Point Blank

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Point Blank
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DVD Details

  • Commentary by Director John Boorman & Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh
  • 2 Vintage Featurettes: The Rock: Part 1 & The Rock: Part 2
  • Languages: English & French
  • Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 5, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1967
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 7,592
Rating: 4/5 -- An almost experimental discourse on crime, punishment and revenge brilliantly shot by Philip H. Lathrop. Full Review
London Evening Standard
Mar 29, 2013
A dazzling concerto of colors and syncopated sounds in which a bad man briefly returns to the living, and then disappears back into darkness. Full Review
The ARTery
Aug 20, 2016
Rating: 5/5 -- A movie to saviour again and again on the biggest screen you can get to. Full Review
Little White Lies
Mar 28, 2013
Though tightly edited to 92 minutes, the movie bogs down at a few points, finally seems to have nowhere to go. Full Review
Cleveland Press
Jan 22, 2019
Point Blank is an entertaining degenerate movie for its bit players: Michael Strong as a used used-car dealer, Lloyd Bochner and his sharkskin style of elegant menace. Full Review
Artforum
Oct 3, 2018
Rating: 5/5 -- Has aged as well as Lee Marvin's brown jacket and tangerine shirt ensemble - that is to say, spectacularly. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Mar 28, 2013
Rating: 4/5 -- An intriguing, disorientating 60s artefact. Full Review
Guardian
Mar 28, 2013

Description by OLDIES.com:

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 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)

Product Description:

Lee Marvin stars as the lethal Walker in director John Boorman's stunningly stylized daylight noir, POINT BLANK. Mal Reese (John Vernon), Walker's partner in crime, shoots him and leaves him for dead on desolate Alcatraz Island just after they've pulled off a huge heist. For good measure, Reese also makes off with Walker's perfidious wife, Lynne (Sharon Acker). A couple of years later, while touring Alcatraz, Walker is approached by a man named Yost (Keenan Wynn) who offers to help him get his cut of the take by leading him to Reese and Lynne in exchange for information about the mysterious organization that now includes the thief's ex-partner. Walker agrees. He first runs down Lynne in L.A. and says hello by burying a few rounds in her bed but leaves her unharmed. Long ago abandoned by Reese, she's disintegrating emotionally and attempts to babble an explanation of her actions to the indifferent Walker. With the help of Lynne's sister, Chris (Angie Dickinson), Walker gains access to Reese's seemingly impregnable penthouse apartment, and the former partners' reunion is less than blissful. One of the best thrillers of the 1960s, the film's deadpan amorality and fragmented Resnais-influenced narrative, echoed in the startling camera angles and obliquely gorgeous anamorphic compositions of high-testosterone specialist Philip Lathrop (THE CINCINNATI KID), make clear why POINT BLANK has slowly become one of the most influential noirs.

Description by Warner Home Video:

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).

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  • UPC: 012569674141
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