Lynch’s background in horror does mean he stages some shock moments of gore with finesse but the action is largely pedestrian and hampered by some ill-fitting 80s music choices. Director Joe Lynch can’t quite decide what tone to stick with and alternates between unfunny buddy comedy (“I bet your wife kidnapped herself” is one of Grillo’s worst quips) and balls-to-the-wall gonzo action movie.
The simplicity of the conceit becomes muddied with some rather confusingly etched nonsense involving corrupt cops, an unconvincingly grizzled Marcia Gay Harden as the shotgun-toting detective in hot pursuit and a glaringly obvious plot twist. It’s only when the initial escape is out of the way that the engine starts to sputter. We’re never far out of familiar territory (the plot revolves around securing a USB stick) but for a while, the film hurtles us along with it anyway.Īnthony Mackie and Marcia Gay Harden in Point Blank. It also means the clunkier elements don’t have much time to stick or, if they do, they provide some unintentional humour, from the threatening texts always sent, for some bizarre reason, in quotation marks (“I’m gonna stab you thru the heart w a fucking pencil” – BIG D) to the clunky first draft dialogue (“What happens if something happens to my baby?”).
Paul is suddenly dragged in deeper after his wife is kidnapped and Abe’s brother informs him that to get her back safely, he has to break a heavily guarded Abe out of hospital.Īt a brisk 86 minutes, Point Blank doesn’t have time to waste and in the first act, the snappy pace does give the film a lightfooted slickness, throwing us into the action and securing our interest with a juicy set-up, one that’s already inspired three other remakes. His life soon collides with Abe (Frank Grillo, playing a parody of himself), a hardened criminal in his care, suffering from a gunshot wound after what appears to be a botched getaway from a murder scene.
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