Product Details

• Actors: Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Frederic Forrest, Werner Schreyer, Michael Wright
• Directors: Matt Earl Beesley
• Writers: Cary Solomon, Chuck Konzelman, Daniel Raskov, Jim Bannon
• Producers: Cary Solomon, Chuck Konzelman, Daniel Raskov
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Studio / Sterling
• VHS Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305177864
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #368,871 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Strictly for late-night laughs, this ultraviolent action flick fails to make sense even of its own premise. A busload of Texas convicts are freed when heavily armed commandos open fire on them. The survivors and commandos take over a shopping mall, gathering numerous hostages together, shooting them when the mood strikes, or just to thin the acting herd. One mall guard shouts hysterically into his walkie-talkie until a compassionate squib puts him out of his misery. Behind this bold prison break is an infamous money launderer (Paul Ben-Victor), whom we may thank for all the weaponry, and Joe Ray (Kevin Gage), whose brother Ruby Ray (Mickey Rourke), a former Texas Ranger, has infiltrated the mall stronghold in order to get his brother out. What follows is plenty of violence, with big guys like Danny Trejo refusing to die no matter how many bullets hit him. Should be rated R for excessive use of improbabilities and gratuitous voiceover narration.--Jim Gay

Customer Reviews

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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NEGATIVE 5 STARS!, May 23, 2000

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Gabe Michael Bugielski - See all my reviews

This review is from: Point Blank (DVD)

"Point Blank" is the most offensively stupid movie out there. It boggles the mind knowing that when the makers put this movie together, they were actually being serious about their work.

The action sequences, the dialogue, and the overall plot of the movie is so shamelessly horrible, further words about it couldn't describe it.

The scriptwriter put the Marine Corps in way too many characters' background, probably just because he thought it would make the movie cooler. Pathetic.

You can't really blame the director or actors because they can only work with what was written in the first place. Still, they should be ashamed for even having their names associated with this film.

The only reason you should buy this movie is so you can BURN IT WITHOUT EVEN OPENING THE CASE!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step aside Wrestler, Micky Rourke's true claim to fame is Point Blank, November 13, 2009

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Sid the Elf (North Pole) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Point Blank (DVD)

Thanks to an 80's/90's childhood filled with lots of food, movies, and good times we learned it takes some very simple things in life to make us happy. Sitting on top of the list is one of the world's finest movie genres known as action B. It's brought us timeless classics like Death Ring, Money to Burn, and Delta Force 2 leaving us feeling very comfortable when we decided to move forward with Point Blank. By seeing Micky Rourke (at his most washed up acting stage)was headlining the event we figured at the very minimum there would be about 3 stars worth of laughs. However it turned into an easy 5 star event inspired by the same type of laughs Ninja Vengeance brought on. It's very rare to come across that special kind of action b that keeps you entertained the whole way through, but thanks to Mickey Rourke this one's a new classic in Sid's top 10.

The plot, that was probably whipped up in 35 minutes, centers around former mercenary Texas Ranger Rudy Ray (Rourke) and his con brother Joe Ray. Just fantastic names huh? As Joe Ray is being transferred upstate on of his rich con mates engineers a bus prison break. Now naturally the special ops force feels useless once the cons take a local mall hostage, and must approach the roided up Rudy Ray as he's digging a hole in the front yard. Being that he obviously has nothing better to do he decides to chip in and try to get his brother out of there. Which makes no sense but neither does any of the film. Once Rourke hits the mall he begins taking guy's out with neck snapping/gun blazing force. The laughs just don't stop once you discover one of the fellow cons is Chicano superstar Danny Trejo, who is to the Mexican acting community what Apache is to the Native Americans. Between the deranged cast, with the confusing dialogue, and horrific acting you just can't help but roll on the floor in sheer laughter for an 1hr and a half straight.

