Point Blank

Starring:Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Strong, John Vernon, Sharon Acker, James Sikking, Sandra Warner, Roberta Haynes, Kathleen Freeman, Victor Creatore, Lawrence Hauben, Susan Holloway, Sid Haig, Michael Bell, Priscilla Boyd, John McMurtry, Ron Walters (II)
Director: John Boorman
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Walker (Lee Marvin) strides through Los Angeles with the steel-eyed stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and 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 or 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 The Hunter (remade by Brian Helgeland as Payback), set in the impersonal concrete and steel canyons of Los Angeles and 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 antihero, the modern syndicate has been transformed into a world of paper jungles and corporate businessmen, an alienating concept to the two-fisted, gun-wielding gangster. Boorman creates a hard, austere look for the film and fragments the story with flashes of painful memory, 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
Description
They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they didn't finish the job. Big mistake. He - someday, somehow - is going to finish them. Lee Marvin is in full antihero mode as remorseless Walker, talking the talk and walking the walk in John Boorman's (Deliverance) edgy neo-noir classic filled with imaginative New Wave style, blunt dialogue and Walker's relentless quest that, one by one, smashes into the corporate pecking order of a crime group called the Organization. Angie Dickinson plays the accomplice who uses her seductive wiles to ensnare one of Walker's prey. "I want my 93 grand," Walker growls at him. Throughout, the payoff to that demand is action that "hits like a fat slug from the .38 Lee Marvin uses as an extension of his fist" (Newsweek).

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Directors John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh
Featurette:Vintage Featurettes The Rock Part 1 and The Rock Part 2

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"I want my money"
A forerunner to Dirty Harry and Lee Marvin shining...
companion pieces
Gritty film....love it!
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Point Blank
Starring: Lee Marvin , Angie Dickinson , Keenan Wynn , Carroll O'Connor , and Lloyd Bochner
Director: John Boorman
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Walker (Lee Marvin) strides through Los Angeles with the steel-eyed stare of a stone-cold killer, or perhaps a ghost. Betrayed by his wife and 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 or 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 The Hunter (remade by Brian Helgeland as Payback), set in the impersonal concrete and steel canyons of Los Angeles and 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 antihero, the modern syndicate has been transformed into a world of paper jungles and corporate businessmen, an alienating concept to the two-fisted, gun-wielding gangster. Boorman creates a hard, austere look for the film and fragments the story with flashes of painful memory, 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

Description

They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they didn't finish the job. Big mistake. He - someday, somehow - is going to finish them. Lee Marvin is in full antihero mode as remorseless Walker, talking the talk and walking the walk in John Boorman's (Deliverance) edgy neo-noir classic filled with imaginative New Wave style, blunt dialogue and Walker's relentless quest that, one by one, smashes into the corporate pecking order of a crime group called the Organization. Angie Dickinson plays the accomplice who uses her seductive wiles to ensnare one of Walker's prey. "I want my 93 grand," Walker growls at him. Throughout, the payoff to that demand is action that "hits like a fat slug from the .38 Lee Marvin uses as an extension of his fist" (Newsweek).

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Directors John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh
Featurette:Vintage Featurettes The Rock Part 1 and The Rock Part 2

Customer Reviews:

"I want my money" .......2007-06-11

Saw this movie a month and a half ago. What an amazing movie. The whole cast was good especially Marvin and Angie Dickinson. Can you believe this movie bombed when it was released in the summer of 1967? Hard to believe that this is a fast movie (92 minutes) and by the time the movie neared its end it reminded me of a movie that I recently saw and that is the David Cromberg film "A History of Violence". Speaking of movies I think "Point Blank" is the most important movie of the 1960's because it was the inspiration for other shoot-them-up movies that would come out in the years to come including "Bullitt", "Dirty Harry", "Get Carter", and "Death Wish".

A forerunner to Dirty Harry and Lee Marvin shining..........2007-04-20

If you liked "The Getaway" or "Dirty Harry", then meet their forerunner.

