Too much of everything

Strong and Moving!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Dreadfully Boring

There's something of the spirit of 'Run, Lola, Run' about this latest thriller to use the title 'Point Blank': a vaguely realistic feel but basically a lot of action, and a plot that does little more than justify one thing happening after another. Indeed, the plot itself isn't realistic at all, and in fact, what starts out as an interesting (albeit somewhat clichéd) story of one man getting embroiled in something above his head soon becomes farcical (the entire police force is corrupt to the point of attempting to murder innocent pregnant women, but don't worry, because two people, one of them a nurse, can two-handedly storm an entire police station...). It's fast-moving and doesn't outstay it's welcome; but it still comes a poor second to John Boorman's wonderful new-wave thriller of the same title.

Bad guys kidnap a nurse's pregnant wife to force him to extricate their injured cohort from the hospital. This French thriller begins with a bang and does not let up until the final credits roll. It sounds like a winner but it's unbelievably stupid, providing further evidence that the French can make thrillers as inept as anything from Hollywood. The overly busy script gets sidetracked with a plot thread about competing police squads and rampant corruption within the force. It is so ridiculously far-fetched that it suggests that a police station is the least safe place to be for an innocent citizen. At least it is not dull and has a running time less than 90 minutes.

Samuel Pierret is a nursing assistant 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?......at just nearly ninety minutes long, this movie doesn't give you time to catch your breath. It's as if someone has been watching those ever increasingly silly Besson produced movies, and made it realistic and plausible.It's shot well, and the cast are magnificent in their respective roles. It never gets boring, and the short running time time doesn't leave the narrative redundant.And despite the many plot twists, it's rich in its storytelling.Forget Taken 2, and see this, you'll thank yourself.

Good movie---Definitely, definitely hooks you early, and keeps you watching throughout--it helps that the movie's pace never ever flags even for a minute--the entire movie is a very tight 84 minutes or so--and everything that happens really drives the story forward. The only thing is obviously the movie doesn't entirely hold up to the strictest of logic if you think about it after wards--but truthfully most action movies don't--this one at least makes sense while you're watching it, there's never a point where you think "oh come on!" i mean especially the last big set piece in the movie which is what the last 20 minutes or so? that's a really well set up sequence and if the movie had been even slightly slower then it was--it might not have worked as well as it did--but it does because the movie's been so good up to that point that you really just have to go with it and hold on til the end. I say this because my mind kept thinking even at the end when he finally gets the uh well no spoilers here but when he finally gets what he's been after the entire time i kept thinking oh man someone's totally gonna kill him! he's never gonna make it out of there in time! he's never gonna get to his wife in time! he's never gonna....but then again--that prob says more about me and my general negativity then it does about this movie---although you know just the fact that i would start thinking so much about the character in the movie just goes to show you how engaging the movie actually is. The only really negative thing i think i'd have to say is that a)there's a quasi set up for a sequel that if they wanted to they could prob do but i don't think it would be such a good idea--but maybe they could make it work--and 2)its kind of a somewhat forgettable movie--don't get me wrong i liked it very much when i was watching it but its been a couple of days now and i've already all but forgotten a lot of the finer points of the plot---really just the fact that it was very tense and that it was a very good very well done man on the run flick!