So when it comes to the fine B action of the 90's Point Blank will now hold a special place on Sid's all-time favorite list. Being that it's one of those rare films you can probably find at your local food store next to Bandidos for $3.99 it comes with the utmost recommendation from this side of the stocking. It's certainly something we would've stumbled upon in the 90's around 1:30 am on the Movie Channel forcing us to wake Santa up with wild laughter. It is mind-numbingly bad in the greatest way possible. There are more w.t.f moments packed into the entire feature that you almost can't believe what you're seeing. The finest segment of this may be when Rourke and Trejo battle to the death while seductive 90's love scene music plays for 2 minutes straight. Just a priceless film that will be receiving a Woody Award without questions, earning itself a closing with the Drive-In totals:

3 Rourke Roundhouse kicks, 1 sending his victim off a roof plummeting to his death
Uncanny Don Swayze riffle blast slow motion face
5 car explosions
Perverted Justice offender Trejo trying to make a hostage eat his Chorizo
1 Commando style town clearing gun
Playing of Silent Night, even though it wasn't Christmas, while one con get's wasted by barrage of bullets
3 Various action scenes plagued with love scene music, yet there were no love scenes
9 counts of Rourke-Fu
Makeshift zip line Rourke gunfire
and an ultimate finale while head con runs around screaming like a little girl while being chased by Rourke

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The plot is a mess...the acting is lousy...but the violence is top notch !!!, August 30, 2005

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The Jaundiced Eye (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Point Blank (DVD)

If you really don't care if a movie makes any sense, and you prefer graphic violence to good acting...then this may be the DVD for you !!! Otherwise it is a complete piece of trash.

Opening scene: A prison bus full of the slimiest, most degenerate criminals in all of Texas (and that is saying a lot) is "rescued" by a gang of murderous henchmen with rockets and anti-tank weapons. Law enforcement officers are butchered and blown to pieces....the prisoners then travel to a Fort Worth shopping mall and take it over, slashing, blasting and pistol whipping innocent shoppers at will. Why they are going to the mall, rather than simply splitting up and completing their escape is never satisfactorily explained.

Soon they are surrounded by hundreds of law enforcement officers, who serve as easy targets as they wander around the parking lot while the convicts blast them with recoiless rifles and gatling guns mounted on the mall roof. In fact, all law enforcement figures in this movie, particularly the FBI, are depicted as complete idiots who are joyously blasted to smithereens by the convicts....it appears that the author of this wretched "screenplay" has a real problem with authority figures.

If all of this sounds like mindless nonsense, then save yourself some time and money and move on to better movies; otherwise, keep reading...it just gets worse.

Mickey Rourke appears on the scene. He has obviously been lifting weights for the last 10 years and guzzling steroids like M&M's....he is positively huge....as big as Arnold in "Conan the Barbarian", and every bit as amusing. Sweaty and greasy as usual, he is the brother of the convict leader (who orchestrated the escape). Apparently he intends to rescue his brother by sneaking into the mall and killing everyone he sees....how this will rescue his brother is not clear, and who really cares??? because it is a great excuse to sneak around and break people's necks with exotic karate moves and stab them with various sharp objects. If you want a meaningful plot, you should have heeded my warning and stopped reading long ago.

The balance of the movie features naked pole dancing, coke snorting that rivals Al Pacino in Scarface, simulated oral sex, multiple homicides, neck snappings, slow gut stabbings, miscellaneous throat slittings, and even a near-death by table saw. Sure....none of these charming events relate in any way to a meaningful plot, but obviously (since you are still reading this review) you could care less. This is a mindless gore-fest from the opening scene to the final, unsatisfying conclusion (which, as a bonus, features the longest, silliest dying scene since Monty Python and the Holy Grail).

If you enjoy such outrageous "entertainment" (and I must admit that I sometimes do) then this may be just what the doctor (definitely not a psychiatrist) ordered. Otherwise, it is pure, shameless trash that should be banned in all civilized countries (even Texas).