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Point Blank (1967)

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Reviews Counted:22

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Rotten:1

Average Rating:8/10

Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Lee Marvin stars as the lethal Walker in director John Boorman's stunningly stylized daylight noir, POINT BLANK. Mal Reese (John Vernon), Walker's partner in crime, shoots him and leaves him for... Lee Marvin stars as the lethal Walker in director John Boorman's stunningly stylized daylight noir, POINT BLANK. Mal Reese (John Vernon), Walker's partner in crime, shoots him and leaves him for dead on desolate Alcatraz Island just after they've pulled off a huge heist. For good measure, Reese also makes off with Walker's perfidious wife, Lynne (Sharon Acker). A couple of years later, while touring Alcatraz, Walker is approached by a man named Yost (Keenan Wynn) who offers to help him get his cut of the take by leading him to Reese and Lynne in exchange for information about the mysterious organization that now includes the thief's ex-partner. Walker agrees. He first runs down Lynne in L.A. and says hello by burying a few rounds in her bed but leaves her unharmed. Long ago abandoned by Reese, she's disintegrating emotionally and attempts to babble an explanation of her actions to the indifferent Walker. With the help of Lynne's sister, Chris (Angie Dickinson), Walker gains access to Reese's seemingly impregnable penthouse apartment, and the former partners' reunion is less than blissful. One of the best thrillers of the 1960s, the film's deadpan amorality and fragmented Resnais-influenced narrative, echoed in the startling camera angles and obliquely gorgeous anamorphic compositions of high-testosterone specialist Philip Lathrop (THE CINCINNATI KID), make clear why POINT BLANK has slowly become one of the most influential noirs. [More]

Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Carroll O'Connor, Keenan Wynn

Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Carroll O'Connor, Keenan Wynn, Lloyd Bochner, Michael Strong, John Vernon, Sharon Acker, James B. Sikking

Director: John Boorman

Director: John Boorman
Producer: Judd Bernard
Composer: Johnny Mandel

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  • 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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    04/13/08
    Cole Smithey
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    Gritty, raw crime drama featuring tough Lee Marvin.

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    02/21/08
    Steve Crum
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    O roteiro pouco inspirado ganha novos contornos graças à performance durona de Marvin e, principalmente, as experiências de montagem feitas por Henry Berman.

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    03/24/07
    Pablo Villaca
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    Cinema em Cena

    Heady stuff, and the third best film of 1967.

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    07/01/06
    Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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    07/16/05
    Emanuel Levy
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    ...one of the best, toughest, and most grimly cold-blooded mystery noirs Hollywood has given us.

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    06/28/05
    John J. Puccio
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    Marvin carries much of the film on his gravelly, innate charm, but even he can't sustain one note that long

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    06/25/05
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    04/28/05
    Nell Minow
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    Influenced by the classy Euro-art style of French director Alain Resnais.

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    01/30/05
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    11/20/04
    Matt Bailey
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    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.

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    10/23/04
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    07/30/03
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    Scary and exciting at the same time, establishing Lee Marvin as the original Terminator.

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    07/30/03
    Bryant Frazer
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    What makes Point Blank so extraordinary is Boorman’s virtuoso use of such unconventional avant-garde stylistics to saturate the proceedings with a classical noir mood of existential torpor and romanticized fatalism.

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    07/24/03
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