"Point Blank" is explosive, fast-paced, and still the acting is there.
Good acting that is.

Lee Marvin is at his best. Angie Dickinson. in her strong performance, is as beautiful as ever. Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor play their parts to the hilt and it truly shows. John Vernon (who was The Mayor in "Dirty Harry") plays a slimy type with diligence and very believable.

Add the killing pace of the entire picture, and you have a hot item, as sharp and cutting as "Film Noir" can be.
Yes, because this is still a "Film Noir", despite the fact that it was filmed in Color and in the mid-sixties.

John Boorman ("Hell in the Pacific", "Deliverance" and "The Emerald Forest"), skillfully "color coded" the entire movie, bringing it from absolute colors at the beginning, to more red-tinted ones towards the end.

The only difference from a true "Film Noir" is its fast-paced storyline, that would lead us to movies as I have mentioned above.

Marvin's minimalistic acting, but forceful presence, is enough to fill every frame of the movie with tension, action and complete mayhem.
Compare him in "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Big Red One" and you will see what I mean.

A big plus was the release on DVD. An excellent transfer with a sharp picture resolution, a clearcut sound, make it a very enticing experience to watch it at home.

This is not just a Highly Recommended title. It is simply a Must!

companion pieces.......2007-04-19

This character (whose original name is Parker) also appears in THE SPLIT, THE OUTFIT, SLAYGROUND, and PAYBACK.

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Gritty film....love it!.......2007-02-14

I just watched this last night and I love these kind of films.Tough talk,double crosses,action.For those of you who wondered how Lee Marvin's character got himself fixed after he had been shot,then just assume that he went to the hospital because if they showed everything,then the movie would've been over 2 hours long.This is one Lee Marvin's best roles that can stand next to Cat Ballou and Who Shot Liberty Valence.They don't make tough guys like Lee Marvin anymore and he was one of the best.Plus,a great comedian,too.Great cast..

Treasurehouse .......2006-11-06

A haunting film, superbly directed, edited and acted, a source for cinema techniques we take for granted today, in short everything that the remake was not. For the film enthusiast an absolutely 'must have.' For those to whom movies are simply entertainments, probably something of a disappointment, open ended as it is and subject to questions to which there is no definite answer.

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The plot is a mess...the acting is lousy...but the violence is top notch !!!
Wow... that was so bad I think I have to die right now!
the worst film EVER!
Kevin Gage is a success!
NEGATIVE 5 STARS!

Point Blank
Starring: Werner Schreyer , Michael Wright , Danny Trejo , Paul Ben-Victor , and Kevin Gage
Director: Matt Earl Beesley
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Release Date: 1998-12-15

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Strictly for late-night laughs, this ultraviolent action flick fails to make sense even of its own premise. A busload of Texas convicts are freed when heavily armed commandos open fire on them. The survivors and commandos take over a shopping mall, gathering numerous hostages together, shooting them when the mood strikes, or just to thin the acting herd. One mall guard shouts hysterically into his walkie-talkie until a compassionate squib puts him out of his misery. Behind this bold prison break is an infamous money launderer (Paul Ben-Victor), whom we may thank for all the weaponry, and Joe Ray (Kevin Gage), whose brother Ruby Ray (Mickey Rourke), a former Texas Ranger, has infiltrated the mall stronghold in order to get his brother out. What follows is plenty of violence, with big guys like Danny Trejo refusing to die no matter how many bullets hit him. Should be rated R for excessive use of improbabilities and gratuitous voiceover narration.--Jim Gay

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The plot is a mess...the acting is lousy...but the violence is top notch !!!.......2005-08-31

If you really don't care if a movie makes any sense, and you prefer graphic violence to good acting...then this may be the DVD for you !!! Otherwise it is a complete piece of trash.

Opening scene: A prison bus full of the slimiest, most degenerate criminals in all of Texas (and that is saying a lot) is "rescued" by a gang of murderous henchmen with rockets and anti-tank weapons. Law enforcement officers are butchered and blown to pieces....the prisoners then travel to a Fort Worth shopping mall and take it over, slashing, blasting and pistol whipping innocent shoppers at will. Why they are going to the mall, rather than simply splitting up and completing their escape is never satisfactorily explained.

