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Plot: 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 f...( read more  )or 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

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  MCT:

  April 29, 2008

  Just when everyone thought good old noir was under the ground, John Boorman resurrected it in style, mixing it with a little psychedelia and avant-garde techniques, adding sex appeal of blond babes Angie Dickinson and Sharon Acker, and last but not least, placing the tough guy Lee Marvin in the deadly assignment of getting the money he was double-crossed for. Topnotch example of innovative, hypnotic and thrilling filmmaking.

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  MCT:

  April 28, 2008

  Definitely a good revenge flick. Is it New Wave meets neo-noir? Who cares.
  
  Worth seeing for Lee Marvin's icy performance as a betrayed man who will get his $93,000 back, no matter who he has to go through to get it.
  
  Nice supporting roles by Angie Dickinson, John Vernon, and Alcatraz.

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  April 27, 2008

  This movie is based on a classic pulp novel called "The Hunter" Lee Marvin is the quintessential bad ass, loved it

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  April 15, 2008

  Line that best explains the movie...
  "So what are you going to do? Wait for him to come home and ask for the money and when he doesn't have it, shoot him like everyone else?"
  "Yeah something like that."

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  February 3, 2008

  Brilliant. I had no idea there was an American New Wave, much less the fact that John Boorman was a master of it.
  Lee Marvin is unstoppable. You can't turn away any moment he's on the screen.
  Great cast, great film.

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  The original was released in the summer of 1967,when Lee Marvin's WWII action-adventure film "The Dirty Dozen" was a smash hit also had audiences running to the theatres when it was released in the summer of that same year. However,"Point Blank",remains a classic in its own right giving Lee Marvin star power with a excellent cast that features Angie Dickinson,Keenan Wynn,and Carroll O'Connor. Not to mention the acting debut of John Vernon. Hard and gritty not to mention violent with Lee Marvin doing his thing,and baby he does it with such style and finesse. Was remade in 1995 as "Payback" with Mel Gibson in the Lee Marvin.

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  Angie Dickinson
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  Carroll O'Connor
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  James Sikking
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  John Vernon
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  Keenan Wynn
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  Lee Marvin
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  Lloyd Bochner
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  Michael Strong
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  Sandra Warner
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  Sharon Acker

• Rated: (Unrated)
• Directed by: John Boorman
• Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Drama, Classics
• Released: August 30, 1967
• DVD Released: July 5, 2005

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