Point Blank
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Marcia Gay Harden, Stuart F. Wilson, Buster Reeves, Christian Cooke, Teyonah Parris, Boris McGiver, Reggie Willis, Shanessa Sweeney, Nik Pajic, Markice Moore | Written by Adam G. Simon | Directed by Joe Lynch
Point Blank, directed by Joe Lynch, is a remake of Fred Cavayé’s À bout portant, which was originally released in 2010. The film stars two actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie as Abe and Paul, respectively. Paul has to break Abe out of custody in a hospital as his brother has taken Paul’s pregnant wife hostage. What commences is an unorthodox buddy-action comedy, in what is sadly yet another dull and tedious action-adventure.
It is hard to watch Point Blank and not debate why this was made, or even distributed by Netflix. Everything from its plot, actors and actress, or even filmmaking evokes a sense of direct-to-dvd nature.
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Marcia Gay Harden, Stuart F. Wilson, Buster Reeves, Christian Cooke, Teyonah Parris, Boris McGiver, Reggie Willis, Shanessa Sweeney, Nik Pajic, Markice Moore | Written by Adam G. Simon | Directed by Joe Lynch
Point Blank, directed by Joe Lynch, is a remake of Fred Cavayé’s À bout portant, which was originally released in 2010. The film stars two actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie as Abe and Paul, respectively. Paul has to break Abe out of custody in a hospital as his brother has taken Paul’s pregnant wife hostage. What commences is an unorthodox buddy-action comedy, in what is sadly yet another dull and tedious action-adventure.
It is hard to watch Point Blank and not debate why this was made, or even distributed by Netflix. Everything from its plot, actors and actress, or even filmmaking evokes a sense of direct-to-dvd nature.
- 7/31/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson, John Magaro, Cory Michael Smith, Kevin Crowley, Nik Pajic, Carrie Brownstein, Trent Rowland | Written by Phyllis Nagy | Directed by Todd Haynes
Hype at this time of year can become an overwhelming and overbearing thing, taking a film you could be looking forward to and loading so much baggage onto it that the whole thing falls apart, while you feel like a dog howling at the moon as you try and tell people how it’s really not all that; Carol feels like a perfect candidate for this. Getting awards buzz since its first screening in Cannes, based on a book by acclaimed author Patricia Highsmith and starring two previous Oscar botherers in the lead roles, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, and directed by a man who has been on the fringes of big awards for years, Todd Haynes, this...
Hype at this time of year can become an overwhelming and overbearing thing, taking a film you could be looking forward to and loading so much baggage onto it that the whole thing falls apart, while you feel like a dog howling at the moon as you try and tell people how it’s really not all that; Carol feels like a perfect candidate for this. Getting awards buzz since its first screening in Cannes, based on a book by acclaimed author Patricia Highsmith and starring two previous Oscar botherers in the lead roles, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, and directed by a man who has been on the fringes of big awards for years, Todd Haynes, this...
- 12/4/2015
- by Ian Loring
- Nerdly
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