Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

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

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

SnoopyStyle Safecracker Hugo Sartet (Roschdy Zem) escapes from two thugs and gets run over by a motorcycle. He is unconscious in the hospital where an assassin tries to kill him. He is saved by the quick reaction of nurse's aide Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche). Police Commandant Fabre (Mireille Perrier) is given the case. Samuel is attacked at home and his very pregnant wife Nadia (Elena Anaya) is kidnapped. He is told to remove Hugo out of protective custody. The planned exchange goes wrong. He joins Hugo to take down corrupt Commandant Patrick Werner (Gérard Lanvin) and recover his wife.It's an action-packed thriller. It's very tight and rather short at a little over eighty minutes. The caper inside the police station is thrilling. The story itself has a few holes but the quick pace of the movie doesn't allow them to linger. After the initial failed assassination, it seems easier for Werner to kill Sartet without needing to commit a kidnapping. The whole premise is a little convoluted. I'm also unsure of why Werner is keeping incriminating video of his crime instead of destroying it. The costume department needs to find different colors. Everybody is wearing black leather jackets and too many people look the same. The adrenaline-laced action never lets up and these minor flaws are papered over.

Tweekums The opening scene of this French thriller sees an injured man being chased by two men with guns; just as it looks as though they have caught him he is struck by a motorcycle. He is taken to hospital where his pursuers make another attempt on his life; this time he is saved by trainee nurse Samuel Pierret. This turns out to be a dangerous move for Samual as soon after his pregnant wife, Nadia, is kidnapped by the injured man's brother… it turns out he saved is wanted criminal Hugo Sartet. Samual manages to get Hugo out of the hospital but the police are closing in on them rapidly. The planned exchange Hugo for Nadia doesn't go as planned then before they can arrange another meeting Hugo's brother is killed and Nadia is held by another far more dangerous group; a squad of corrupt cops who will do anything to ensure that their involvement in the murder of a wealthy business man stays hidden… including killing honest cops and eliminating anybody who knows what they did.At around eighty minutes in length this is hardly a long film and it seems even shorter as the action barely lets up for a moment. Apart from a couple of establishing scenes featuring Sam and Nadia it is all action as Sam and Hugo flee their pursuers and ultimately turn the tables on them. The action feels very real and painful; it is also quite shocking at times. This is helped by the fact that protagonist Sam, excellently played by Gilles Lellouche isn't a tough guy action man; he is just an ordinary man driven by extraordinary circumstances. The rest of the cast also perform well making the characters believable. Overall a nice taut thriller that shows you don't need car chases and exploding helicopters to make an exciting film… I'd certainly recommend it.These comments are based on watching the film in French with English subtitles.

evanston_dad "Point Blank" is a reminder that the only French films the average American moviegoer is exposed to are the ones hand-selected for awards grooming; if it's not a contender for the Foreign Language Film Academy Award, good luck finding it in an American movie theatre. You're not going to find a movie like this, for example, a not terribly well done action thriller that, stylish direction aside, is just as dumb as the weekly fare for which American cinema is derided."Point Blank" is about a man whose pregnant wife is kidnapped when he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and gets caught up in a crime plot involving the murder of a wealthy businessman and some bad cops who are trying to cover it up. If the emotionally manipulative premise sounds like a big turn-off, rest easy -- this is the kind of movie that needs no spoiler alert to tell you that everything ends fine and our hero is reunited with his lovely wife.But that reunion cannot occur before some fairly preposterous things happen. I'm willing to suspend disbelief as much as the next guy when it comes to action movies -- preposterous things happening comes with the territory. But my problem with this movie was how lazy it was. The script sets up scenarios that put one or the other of the good guys in a tough situation, you wait to see what clever device the film is going to use to get them out of it, and then you're disappointed because nothing at all clever happens and the person gets out of it just because....well....because they do. There are moments when it feels as if the director forgot to film a key transition scene and then decided just to do without it rather than go back and bother to fill it in.I would like to say that the film isn't a bad way to spend 90 minutes on some evening when you don't want to think too hard, but I can't really say that. I spent most of the film's running time wishing that I had picked something better.Grade: B-

writers_reign Yet more proof that the policier is alive and well in the salles. This modest example takes its place alongside just recent titles as The Prey, Tell No One, 36, Quai des Orfevres and, of course, the director's own Pour Elle (Anything For Her). Nice also to see Gilles Lellouche carrying a film himself after lending sterling support for several years. The plot cries out for non-stop action lest we question the idea of an ordinary man, a nurse yet (or soon-to-be-a-nurse subject to final exams) holding his own with serious gangsters on one side and bent cops on the other, and luckily non-stop action is what Fred Cavaye delivers. Apart from the leading man the highest profile is another exceptional all-round actor equally at home in drama and comedy, Gerard Lanvin, who lends gravitas to a fine effort.