Point of No Return [Blu-ray]

Point of No Return [Blu-ray]
by John Badham

Point of No Return [Blu-ray]

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Actor: Anne Bancroft, Bridget Fonda, Dermot Mulroney, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel
Director: John Badham
Brand: Warner Brothers
Other Contributor: Hans Zimmer
Producer: Art Linson
Writer: Robert Getchell
Writer: Alexandra Seros
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-04-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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"She is society's worst nightmare, an antisocial misfit convicted of murder and sentenced to die. But a covert government agency may be able to transform her into a sleek, cool-as-ice assassin. Bridget Fonda (Single White Female, Jackie Brown) stars as Maggie in this thriller directed by John Badham (WarGames, Stakeout). Dressed to kill, trained to survive, shes set loose in a deadly world where u

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Movie Review: nikita was crazy, simone is just bad!
Summary: 5 Stars

I normally don't appreciate remakes while some have been better...very few succeed. What most people don't realize is that in one example Three Men and a Baby may have been a remake of a French film but the French version was a remake of a 1948 Ford film named 3 Godfathers; better than all the others! There's nothing wrong with that...they keep remaking Shakespeare!

The surprise in Point Of No Return is.... if I had to guess the French sensibility I would have said this version not the Nikita was more like a French film. Nikita, Besson's original film is an exciting, sensationalist bad girl film but in the end she seems more crazy and a little disturbed than bad and the relationship with the boyfriend seems like an unlikely pair, while in the American version she's bad and attempts to become human again in a much more realistic way and with great action set pieces! John Badham made this version because he didn't want audiences to watch a dubbed version of Nikita or to be distracted by subtitles through-out the intriguing action which was set by Besson.

I like both films but I love the Point Of No Return, its priniciple character's motivations are a little more intriguing than hearing Ni-ki-ta like a patient in a mental ward...see that version and you'll know what I mean! She goes from crazy to slightly immature...very sensationalist portrait of a criminal and troubled mind but Simone in the American version goes from anger to drug-free to becoming human and strong. At the end of Nikita I feel she was lucky not to be assassinated but at the end of Point Of No Return I feel Simone will do something wonderful and fascinating in her life as an independent strong woman. If you're going to bother with a happy ending make it one that works in the real world with real people not caricatures.

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Summary of Point of No Return [Blu-ray]

"She is society's worst nightmare, an antisocial misfit convicted of murder and sentenced to die. But a covert government agency may be able to transform her into a sleek, cool-as-ice assassin. Bridget Fonda (Single White Female, Jackie Brown) stars as Maggie in this thriller directed by John Badham (WarGames, Stakeout). Dressed to kill, trained to survive, shes set loose in a deadly world where unexpected romance complicates things even more. Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Anne Bancroft and Harvey Keitel also star.

Point of No Return is one of those Hollywood remakes of a European hit in which one can visualize a committee of studio executives sitting around and saying, "Okay, we know what made the original film unique and different and fun. How can we make that same movie and do exactly the opposite?" For-hire director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) took La Femme Nikita, Luc Besson's undeniably sexy, original, and kitschy French film about a female assassin, and translated it into a calculating, mechanistic American thriller with no distinctive style. Bridget Fonda gamely plays the willowy street punk who becomes a high-society killer, but once that provocative irony is in place, the movie is pretty much a series of by-the-numbers action set pieces. Until, that is, Dermot Mulroney shows up as a love interest; but even that twist can't save this film. You're much better off with the original, subtitles and all. --Tom Keogh

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