Angie Dickinson, Carroll O'Connor, James Sikking
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005
Stats: 309 reviews
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 L...( read more)
What happened to John Boorman? I mean how did he make a movie that kicks this much ass and then make Zardoz? WTF?
Brewster: You're a very bad man, Walker, a very destructive man! Why do you run around doing things like this?
Walker: I want my money. I want my $93,000.
Brewster: $93,000? You threaten a financial structure like this for $93,000? No, Walker, I don't believe you. What do you rea...( read more)
Boorman's use of the footstep track overlaying the montage of pictures in the intro-title sequence has quite simply NEVER been matched in terms of set-up: threat, menace, conflict, self-destruction and retribution all summed up in three minutes ..
Wow! This is probably THE ULTIMATE Lee Marvin film. And along with Get Carter, the ultimate revenge film.
Tough dialogue, incredible fights and Marvin ozzes badass! Oh yea, its a John Boorman film also!
They dont make them like they used too!
Seeing this film on afternoon TV when I was a child (off school that day) left an indelible image in my mind of Marvin in his gray suit strutting along that office corridor, pounding his shoes onto the floor.
This film is one of the best and most important American genre films ...( read more)
What makes Point Blank so extraordinary is Boorman's virtuoso use of such unconventional avant-garde stylistics to saturate the proceedings with a classical noir mood of existential torpor and romanti... full review
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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