Point Blank
They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they didn't finish the job. Big mistake. He - someday, somehow - is going to finish them. Lee Marvin is in full antihero mode as remorseless Walker, talking the talk and walking the walk in John Boorman's (Deliverance) edgy neo-noir classic filled with imaginative New Wave style, blunt dialogue and Walker's relentless quest that, one by one, smashes into the corporate pecking order of a crime group called the Organization. Angie Dickinson plays the accomplice who uses her seductive wiles to ensnare one of Walker's prey. "I want my 93 grand," Walker growls at him. Throughout, the payoff to that demand is action that "hits like a fat slug from the .38 Lee Marvin uses as an extension of his fist" (Newsweek).
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Good gangster film but a bit too odd for me - Coconut_Willy
One thing that I dislike about a film almost as much as dream sequences are flashbacks and this one has quite a few of them. After watching it, I do (somewhat) understand why the director wanted to include them but I still don't like it. At the beginning of the movie for sure, it only makes it difficult to tell what is happening and what has happened before. Anyway, that's just my personal taste. The storyline is very good and very well developed. The action escalation is very well made as the unrelenting Walker character climbs up the ladder of 'The Organization' demanding his money but obviously looking for something else. The cast is very good doing a very good acting job with a good dialogue. Lee Marvin in particular is excellent. The sets and locations are also very good including a number of scenes in the Alcatraz prison which had closed down just a few years before. The soundtrack is appropriate as well as the camera work. Being a crime drama fan does not guarantee that you will like this one as it is a bit odd but, despite the dreaded flashbacks, this movie is quite good. The transfer to DVD is also of good quality with a few extras dating back to this movie's release.Action done right - Jimmy_Jam
The film starts off a little wooden, mainly because of Walker's wife, but easily becomes one of the best action flicks I have ever seen; right up there with Dirty Harry. The term action film is kind of a dirty word now-a-days, but I mean it in all seriousness. This is a gritty, violent, and veangeful film. The image of Walker stomping down a bright hallway, his shoes clicking like a clock, is a brilliant way to look at the movie. Like Walker, it is fierce in its pacing and full of rage like a ticking bomb; the direction captures the themes of the film and amplifies them. In the end, it is hard not to be caught up in Walker's quest. He is the ultimate anti-hero.Point Blank - Coco
The phalanx is down; out of the universal feast of death, may it be that someday love shall mount? One of the key US films of the 60s, Point Blank is about giving up the ghost. The deathgasm, so to speak. Freud stuff. It is also the truest film about space and the way eyes synthetically appropriate everything in it, around it, and by virtue of it…at least after Vertigo. John Boorman is interested in the materialist demarcations of new wave filmmaking and the way virtual and actual form the real, synthetically. Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Rivette, and Alain Resnais are the key influences. The camera is a negating consciousness, an inverted protuberance, the good death in protracted, existential becoming-still-life. The film is in many ways a pragmatic noir apogee, a slow Freddie Hubbard trumpet solo, and a smooth toke from a soapy water bong in the back of a Cadillac. Lee Marvin is the too-cool-to-care antihero who plays destiny like a comb-and-wax-paper kazoo. Every suit matches the wallpaper. Like Le Samourai, this might easily be mistaken for the world’s greatest Scotch add. Or cigarettes. Whatever it is, I want some.
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Good gangster film but a bit too odd for me - Coconut_Willy
One thing that I dislike about a film almost as much as dream sequences are flashbacks and this one has quite a few of them. After watching it, I do (somewhat) understand why the director wanted to include them but I still don't like it. At the beginning of ...Action done right - Jimmy_Jam
The film starts off a little wooden, mainly because of Walker's wife, but easily becomes one of the best action flicks I have ever seen; right up there with Dirty Harry. The term action film is kind of a dirty word now-a-days, but I mean it in all seriousness. ...Point Blank - Coco
The phalanx is down; out of the universal feast of death, may it be that someday love shall mount? One of the key US films of the 60s, Point Blank is about giving up the ghost. The deathgasm, so to speak. Freud stuff. It is also the truest film about space ...