Point Blank
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Movie Reviews of Point Blank
Movie Review: FINALLY!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is one of the all-time greats! And now, it is FINALLY on DVD! I grabbed it up the first day (two days ago now) and watch it for the first time with commentary from Boorman with Steven Soderbergh. WOW! Great insight into the mind of the director and into the backstage mechanics of getting such a challenging film made! They talk scripts, lenses, character and locations and so much more. One really funny story is about how Boorman believes that the script that Gibson made Payback with closely resembles the script that Lee Marvin originally read, then threw out a window. Nice.
It's troubling that this DVD has gone into Special Order mode here on Amazon, just two days after its release. I know that there's not a lot of demand for this film (as tragic as that is), but come on!
One last thing: Look, don't buy this movie if you want the story handed to you, okay? If you like linear, A to B, B to C storytelling, this movie is not for you. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with this kind of storytelling, it's just not what you'll find in Point Blank.
But if you want to stretch your ideas of what story can be, definitely take a look at this film! And if you do, just remember...this story may or may not really take place...it may just be all in someone's mind.
Movie Review: A film to make you think , or just submerge into its world
Summary: 5 Stars
Some of you may be reading reviews about this film and think , OK , everyone seems to love it , but could I sit through it ?
There are lots of classics out there , but some are as interesting as watching paint dry . Or maybe half as interesting as that .
The story of POINT BLANK can be taken on more than one level .
Really , for your money , you are getting a film three times as interesting as most of the stuff that passes for serious film today . And if you're still not sure after watching it , listen to the commentary which will fill in some of the gaps .
Or , leave it for a while and come back to it .
This film will work on your imagination and to describe it takes the fun out of it .
There are elements of Dirty Harry and there is an exploration of violence .
Take a chance on this one - fine acting and a solid story .
Movie Review: Ghost Walker
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like this kind of thing, then this is the kind of thing you'll like. Great commentary by Boorman and Soderbergh explains a lot. Basically, it didn't happen. Walker didn't kill anybody. Sean Axmaker's review is hilarious: he must have been watching with his eyes wide shut. Somebody said "Don't Look Now", and switched the film on. Very surreal, very dreamlike. It has to be all going on in Walker's head, by which is meant Boorman's head, or ours. And what's the time-frame? Two months, two hours, or two seconds? Fascinating, if ultimately slightly dissatisfying; and the kind of film-making where the director does what takes his fancy, without worrying too much whether he's taking his audience with him. Take it or leave it. Well, I took it, but too many flicks along these lines would get tiresome.Movie Review: This is where 40's noir went in the 1960's
Summary: 5 Stars
No, it's not full of Raymond Chandler style simile's. No, there's no voiceover. There's no Bogie or Bacall, but Lee Marvin is more believable taking on the syndicate in this movie than Bogie could ever be. And Angie Dickinson serves quite nicely as replacement eye candy for Lauren Bacall, thank you. The soundtrack is very good, too.
The depiction of the corporatized mob is also brilliant. Carroll O'Connor is excellent as the surprisingly energetic mob middle manager.
I saw an interview with Schlesinger in which he said that Lee Marvin completely improvised his silence in the scene where he meets up again with his girlfriend. He was supposed to say some fairly standard things ripping her for leaving him but decided it'd play better not saying a thing. It does.
Movie Review: Early John Boorman
Summary: 5 Stars
Based on Richard Stark's (aka Donald Westlake) novel THE HUNTER Lee Marvin is Walker (the character was Parker in the book and in the Mel Gibson remake, Porter) is out to get the crooked partner and his wife. Shot up and left for dead on Alcatraz, they take off the $93,000 haul on a job which Walker's buddy steals to buy his way into the Syndicate. One of Marvin's most subdued performances, it makes him more coldly meancing when he erupts into violence. Also featuring Angie Dickinson (who had worked with Marvin several years earlier on THE KILLERS), John Vernon (the Mayor in DIRTY HARRY), Keenan Wynn and Carol O'Connor. This is a mean tale of revenge and an ending that will surprise you.