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Point Blank | 
 enlarge | Director: John Boorman
Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'connor, Lloyd Bochner
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 3670
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD67414D
ISBN: 1419807501
UPC: 012569674141
EAN: 9781419807503
ASIN: B00097DY2A
Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1967
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
They double-crossed Walker took his $93000 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).Running Time: 92 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569674141
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 63 more reviews...
 One of the worst movies ever. July 1, 2009
Joan E. Cushman (St. Louis Park, MN)
I wanted to see this movie after all these years thinking that it was a forgotten gem. I was wrong. It should be forgotten and avoided at all cost. If I were a studio head at the time this was made and saw it in a preview before it was released, I would have told director John Boorman "to pack it up and change professions". Who would of thought that this was the same director that would go on to direct 1972's "Deliverance".
As for Lee Marvin's peformance? It is clearly his worst. All the acting is bad and the entire cast is wasted on this mess. The dialog by Lee Marvin's wife in an early scene is rambling, excessive, exhausting and laughable. A scene that Mel Brooks would have been proud of and embarassed by it at the same time. The final and nicest thing I can say about this mess is stay away from it. See 1994's The Professional" instead. It is a masterpiece.
 Hasn't aged well June 18, 2009
Carlotta (Alexandria, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unless you are a real fan of New Age and 1970s-era lonely films with jazz in the background, skip this. The scenery, clothing and cast are so firmly of the age that it feels at times like parody of this type of film. Every other shot is of an empty bed, empty diner, empty building -- OK, we get it, we're all alone. It just dragged for me.
 2.5 stars out of 4 June 10, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Bottom Line:
Frankly overrated, Point Blank largely consists of Lee Marvin drudging his his way up the San Francisco criminal food chain to find out who set him up, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake; if you've seen any sort of revenge thriller you'll have a good idea what's going to happen, and you'll probably long for a more interesting or expressive actor in the lead.
 The Great Boorman and Marvin at Their Best May 10, 2009
Dennis Patrick (North Texas)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Point Blank is a hard-edged existential classic reflecting the talents of two very intelligent creative artists: John Boorman and Lee Marvin. It is amazing that a major studio like MGM allowed such a hard-boiled and somewhat challenging story presentation without the usual meddling for commercialism and political correctness (though the term PC hadn't been invented in 1967). A perfect meshing of style, plot, acting. Ex-USMC leatherneck Marvin is the real deal. Angie Dickinson is still at her prime and you can see why Jack and Bobby Kennedy, among notable others, had the hots for her. Influential and worth repeated viewings.
Somewhere between beat and hippie March 25, 2009
Greg Christy (Iowa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a wild portrayal of this period. FUN! I get where is shows the transition from beatnik to hippie. Something you might see at a Beatnik Coffee House. Cool man, cool!
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