Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

randomStuff101 Since this movie is based on the same book as Payback, I was curious as to what the 1967 Point Blank had to offer. Even though it's an old film, it's hard to excuse some of the creative choices here.Some of the still photography and in-between moments are atmospheric and enjoyable to watch. The problem is in the main guts of the film, there's a stumbling and overdone significance pushed in laboured scenes. Kind of a theatrical rehearsal level vibe underpins some scenes. All the more reason that Payback 1999 is such a welcome reboot of this story.

stevielanding Lee Marvin was great at not acting. In every movie, he stands there silently watching all the other actors until eventually he does something (usually very slowly). Rumor has it that Keanu Reeves studied his method religiously.Marvin plays a dead guy -- no, a dying guy -- no, a guy who almost died -- even the director said he didn't know and didn't care. Anyway, Marvin gets double-crossed by his buddy; so Marvin spends his time either bumbling his way into unintentional deaths or watching other people murder people. One highlight is when the hit-man is ordered to kill Marvin and instead kills the very guy who ordered the hit. The hit-man can pick off a moving target at great distance, but apparently he had trouble seeing Marvin pushing his boss out into the open and he had trouble seeing that his boss was not Marvin. Until later. Then he reported to the next higher boss that he killed his boss because he was there instead of Marvin. Good reasoning.And Angie is great at -- well, at being a model who gets a few lines. Her character learns that her sister just died due to Marvin scaring the holy heck out of her. So she leaves her sister to rot on the floor and goes off with Marvin. She gets to wear a few garish outfits and towards the end, for no apparent reason, she goes berserk on Marvin and then sleeps with him.The bad guys are a trip. "We don't have cash. We use checks. We can't get you your money. Only the accountant writes checks." That's what they keep telling Marvin, and apparently, it's not their concern whether Marvin kills them. They just know that they don't have cash.They threw out the script. They only liked the main character. I don't think they wrote a replacement script. I imagine each day on the set, they told Marvin to stand over there and don't say anything because that's mostly what he did.Marvin can't carry a movie. He can be great as a supporting character with his one-dimensional non-acting, but that's all. Dickinson certainly can't carry a movie. She is eye candy and nothing more. This is supposed to be an action movie, and she is the second lead playing against a guy who doesn't act, emote or move any facial muscles. That's much too much for her. She would be better as the second banana's love interest.Marvins stands and stares. Dickinson has boobs. The director had no script. That's about all.Strangely enough, because this was done like a rushed high school art project, people look for great meaning in its obvious deficiencies. No, it's not avant-garde or highly stylized. It's a bad or non-existent script with exceptionally bad editing. Is he dead? Is he alive? Is he dying? Nobody knows because (not to beat a dead horse) they didn't have a script.

Prismark10 British director John Boorman based Point Blank on Donald Westlake's crime thriller The Hunter. It stars Lee Marvin as Walker and you certainly see his distinctive, staccato walk in the early part of the film.This is a hard boiled thriller with European sensibilities. Walker is shot and left for dead, betrayed by his criminal friend who also has an affair with his wife. They planned to steal mob money which was being dropped off at Alcatraz.Miraculously Walker recovers and he wants his share of the money and revenge. Once Walker topples his treacherous friend who also had a dalliance with Walker's sister in law (Angie Dickinson) he goes after the organisation for his $93,000.Now you would think that if this organisation were so smart they would just pay Walker the $93,000 and bid him farewell given that systematically he is taking them down one by one aided by a shadowy figure.The film is tightly and stylishly directed, plenty of angles and for the time some daring nudity. One person falls to his death naked. It also aged a bit, the night club scene with a James Brown type singer screeching is a typical 60s scenario of films wanting to be hip.This is one of Marvin's best roles. He is relentless in his doggish pursuit for revenge and his dialogue is pared down. The way some of the scenes have been framed we are unsure if what we are seeing is a memory of a dying man.Point Blank was remade as the much inferior Payback, starring Mel Gibson.

Jackson Booth-Millard I found this film in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, I was looking forward to seeing it because it was the chance to see the leading actor in a different kind of role than I've seen from him before, directed by John Boorman (Deliverance, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Excalibur, The Tailor of Panama). Basically a man known to everyone only as Walker (Lee Marvin) who was double-crossed by his partner and his wife Lynne (Sharon Acker) is unfaithful to him. Walker does not seek retribution, all he wants is his share of the loot, $93,000, and nothing and no-one will stop him from doing whatever it takes to get it. Walker goes through a number of henchmen, slick operators and shrewd entrepreneurs that stand in his way of getting to the main man and his money. Walker's self- motivated operations takes to locations such as Alcatraz Island and Fort Point, he does force the criminals to give him what he wants, the final confrontation sees the man who set him up leaving the money in a briefcase, but in the end Walker leaves it, the criminals assume he will return to collect it, it is unclear if he does. Also starring Keenan Wynn as Yost, Carroll O'Connor as Brewster, Lloyd Bochner as Frederick Carter, Michael Strong as Stegman and John Vernon as Mal Reese. Marvin who I knew best for being in westerns and playing rough or messy characters gives a magnificent performance as the revenge-seeking lethal weapon man, the film makes great use of cinematography and Los Angeles locations, and the violence throughout really draws you in, I agree with critics the slightly complicated characters and story mean it may require repeat viewings, but I can confirm it is a most worthwhile crime thriller. Very good!