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The greatest movie ever!

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I'm a massive Rourke fan, and enjoyed the shit out of this film, despite his obvious contempt for it. He's jacked and in the best shape of his career With the help of Chuck Zito he puts together some great fight scenes. This was made during the years when Mickey was on the outer of Hollywood, and roles like this were his only offers of work Regardless he kills it with help from Danny Trejo and Kevin GageRourke sleep walks through the film, shrugging and grunting menacingly, dispatching bad guys with ease. This and Double Team show Rourke in fantastic form

To sum up my entire review of Point Blank, this is a poor man's version of Die Hard. In fact, amongst the many various Die Hard blueprints, Point Blank is certainly one of the worst movies. Point Blank is basically Die Hard in a Shopping Mall. Not a bad idea, but this movie fails miserably.Point Blank is about a group of convicts who have broken out of prison led by Howard played by Paul Ben-Victor (The Wire, Entourage). Amongst the convicts include Wallace played by Danny Trejo (Heat, Con Air, Machete) and Howard Ray played by Kevin Gage (famously known as Waingro from Heat and other roles such as Blow and G.I. Jane). The convicts take over a shopping mall in Fort Worth, Texas and take many of the shoppers hostage as well as leaving behind a large bloodshed. It's up to an ex-cop turned mercenary Rudy Ray played by Mickey Rourke (Angel Heart, Nine 1/2 Weeks) who is a poor clone of John McClane, to save the hostages from the murderous convicts as well as save his misfit brother Howard Ray from being killed.As I said before, this is certainly a poor version of Die Hard and amongst the brutal violence and unnecessary nonsensical scenes, this movie is terrible. I gave this movie a chance but upon seeing this movie, I realised far too late that I had made a big mistake in hiring this direct to video rubbish. I just lost interest in how the movie ended as it just got worse as the movie continued on.There are better action movies out there, and there are certainly superior versions of Die Hard out there. Avoid this movie.1/10.

This is the worst movie Rourke ever made. I am a huge 80z Rourke fan but this is just pathetic. Not because it is a rip off of other movies. Not because it is a stupid B-movie. Not even because Rourke has destroyed his looks. It is awful because Mickey actually thought he was giving a good performance. This is the standard he now sets for himself. That's just sad. Is this really the same guy who was in Diner?

A bunch of escaped criminals take over a shopping centre. One of them is a genuinely nice guy, so his well-meaning brother Rudy Ray (Mickey Rourke) infiltrates the shopping centre to save him. Still reading? If you were expecting a good film, you've got the wrong POINT BLANK. It's terrible - plain and simple.It was Greil Marcus, talking about Rod Stewart, who famously declared: `rarely has anyone betrayed his talent so completely'. Of course, the phrase could be aptly used to describe Mickey Rourke. The finest actor of the 1980's (Angel Heart, Barfly, Prayer for the Dying, White Sands, Rumble Fish, 9 1/2 Weeks) always lives up to expectations. Unfortunately, expectations of Mickey Rourke are not what they once were. A string of embarrassing pictures led to a self-imposed retirement. On return, his fortunes have not improved.If this reads like a career obituary, that's not the intention. Fingers crossed that a Soderbergh, Tarantino or Ferrara can resurrect his fallen star. Anything - absolutely anything - to spare us any more films as bad as POINT BLANK. It's a juvenile action romp, so gleeful in its stupid, sadistic violence it's almost unbearable to watch - and certainly impossible to enjoy.If it hurt Mickey to have his scenes removed from Terrance Malick's THIN RED LINE, or even DOUBLE TEAM, it seems his role has been reduced here too. He fades in and out of the action - perhaps he's trying to hide in the background. Either way, the results are inevitable, and nobody - least of all Rourke - could care less.It's not just that it's been done a million times better. The shoddy logic of the filmmakers is inane beyond comprehension. (a) The crime kingpin decides to sedate a frenzied psycho-rapist by giving him a whole brick of cocaine to snort. (b) After tormenting a female hostage, she then willingly performs a private sex-show for the pervert. (c) After the striptease he takes her out on the balcony and shoots her in full view of the surrounding cops. (d) He achieves the incredible feat of actually snorting the whole brick of cocaine in ninety minutes.That's just one incident that doesn't bear close scrutiny. The writer and director clearly revel in sex/drugs indulgence, and it comes out just as dubious as one would expect. There's dramatic license, but then there's a police force that idly watches as hostages are randomly executed.And let me assure you my vote of one for this film is no knee-jerk reaction. I tried - and failed - to watch it twice. But much like Mickey Rourke in the ring, his audience has a habit of coming back and suffering again and again.