Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

It is a performances centric movie

Absolutely amazing

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Using Alcatraz as a regular drop point (as indicated at start and end of movie) made no sense. The island is only 1.25 miles from San Francisco. The entire city would have seen the landing lights on the island turn on and the helicopter landing and taking off. People would be asking questions, so city/state police and Park Service police would be investigating.I suppose its nice for the viewer to imagine the open question about whether Walker gets the cash that is left behind. Or what happens to Chris' (Sister-in-Law & lover to Walker) character. Although I prefer to clear up loose ends.Overall, a lot of dead bodies left around for police to ask questions about.

Based upon the superior pulp fiction book, The Hunter by the fabulous Donald E Westlake, writing as Richard Stark under which name he never put a foot wrong; how could anything go wrong? Well, it doesn't, apart from substituting the better name of 'Parker', this is just as sure fire a winner as the book. Lee Marvin is amazingly good. Quite, cool almost statuesque and then devastatingly quick and sure footed. The thrills here are not in looking out for the safety of Parker/Walker but in seeing how he will, inevitably, outwit them. A joy to watch, director Boorman always has an eye on the visuals and whilst this might not quite have the charm of Italian thrillers and gialli of the time that says more about the differences between Italian and US interior design for the exteriors are most imaginatively shot. Similarly US fashion cannot quite match the Italians but the most effective Angie Dickinson does wear at least a couple of very fetching costumes.

Point Blank is the movie Playback's predecessor. Porter for Walker! Gibson for Marvin! The premise of the story is exact. Marvin gets robbed, left for dead and wants his money back. The Porter/Walker characters are excellent, as harden robbers who are all so professional. The mechanics of the both stories are exciting to watch. Regrettably Point Blank has lulls. Angie Dickinson's character slows and or drags the story. The 60's flashbacks direction kills the tempo. Payback has better double cross side stories. The Chinese mob, and dirty cops side stories brought Payback to a higher level than Point Blank's side story. John Vernon aka Mal Reese character is good, but the Gregg Henry, Val Resnick, character put slime to a new art form. Point Blank had a statement ending and come across dull!

Lee Marvin stars in this stylish neo-noir, Point Blank, with a European sensibility, directed by John Boorman. The film also stars Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, John Vernon, Lloyd Bochner, Carroll O'Connor, and Sharon Acker. This movie and Payback are based on the same book, "Hunter." Mal Reese (John Vernon) needs money to pay organized crime bosses and talks his friend Walker (Marvin) to help him steal it. However, the money, if split, isn't enough for him to make his payment. Reese steals it all and shoots Walker, believing that he killed him.Walker isn't dead, and he wants his money. We don't know how much time has passed, but it seems like it's at least a couple of years. His wife (Acker) cheated on him with Mal after Walker was shot, so he visits her. But she and Mal are no longer together.He visits Chris (Dickinson), his wife's sister, and then finally reaches Reese. Reese isn't the last stop on the food chain, though. In order to get his money, Walker has to go up the line of gangsters. He's good with a gun and plenty sick of waiting.This is a film without a ton of dialogue and with a very internal performance by Lee Marvin. The editing is especially crisp - we get very tiny flashbacks, and in the end, we wonder if this was a dream he has while in prison or if it all really happened.The casting is unusual as it is populated with people who worked primarily in television - Vernon and Bochner were practically mainstays on shows like Mission: Impossible, Sharon Acker was a TV actress, and Carroll O'Connor's great fame came in television.There is a starkness about this film, in an urban setting of cement lacking in much personality. Through it all, there's Marvin, quietly racking up the body count. In Payback, Mel Gibson is much more overt, and the violence is stronger.This isn't made like other films, and I have to think, even though it came out at the same time as Bonnie & Clyde, that it had some influence.