mistoppi Point Blank is a decent action thriller. It's thrilling, action scenes look good and the main character is easy to root for. The cinematography is also very nice. More artistic than in most action movies, and very nice colours. But while it all clicks it doesn't really stand out from the typical action movies. So in short, it's alright. If you like action movies, it's worth seeing, but if you'd like to see something different, then maybe this movie isn't for you.

morrison-dylan-fan When looking for French Thriller titles on Amazon UK,this was the title that always appeared at the top.Planning to buy the DVD,I was pleased to spot that the movie was about to appear on BBC iPlayer,which The plot:Checking the wards after speaking to his pregnant wife Nadia, Samuel Pierret spots a mysterious man running out of a room.Entering the room,Pierret finds the man (who has been left knocked out by a crash) has been taken off his respirator. Quickly putting the respirator back on,Pierret gets the situation under control. Embracing Nadia at home, Samuel and his wife are attacked by some thugs,who knock Samuel out. Waking up on his own,Samuel gets a call from the thugs and is told that if he wants to see Nadia alive again,he must get the knocked out patient out of the hospital.View on the film:Dragged into a murky underworld at point blank range, Gilles Lellouche gives a great performance as Samuel Pierret,whose raw red eyes and leathery face allow Lellouche to give the title a gripping roughness. Waking up dazed and confused, Roschdy Zem glides with the coolness of a Neo-Noir rebel in his magnetic performance as the knocked out stranger Hugo Sartet,with Zem slowly building a level of respect that Startet shares with Samuel,which is joined by Zem giving Sartet an icy bluntness on attacking those who want him out of the hospital.Firing Samuel out of his blue collar life,the screenplay by co- writer/(along with Guillaume Lemans) director Fred Cavayé spins a thrilling Neo-Noir web which pulls excellent,double dealing cops into Samuel and Sartet's loners on the run spree. Despite fading away in for the ending,the writers keep the Neo-Noir anxiety burning away,as Samuel finds himself being tied to Sartet's tough deals.Running with Samuel and Sartet, Cavayé & cinematographer Alain Duplantier keep track with chic Neo-Noir style cast across the screen in rapid-fire whip-pans locating every escape route the guys have. Along with the chase shine, Cavayé gives the gritty shoot-outs and fight scenes a moody darkness cast by dried up colours,as Samuel,Sartet and Nadia try not to reach their grosse pointe blank.

Leofwine_draca This was probably the best action film of 2010, which is somewhat surprising considering it's a mid-budget French movie with a lean script and actors unknown to English-speaking audiences. Despite the possible handicaps, this pared-down thriller turns out to have the vitality and excitement of one of the Greengrass Bourne flicks, and it's very nearly as good.The storyline is simple but intricate: the archetypal everyday family man is drawn into a complicated conspiracy of murder and betrayal when he saves the life of one of his patients following a murder attempt. His wife is thus kidnapped, and he spends the rest of the movie in a desperate race against time to save her. It sounds like TAKEN but it takes a much more realistic, thriller-style approach rather than going for the all out action style; for the record I like both films equally well.Gilles Lellouche is expertly sweaty as the ultra-anxious guy driven to desperate extremes by the situation, but the film really belongs to Roschdy Zem as the Algerian criminal who starts out as an innocent, becomes a bad guy, and finally turns into something much, much more and better besides. His character avoids cliché throughout and he gives a reserved, oddly touching performance despite his character's rough, violent ways.This is a short film (80 minutes odd) and it's action packed, with the action mostly taking the form of pulse-pounding chase sequences that support and enhance the thriller aspects of the story. It starts off well, drawing you into the lives of the characters before letting rip with the suspense, and from that point in it never lets up until the ferocious climax. It truly is a great movie, and a second watch close on the heels of the first merely confirms my first impressions.

FlashCallahan 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.