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Point Blank (2005)

Lee Marvin , Angie Dickinson , John Boorman  |  Unrated |  DVD
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Carroll O'Connor, Keenan Wynn
  • Directors: John Boorman
  • Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Dubbed: French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00097DY2A
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,670 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Point Blank" on IMDb

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  • Vintage featurettes: The Rock part 1 and The Rock part 2

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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 for 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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Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn. A double-crossed thug who has been cut out of the dollars from a major heist and left for dead somehow doesn't die. Now he returns with an unconscionable vengeance to claim his money and pay back" the LA Mob. 1967/color/92 min/NR/widescreen.

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The soundtrack is very good, too. James Tetreault  |  10 reviewers made a similar statement
The plot as a whole has very few major surprises, although there is one minor twist in the end. Daniel C. Markel  |  8 reviewers made a similar statement
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81 of 85 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic noir thriller finally available on DVD July 16, 2005
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Leave it to John Boorman to combine the stylized storytelling of French New Wave with American film noir in "Point Blank". This fascinating, challenging movie was made in 1967 when the film world was in the embrace of experimental film. Although it's quite different from "Blow Up", the storytelling style is just as stylized and unique. Lee Marvin plays Walker a criminal cheated out of $93,000 from a robbery of a mob like syndicate on Alcatraz by his best friend Reese(John Vernon). Participating in the heist/murder is Walker's young wife who has been having an affair with Reese. After getting the money, Reese shoots his friend, takes his wife and leaves him for dead on Alcatraz.

With the help of a mysterious benefactor (Keenan Wynn), Walker tracks down Reese exacting revenge in pursuit for what he's owed. When his wife commits suicide, Walker seeks out her sister Chris (Angie Dickinson)in hope of luring Reese out of hiding. From there this convoluted mystery spins more threads than director John Boorman knows what to do with but, surprisingly, he keeps the story from getting too tangled up.

Boorman and director Steven Soderbergh ("Ocean's 11", "Solaris", "Sex Lies and Videotape")provide a fascinating commentary track on the making of the movie. Boorman recalls that originally Lee Marvin wanted Peggy Lee for the role that Dickinson plays. While he went with Boorman's decision of Dickinson he wasn't very nice to his co-star which worked particularly during the scene where Dickinson starts hitting Marvin. Dickinson hit Marvin so hard he had bruises the next day but the actor stoically took the hits and the camera kept rolling.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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This review is for the Warner Brothers DVD released in 2005.

`Point Blank' starts out in an abandoned Alcatraz Prison circa 1967 where Walker (Lee Marvin), his wife, and Mal Reese (John Vernon - probably best remembered as Dean Wormer in `Animal House') rob an apparently illegal money payoff. Once the money is counted, Reese shoots Walker in a prison cell leaving him for dead and takes Walker's $93,000. Walker recovers from the shooting and with the help of a stranger named Yost (Keenan Wynn), Walker finds out that Reese and Walker's wife ran off to Los Angeles and Reese is now a big player in a major crime syndicate. This sets up the rest of the movie where Walker hunts down Reese but also wants all of this $93,000 back.

The movie is clearly dark in mood and substance, even though it was filmed in vibrant color. Angie Dickenson plays the role of Walker's sister-in-law Chris, who helps him find Reese. The chemistry between Chris and Walker seems overtly empty and melancholy. An animated Carroll O'Conner (best known for playing Archie Bunker in 'All in the Family') brings a lot of energy to the last segment of the movie. The film has an unmistakably late `60's look with fast and chaotic flashbacks and over-accentuated sound effects - such as loud, reverberating footsteps when an intensely focused Lee Marvin is hunting down Reese. This movie is more sexual and violent than noir films of the `40's and `50's, but is still restrained by today's standards. The film's biggest asset is how Lee Marvin confronts and handles his adversaries - each situation is original and effective, but not over the top. The plot as a whole has very few major surprises, although there is one minor twist in the end.
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It's about time this movie got released on DVD.

It's odd that a film could spawn a remake ("Payback"), a glib nod ("Grosse Pointe Blank") and countless homages ("The Limey," among others) and still be as underseen as "Point Blank."

The lack of a disc certainly didn't help its low profile, but of course this is a challenging, idiosyncratic movie, even three decades later. The plot is simple -- a crook is betrayed by his wife and partner and spends the rest of the movie trying to get what he's owed -- but the editing and narrative structure is unusual. What in the world did audiences possibly make of this back when it was first released?

It's a remarkable film, as startling and innovative as Richard Lester's "Petulia," although admittedly it's thematically much less complex.

This edition is excellent, too. Great sound, great picture and a fantastic commentary by director John Boorman and big-time "Point" fan Steven Soderbergh, who laughingly admits to Boorman that he's ripped this movie off more than a few times. Their chat is more technical than gossipy and deals heavily with the editing, the production (the script was only 70 pages long), the studio's concerns about the picture, the actors, violence, surrealism (is it all a dream?) and Boorman's elaborate use of color (the tones of clothing and sets intensify over the course of the film).

I've gotten a lot of good DVD's this year but in terms of content, presentation and extas, this is one of the best.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Parker is out for revenge.
This movie is the first screen adaptation of Richard Starks novel "The Hunter", other one's being Mel Gibsons "Payback" and Jason Strathams' "Parker". Read more
Published 11 days ago by Pete
5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated classic gangster film from the 1960s
Lee Marvin was never better than this gritty, sometimes brutal gangster film from the late 1960s that was incredibly intense and stylish at the same time. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Richard Motroni
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice item
Another item bought for an out of state friend with whom I have not discussed his reaction. I just buy.
Published 19 days ago by Karen Rogers
5.0 out of 5 stars Point Blank (Lee Marvin)
Simply the best film Lee Marvin ever made. Even if you don't like anything else he's in, you'll be taken with Point Blank. Classic!
Published 1 month ago by Henry
4.0 out of 5 stars Point Blank -- worth watching
It's not a very good adaptation of the original Richard Stark novel, but as a piece of 1960's cinema it's first-rate. Lee Marvin has one of his greatest iconic roles. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ulysses7245
5.0 out of 5 stars Walker is coming and he's out for justice!
With the relentlessness, of Yul Brynner's robot character in Westworld, Walker, in the person of Lee Marvin, spends the entire movie hunting down his prey after being left for dead... Read more
Published 3 months ago by still searching
5.0 out of 5 stars One of Lee's best
I have seen it several times, mostly on TV. The recent Gibson remake does not measure well against it. A taut, well-done pean of obsession and revenge.
Published 3 months ago by sapo45
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie.
Lee Marvin fan and I enjoy a lot of the older movies. Wanted to see it because the new movie "Parker" is a remake of "Point Blank".
Published 3 months ago by Bob Anderson
1.0 out of 5 stars Awful
Thought it was great when I was 19. :-)
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Published 4 months ago by SpinChin
4.0 out of 5 stars "Walker's beautiful. He's just tearing you apart."
To echo someone's observation, there are times in POINT BLANK when Lee Marvin's character, moving with implacable precision, comes off as an early precursor to Schwarzenegger's... Read more
Published 4 months ago by H. Bala
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