Point Blank
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Movie Reviews of Point Blank
Movie Review: Great, stark time capsule for its era
Summary: 4 Stars
POINT BLANK is one of the best cinematic representations of that stark, sun-bleached, urban mood which dominated the mid-to-late-1960s but rarely gets referred to--- people talk about "protest" and "tumult" yet rarely refer to the almost post-apocalyptic zeitgeist of the era.
The atonal score; the "echo-y" resonance of the thing; the claw-your-neck, angsty atmoshpere; the diffused lighting; that window-screen camera trick; the jazz bar; those aloof neon lights at night; even that car lot.... it's all just sooooo very, very 1966/67...
It's just like the metaphorically appropriate name of the film: in-your-face ("POINT") yet oddly hollow ("BLANK").
For any younger person looking to see what the cities tended to feel like at that time, POINT BLANK is one of the better movie examples of the period you could point to.
In order to capture that invigorating, counterculture, echo-chamber resonance that made the '60s so poignant and memorable, then you also have to capture (what Walter Cronkite once described correctly as) that "slum of a decade" vibe as well.
They're both true: sunlight across an open field, and crud glued into the cracks of an urban sidewalk.
Without one, you miss the irony of the '60s that so defined it.
(Not that all this is perfectly actualized in this movie, necessarily, but you get the idea).
...Also, the DVD has two brief extras (both entitled "The Rock") which focus on Alcatraz Prison and also convey the same lost, disillusioned flavor of time which was so captivating yet confounding --- in fact, these two extras show you much MORE of Alcatraz than the movie itself winds up doing, so something must have been left on the cutting room floor.
Movie Review: Lee Marvin's best
Summary: 4 Stars
Finally it's in dvd. Been looking for it for years. Point Blank is Lee Marvin's best movie, the best character for him, and has his best tag line. I'll leave that for you to find. (It has to with seat belts.) The movie is aptly named. The plot is steam-roller direct, but the director uses some arty time-lapse devices that either distract by conflicting with the directness of the character and the plot, or enhance by providing depth and interest, I can't decide. But they do jarr a little and seem dated. I suppose I do like the uniqueness they add. It's a really good Lee Marvin movie, and Angie Dickinson to boot. Who remembers her answer when Johnny Carson asked her whether she dressed to please herself or others? Memorable.Movie Review: Innovative noir
Summary: 4 Stars
Double-crossed by his best friend (John Vernon) and his wife (Sharon Acker), a tough guy (Lee Marvin) works his way up the hierarchy of a criminal syndicate in a quest for revenge and his money.
Director John Boorman adds interest to his straightforward narrative with techniques that are occasionally disorienting and always illustrative of his protagonist's bleak state of mind. Marvin is at his best as a man who sublimates his humanity in service of his objective. The possibility some reviewers cite that the whole film might be the fantasy of a dying man slipped by me, so I may watch it again some day.
Movie Review: A great Lee Marvin Movie....but....
Summary: 4 Stars
....Lee Marvin at his finest....but there are so many holes in this plot it looks like swiss cheese! Is Lee's character a ghost or not? And first one thinks so but then ambiguities start to appear. And just *WHO* is Keenan Wynn's character? How does he know so much? And after all those initial murders on Alcatraz don't you think the authorities would have closed it down & why would the mob keep using it as a drop off point?? But in 1967 who cared? A good movie to see while trippin'. Get it for Lee's performance!Movie Review: This icy cold revenge thriller creates a world all its own
Summary: 4 Stars
"Point Blank" is an icy cold revenge thriller from 1967, heavily influenced in style by the French "New Wave". The continual jump cutting and flashbacks are confusing and the cacophonous musical score date it somewhat, but this is an entertaining film right until the very end. "Point Blank" is one of the few films to successfully create a strange world all of its own.