but if he wants to see his wife again, he must act fast…

Special Features:
  • Making of documentary (50 minutes)
  • Photo gallery
  • Original theatrical trailer

Synopsis

A hospital nurse forced to do the bidding of a criminal after his pregnant wife is kidnapped.

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Average Action Thriller 22 Feb 2012
By OMG! It's got a plug! TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
If you suspend belief for 80 minutes, this is an OK film, nothing more; nothing less. Reviewers who have commented that this French production is a breath of fresh air compared to "flashy" Hollywood thrillers must have watched a different film - this is every bit as "flashy" as a Hollywood production.

Although fast-paced and well acted, the plot stretches credibility on more than a few occasions and this spoils what could otherwise have been a very good action thriller. Had it been 30 minutes longer, I feel that the director could have made a more believable and ultimately more enjoyable film. As it is, everything is just too rushed and, plot wise, extremely convenient.

The director's earlier film, 'Anything for Her', is far superior to this effort and was remade by Hollywood. I doubt very much that there will be a Hollywood remake of this - the director's already done the job for them.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Above All Do None Harm 13 Mar 2012
By Charles Vasey TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
Our hero is a family man, studying for his nurse's qualifications and helping his wife who is expecting their first child. He finds himself plunged into a mess of criminal gangs, assassinations, rogue flics, and all at break-neck speed. The constant driving force of the movie (there are few quiet periods)helps engage our senses which makes figuring out all the angles just that bit harder (like singing the Marseillaise while listening to the Sex Pistols). The film makes no pretensions to being high art but is a good action policier; the use of Mr Average (instead of a Jason Statham martial arts equivalent) as hero certainly added to the piece.
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7 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Tommy D TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
This is a French crime thriller which has borrowed a bit from the `Die Hard' franchise. It tells the story of trainee nurse Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche), whose wife is very heavily pregnant. One night a man is taken into the Hospital after he has suffered a stomach laceration and been run over by a (quite fast) motorbike. He is on a ventilator, and not in a good way. Someone cuts the life saving tube and he starts to suffocate. Samuel spots it just in time and saves the mans life.

That was a big mistake; this guy is a wanted high calibre thief - Hugo Sartet (Roscidy Zem). His compatriots have followed Samuel home and then decide to take his wife hostage and force him to `spring' their boss (who has made a miraculous recovery). Samuels wife has been told she is in danger of losing the baby and has to spend the rest of her pregnancy lying down, so this brutal interruption sends Sam a bit desperate. It turns out the docs were wrong as she is able to do all sorts of derring do. He then decides to do all it takes to get her back.

He goes back into work (after a night shift) and puts a rather crude plan into operation, meanwhile the Gendarmes have taken fingerprints from the unknown guy and are heading back to ask some pesky questions. The cops are also investigating the murder of an uber rich business guy, but are the matters linked?

Well this tries to avoid formulaic plot developments, and has some brilliant touches. I liked the French police driving Alfa Romeos. There is an however, and that is the number of plot holes. If you just go with the flow, then this is an excellent action movie, with full throttle action, double crosses and plot twists, but the contrivances just took something away for me.

I am a big fan of World Cinema and especially love European Cinema and I think Director Fred Cavaye has done an above average job, but some of the artifice he uses means that this is hard to take that seriously. If you want to suspend belief for 84 mins, with full on action, some blood and guts and some really rather good performances from all involved, then this will tick your boxes, if you thought `Anything For Her'Anything For Her [DVD] [2008] was a bit of a stretch, then best to avoid.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars Point Blank
Thank you,as always the service was excellent
Have not had time to view this yet. As we have emerged from the recent rush I can look forward to it
Ishbel
Published 4 months ago by --
5.0 out of 5 stars Well constructed drama, well realised
This is a pretty good piece of drama. Intelligent, plausible enough, fast-moving, and enthralling. Excellent acting and directing, in my humble opinion.
Published 7 months ago by Occasional Thinker
4.0 out of 5 stars If you see one French film this year
This is a great french film which manages to be genuinely suspenseful from beginning to finish in a way that I cant remember any english language productions being for a long... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Lark
5.0 out of 5 stars They don't make those in Hollywood!
Much like Anything for her, the previous work by the same director, this movie is about ordinary people who are put to the test in severe circumstances... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Nomad in Caledonia
2.0 out of 5 stars Point Less
For your own good, please find something better to do with 80 minutes than watch this terrible movie. Read more
Published 8 months ago by M. Duncan
4.0 out of 5 stars Gangsters, cops, chases and murders...and an innocent nice guy....
This is how Point Blank opens: When safecracker Hugo Sartet suddenly finds two men confronting him in a darkened Paris apartment, it's run or die. He runs... Read more
Published 13 months ago by C. O. DeRiemer
3.0 out of 5 stars Swift Point Blank Thriller
'Point Blank (French: À Bout Portant)' is a French crime-thriller film that released in 2010 to positive reviews, however flopped at the box-office. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mitun
2.0 out of 5 stars More point less than point blank
Usually Roschdy Zem is one of the finest of the current crop of French actors and has featured in some of the best films to emerge from this country over the last few years such as... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Ian Thumwood
5.0 out of 5 stars Straight to the Point
The French and their thrillers are going through somewhat of a boom period at the moment, to the extent that I am becoming confident that if it has an everyman running around... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Sam
5.0 out of 5 stars dvd
this dvd was what I wanted it came on time and I was very pleased with the film and the whole order
Published 16 months ago by summer123
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