Synopsis
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
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Cast
- Gilles LelloucheSamuel Pierret
- Roschdy ZemHugo Sartet
- Gérard LanvinCommander Patrick Werner
- Elena AnayaNadia Pierret
- Mireille PerrierCommander Catherine Fabre
- Claire PérotCaptain Anaïs Susini
- Moussa MaaskriCaptain Vogel
- Pierre BenoistCaptain Mercier
- Valérie DashwoodCaptain Moreau
- Virgile BramlyCaptain Mansart
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
Another sparkling thriller from the "Anything For Her" director. See it, then wait for the inevitable US remake. - 80
Wall Street Journal
If you lop off the closing credits of Fred Cavayé's preposterously exciting - and pleasingly preposterous - French-language thriller, the running time is a mere 80 minutes. Not since "Run Lola Run" has the term been used more aptly. - 70
Variety
Unlike John Boorman's trippy 1967 L.A. noir of the same title, frenetic Gallic suspenser Point Blank provides few existential thrills but plenty of heart-racing action as it follows one man's marathon dash to save his kidnapped wife from execution. - 70
Village Voice
No good deed goes unpunished in former fashion photographer Fred Cavayé's cunningly contrived, energetically directed, thoroughly economical second feature. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A high-wire act that almost slips as it edges perilously closer and closer to the edge of improbability. But it never does. - 67
IndieWire
An impressive feat that relies on distraction rather than fancy effects, it's easy to get swept up and forget that it's a very sweaty retread that's been done many times before. - 67
The A.V. Club
The actors' charisma is a draw, but mostly, the movie relies on Pavlovian reaction to the genre: The audience has its designated place as surely as any element in Cavayé's relentless machine. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
Thrilling and suspenseful without an American star like Russell Crowe or an excess of explosions.
