- Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner
- Directors: John Boorman
- Language English
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- VHS Release Date: 15 May 2000
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CND3
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,231 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Point Blank’s hero, Walker (Lee Marvin), strides through Los Angeles with the steely stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and his best friend, who gun him down point-blank and leave him for dead after a successful heist, Walker blasts his way up the criminal food chain in a quest for revenge. Did he survive the shooting, did he return from the grave, or is it all a dying dream?
The question is left in the air in John Boorman's modern film noir, a brutal revenge thriller based on Richard Stark's novel, set in the impersonal concrete and steel canyons of Los Angeles and the eerily empty cells of Alcatraz. Walker kills without remorse, guided by shadowy "informant" Keenan Wynn, whose own agenda is carefully concealed and assisted by Angie Dickinson as he desperately searches for someone, anyone, who can just give him his money. But if Walker is an extreme incarnation of the revenge-driven noir anti-hero, the modern syndicate has been transformed into a world of paper jungles and corporate businessmen: an alienating concept for the two-fisted, gun-wielding gangster.
Boorman creates a hard, austere look for the film and scatters flashes of painful memory throughout the story, grafting the New Wave onto old genres with confidence and style. Haunting and brutal, Point Blank remains one of the most distinctive crime thrillers ever made. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lee Marvin Masterclass,
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This review is from: Point Blank [VHS] (VHS Tape)
A hard, brutal film, as Lee Marvin takes revenge big time. Marvin carries this film from first to last - power, presence, cool, and very hard. John Boorman hits the big screen with a brilliant movie which is underrated and supremely cult. Hits you with images which stay with you. Worth watching just for the impact of Marvin marching down a corridor - it's that good. In my top ten no problem.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Point Blank [Region 2] [import] (DVD)
Point Blank [Region 2] [import]
Recently obtained and to realise that the memories of the original film issue was everything that my memory remembered about it - and more! Supreme performance of Lee Marvin was, and is, still a riveting watch - cetainly underlines that this was one of the film world's jewels - to be seen and carefully put away for repeat viewing!!
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a classic,
By BA Baracus "BA" (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Point Blank [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
this is definitely one of the best crime films ever made. lee marvin does a great job here, playing walker a tough who has been shot and left for dead on alcatraz, betrayed by his best friend and wife who have have been having an affair together and run off with the loot. marvin strides through LA cause catastrophy after catastrophy all in the name of revenge and persuit of what is rightfully his. despite being set in the 60's the movie is timeless, because intellegently portrayed the underworld not as old fashioned heavy handed thugs but as a maze like jungle of big business corporations and businessmen. this is probably indebted to the social upheavels that were taking place in america at the time such as vietnam, nixon etc. movies like soderbergh's the limey starring terrence stamp owe some debt to this movie but can never repeat its brilliance.
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