60 reviews
Sales Rank: 11238

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 92
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: D67414D
ISBN: 1419807501
UPC: 012569674141
EAN: 9781419807503
ASIN: B00097DY2A

Theatrical Release Date: August 30, 1967
Release Date: July 5, 2005
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Amazon.com
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

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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2 out of 5 stars

Point Blank - Lee Marvin June 6, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

After reading the reviews online I purchased the video believing it would be another great performance by Lee Marvin and others.
He IS a great actor and yet, from just moments after it starts the director has him stoic, cold, acting strangely as tho in a coma, his actions in the fight scene are more like a faggot fighting for his purse instead of the man we all enjoyed in Marine/combat/fight scenes like Emporer of the North and Prime Cut ...
And the movie dragged on with bizarre directing of his actions to be partially there and barely acting like the man he was ... I guess the director was trying to exhibit odd emotional replies to the circumstances, but all it comes off is - a Poorly made movie for a Great actor. He was stymied of his natural acting abilities by this fool.
The music was offbeat also and added to the distorted style of mental frame of mind attempted by this offbeat director.

It was a waste of time and money to have ever made this film much less buy and sit through it until the end hoping it would finally get better.

In most cases Marvin looks away from anyone asking him or answering him as tho he has a care about what's going on . His facial expression is of being crazed almost !

Go ahead, make someones day by buying this junk to see if I'm wrong !!

I'll sell you mine right now for cheap !!
Hurry b/c I'll be taking it to the target range soon if it's not sold !

4 out of 5 stars

This icy cold revenge thriller creates a world all its own June 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

"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.

4 out of 5 stars

The Lonely Business of Revenge Is Ripe for Exploitation. May 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Released in 1967, "Point Blank" bridges the gap between the neo-noir films of the late 1950s and 1960s that mixed elements of classic noir with social conscience filmmaking and those of the 1970s, with their disillusioned protagonists and increasing explicitness. Walker (Lee Marvin) was a cool, competent crook, convinced by his old friend Mal Reese (John Vernon) to help heist money from some other crooks on Alcatraz Island. But Reese shot Walker, left him for dead, and took off with Walker's unfaithful wife Lynne (Sharon Acker). A year later, Walker wants revenge, he wants Reese dead, and he wants his $93,000. A mysterious mobster (Keenan Wynn) who seeks control of the criminal syndicate of which Reese is a part is happy to facilitate Walker's vendetta.

"Point Blank" was director John Boorman's first color film, and he made good use of the palette, often dominating scenes with a single hue. Although it basically has a continuous timeline, the film takes brief excursions back in time, uses some slow motion photography, and, at one point, confuses us with images that exist only in Lee's mind, if at all. This was pretty risky for a studio film in 1967, and it works well. The fact that Walker is as much a criminal as his enemies is forgotten in a world where everyone is corrupt. Lee Marvin is great at this stoic, fixated kind of masculinity, but he does seem conspicuously old for the women Walker attracts. "Point Blank" is one man's revenge-driven journey, made memorable by so frequently doing the unexpected.

The DVD (Warner Brothers 2005): There are 2 featurettes, a theatrical trailer, and a feature commentary. "The Rock, Pt 1" (8 min) and "The Rock, Pt 2" (9 min) are promotional films made in 1967 about the Alcatraz location. "Point Blank" was the first film to use the abandoned prison, just 4 years after it closed. The documentaries talk about using the prison as a backdrop, interview the director, and interview a former inmate who recalls the 1946 Battle of Alcatraz. The audio commentary by John Boorman and Steven Soderbergh is very good. Soderbergh questions Boorman on various aspects of the film, including the script, structure, collaboration with Lee Marvin, technical details, and interpretations of the film. Subtitles are available for the film in English, French, and Spanish. Dubbing available in French.

4 out of 5 stars

A great Lee Marvin Movie....but.... February 20, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

....Lee Marvin at his finest....but there are so many holes in this plot it looks like swiss cheese! But in 1967 who cared! Get it for Lee's performance!

1 out of 5 stars

OVERBLOWN OVERRATED IDIOCY November 3, 2007
1 out of 16 found this review helpful

INCREDIBLY OVERRATED UNBELIEVABLE NONSENSE--BLOATED SELF IMPORTANT DRIVEL--- BAD DIALOGUE-- NOTHING REMOTELY BELIEVABLE OR INTERESTING HAPPENS BOORMAN THINKS HES BEING HIP OR CUTTING EDGE W THIS NOIR MISFIRE--- ITS VERY ANNOYING GRATING AND JUST PLAIN MISGUIDED--LOTS OF FIGHTS ,SHOOTING THINGS UP-- CHASES--ALL BADLY DONE--- HOLLYWOOD AT ITS WORST AND MOST OUT OF TOUCH---- DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE---- A WASTE OF TIME MONEY ETC----I FOUND IT EMBARASSINGLY INSIPID AND UNWATCHABLE !!!!