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1971
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But if they'd forked over, there wouldn't have been a movie, and as suspense thrillers go "Point Blank" is pretty good. It gets back into the groove of Hollywood thrillers, after the recent glut of spies, counterspies, funny spies, anti-hero spies and spy-spier spies.
Shot with hard-hitting inventiveness and performed with pitiless cool by Lee Marvin, Point Blank is a revenge thriller that exemplifies that exemplifies the genre's strengths with extreme...
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Influenced by Antonioni's color symbolism and Resnais' fragmented chronology, Point Blank is a lyrical, multi layered, and truly singular film noir that was the best and most daringly abstract American film released in 1967.
Dec 10, 2019 · UK-born film-maker John Boorman’s American debut Point Blank (1967) is one of my most favorite noir cinema made long after the official end of the film-noir era. In fact, Point Blank exemplifies the dawn of the new American cinema, alongside the subversive works like Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate (released in the same year).
Point Blank: Directed by John Boorman. With Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor. After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him.
The film holds a score of 93% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 40 reviews with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Shot with hard-hitting inventiveness and performed with pitiless cool by Lee Marvin, Point Blank is a revenge thriller that exemplifies the genre's strengths with extreme prejudice."
A man (Gilles Lellouche) finds himself pitted against rival gangsters and trigger-happy police in a deadly race to save the lives of his kidnapped wife and unborn child.
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Point Blank - Metacritic. 1967. Not Rated. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) 1 h 32 m. Summary After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him. Crime.