Soon they are surrounded by hundreds of law enforcement officers, who serve as easy targets as they wander around the parking lot while the convicts blast them with recoiless rifles and gatling guns mounted on the mall roof. In fact, all law enforcement figures in this movie, particularly the FBI, are depicted as complete idiots who are joyously blasted to smithereens by the convicts....it appears that the author of this wretched "screenplay" has a real problem with authority figures.

If all of this sounds like mindless nonsense, then save yourself some time and money and move on to better movies; otherwise, keep reading...it just gets worse.

Mickey Rourke appears on the scene. He has obviously been lifting weights for the last 10 years and guzzling steroids like M&M's....he is positively huge....as big as Arnold in "Conan the Barbarian", and every bit as amusing. Sweaty and greasy as usual, he is the brother of the convict leader (who orchestrated the escape). Apparently he intends to rescue his brother by sneaking into the mall and killing everyone he sees....how this will rescue his brother is not clear, and who really cares??? because it is a great excuse to sneak around and break people's necks with exotic karate moves and stab them with various sharp objects. If you want a meaningful plot, you should have heeded my warning and stopped reading long ago.

The balance of the movie features naked pole dancing, coke snorting that rivals Al Pacino in Scarface, simulated oral sex, multiple homicides, neck snappings, slow gut stabbings, miscellaneous throat slittings, and even a near-death by table saw. Sure....none of these charming events relate in any way to a meaningful plot, but obviously (since you are still reading this review) you could care less. This is a mindless gore-fest from the opening scene to the final, unsatisfying conclusion (which, as a bonus, features the longest, silliest dying scene since Monty Python and the Holy Grail).

If you enjoy such outrageous "entertainment" (and I must admit that I sometimes do) then this may be just what the doctor (definitely not a psychiatrist) ordered. Otherwise, it is pure, shameless trash that should be banned in all civilized countries (even Texas).

Wow... that was so bad I think I have to die right now!.......2004-12-22

One good thing about this movie is that it helped me find religion. It was so bad that I actually wrote a prayer: Oh great and loving God, take mercy upon this, the lowliest of your creatures. Burn my brain, I beseech thee... yeah with fire, acid, turpentine, and super-hot hot sauce lay waste to the portion of my brain which remembers having viewed "Point Blank" with Mickey Rourke! Keep me safe and guide my steps far, far from future viewings, so that in thy mercy I might instead feast upon broken glass and burning hot lava, and smear my naked buttox with honey and lay me upon a hill of ants rather than ever see this film again. Amen.

Like many of you, I first came across this little gem while searching for the 1967 masterpiece of funkadelic nihilism starring Lee Marvin. Well, of course THAT'S not out of DVD yet, but since I'm a huge fan of Mickey Rourke (for reasons which, as his career progresses, I find more and more difficult to remember), I thought "Wow, Mickey Rourke just re-made one of the coolest movies of all time... might be worth watching." Boy, was THAT a mistake!

First of all, this IS NOT a remake of Lee Marvin/John Boorman's Point Blank. That's two strikes against Rourke, because he ALSO starred in "Bullet," a stupid piece of crap which had nothing to do with Steve McQueen's "Bullit," another of the great guy films of all time. It's about a bunch of escaped convicts who are really bad and blow some stuff up and are at a mall and Mickey Rourke Kills them. 'Nuff said re the plot.

One thing that really sticks out about this film is that Rourke, typically a pretty muscular dude, is positively STEROIDAL! I mean, he put on SO MUCH muscle for this role that his skin literally looks as if it's going to fissure and peel off! I don't know what he was on, but it must be something we normally use on farm animals!

the worst film EVER!.......2001-04-03

This is without the worst film i have ever seen. worth seeing on that basis. all english viewers look out for mathew corbet out of sooty. he gets shot. and hes actually holding sooty. a top laugh. watch it!

