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"Point Blank" keeps the adrenaline flowing well past the point at which viewers stop hoping for twists they can't predict.
Point Blank is so ridiculously successful at keeping its momentum going - and keeping the audience tense with suspense - that it's likely to leave you with your heart pounding, gasping for breath.
See it now - before they start rewriting it to make room for bedpan jokes, exploding 18-wheelers and Shia LaBeouf.
The twists and turns involve a high-level assassination, corrupt cops, squint-inducing violence and plenty of fearlessness.
"Point Blank" starts with a pulse-quickening chase down flights of stairs and across Parisian rooftops, and continues with blistering action that doesn't let up until the closing credits.
"Point Blank" will leave you breathless. Unfolding at a blistering clip from its slam-bang opening through its bravura close, it grips you at frame one and doesn't let go.
This kind of lean and unadorned approached to the action-thriller is what's missing from most of the bloated American entries in the genre.
On a scale of 10, this is an 11.
The cure for the common thriller - an adrenalized chase that starts with a bang and just builds from there.
Its innocuous title recalls a Steven Seagal flick, sure, but this frenzied French thriller is more rooted in humanistic impulses and recognizable motivations than most of its skull-cracking American brethren.
...a breathlessly paced French thriller that doesn't let up from its opening frame to its satisfying coda.
Two sublimely sinister lead performances put this action thriller one step ahead of the pack.
Paris has served as the backdrop for several superb revenge flicks recently, such as 'Taken,' 'District B-13' and 'From Paris with Love,' and this adrenaline-fueled thriller measures up well in comparison with the best of the genre.
A genre gem that deserves a cross-quandrant embrace.
Point Blank doesn't have much on its mind beyond plot mechanics, although that isn't so much a criticism as a heads-up.
A nonstop movie that's nonetheless more captivatingly caffeinated than compelling...
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