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- The notion of pouring European films into Hollywood molds didn't work out recently with "The Vanishing" (1993), but "Point of No Return" is actually a fairly effective and faithful adaptation, and Bridget Fonda manages the wild identity-swings of her role with intensity and conviction, although not the same almost poetic sadness that Anne Parillaud brought to the original movie.
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Mar 19, 1993 · Directed by. John Badham. "Point of No Return" is a "Pygmalion" for our angry age. In both stories, an older teacher picks a girl out of the gutter and teaches her new skills. Professor Higgins taught Eliza to act like a lady, and now Bob teaches Maggie to be a lady and a cold-blooded assassin.
A strung-out junkie named Maggie (Bridget Fonda) kills a police officer during the botched robbery of a drug store. After being sentenced to die at her trial, she is given a mysterious second ...
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- John Badham
- R
- Bridget Fonda
Mar 19, 1993 · Point of No Return: Directed by John Badham. With Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Miguel Ferrer. A government fakes the death of a criminal to turn this young woman into a killer on its service.
- (30K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- John Badham
- 1993-03-19
Point of No Return (International title: The Assassin) is a 1993 American action film directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda and Gabriel Byrne. It is a remake of Luc Besson's 1990 film La Femme Nikita.
Mar 19, 1993 · A government fakes the death of a criminal to turn this young woman into a killer on its service. (The American version of "La Femme Nikita," the 1991 French thriller by Luc Besson.)
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- John Badham
- R
- Bridget Fonda
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom killer and subdued into obedience.
In Point of No Return, a pointless remake of the slickly violent 1990 import La Femme Nikita, Fonda unconvincingly attempts to fill French actress Anne Parillaud's skyscraper pumps as a punkish cop killer turned government assassin.