Kevin Gage is a success!.......2000-09-20

If you've ever seen a movie with Kevin Gage in it you would notice that he is a dominating character. There is no exception in "Point Blank." I think this was one of Kevin's best movies. Even though he did very well in G.I. Jane, Kevin has one of the leading roles in this movie as Mickey Rourke's brother. It starts with Kevin being in jail and Mickey trying to get him out. Then there is an accident and people are taken hostage. I don't want to give anything else away. If you want a suspense filled movie watch "Point Blank" I guarantee you'll at least enjoy it.

NEGATIVE 5 STARS!.......2000-05-24

"Point Blank" is the most offensively stupid movie out there. It boggles the mind knowing that when the makers put this movie together, they were actually being serious about their work.

The action sequences, the dialogue, and the overall plot of the movie is so shamelessly horrible, further words about it couldn't describe it.

The scriptwriter put the Marine Corps in way too many characters' background, probably just because he thought it would make the movie cooler. Pathetic.

You can't really blame the director or actors because they can only work with what was written in the first place. Still, they should be ashamed for even having their names associated with this film.

The only reason you should buy this movie is so you can BURN IT WITHOUT EVEN OPENING THE CASE!

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: Season Six - Volume Four {Homecoming, Point Blank, Seeds of Doubt, Seven Kinds of Lonely}
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Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: Season Six - Volume Four {Homecoming, Point Blank, Seeds of Doubt, Seven Kinds of Lonely}

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Actors: Jane Seymour, Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Jessica Bowman, Shawn Toovey, Directors: Daniel Attias, Chuck Bowman DVD Features: Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) *** SEASON SIX *** VOLUME FOUR *** CONTAINS FOUR EPISODES *** Homecoming, Point Blank, Seeds of Doubt, Seven Kinds of Lonely *** DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN-available on DVD for the first time ever, the sixth and final season of a television family classic! Having fled the social confines of mid-19th century Boston for the wide-open frontier world of Colorado Springs, Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour) finds a new set of challenges--and rewards--in life as a pioneer. With Byron Sully (Joe Lando) and a growing family to support her, each episode features a rich cast of characters and memorable storylines that bring the timeless themes of the Old West straight into the hearts of contemporary viewers.

At Point Blank (Ranarna) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Sweden ]

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At Point Blank (Ranarna) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Sweden ]
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Sweden released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: Swedish (Dolby Digital 5.1), Danish (Subtitles), English (Subtitles), Finnish (Subtitles), Norwegian (Subtitles), Swedish (Subtitles), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SYNOPSIS: A group of very efficient robbers strikes banks in downtown area of Stockholm. Detective Klara and commanding officer Siemens takes on the case. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Music Video, Scene Access, Trailer(s),

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The plot is a mess...the acting is lousy...but the violence is top notch !!!
Wow... that was so bad I think I have to die right now!
the worst film EVER!
Kevin Gage is a success!
NEGATIVE 5 STARS!

Point Blank [Region 2]
Starring: Werner Schreyer , Michael Wright , Danny Trejo , Paul Ben-Victor , and Kevin Gage
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The plot is a mess...the acting is lousy...but the violence is top notch !!!.......2005-08-31

Wow... that was so bad I think I have to die right now!.......2004-12-22

the worst film EVER!.......2001-04-03

Kevin Gage is a success!.......2000-09-20

NEGATIVE 5 STARS!.......2000-05-24

"Point Blank" is the most offensively stupid movie out there. It boggles the mind knowing that when the makers put this movie together, they were actually being serious about their work.

The action sequences, the dialogue, and the overall plot of the movie is so shamelessly horrible, further words about it couldn't describe it.

The scriptwriter put the Marine Corps in way too many characters' background, probably just because he thought it would make the movie cooler. Pathetic.

You can't really blame the director or actors because they can only work with what was written in the first place. Still, they should be ashamed for even having their names associated with this film.

The only reason you should buy this movie is so you can BURN IT WITHOUT EVEN OPENING THE CASE!

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