Point Blank

    Point Blank
    1967

    Synopsis

    After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

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    Cast

    • Lee MarvinWalker
    • Angie DickinsonChris
    • Keenan WynnYost
    • Carroll O'ConnorBrewster
    • Lloyd BochnerFrederick Carter
    • Michael StrongStegman
    • John VernonMal Reese
    • Sharon AckerLynne
    • James B. SikkingHired Gun
    • Sandra WarnerWaitress

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Slant Magazine

      Though Point Blank is rife with existential malaise, it is also one of the most ferociously sexy crime movies ever made.
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      The ultimate arty 60s thriller, and we mean that as a compliment.
    • 100

      Empire

      Showing that "the little man" CAN make a difference. Marvin is exceptional.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      Point Blank smartly joins film-noir elements with techniques from the then-cresting British, French, and Italian new waves.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      An intriguing, disorientating 60s artefact.
    • 80

      The Observer (UK)

      A landmark in the history of the crime movie, Point Blank's expressive feeling for landscape and architecture anticipates Michael Mann's Heat.
    • 80

      Time Out

      At times, it feels a touch self-conscious – a box of directorial tricks employed to compensate for an occasional lack of real substance elsewhere.
    • 80

      CineVue

      Pre-dating the release of Dennis Hopper’s 1969 American counter-culture classic Easy Rider by two years, Boorman’s Point Blank is also a very trippy, psychedelic affair. Marvin fending off two assailants behind the colourful, swirling backdrop of an avant-garde jazz gig is an evocative snapshot of that period, and just one of the many fetchingly abstract moments this strange and beguiling picture has to offer.

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