The button-pushing 1989 movie remains impossible to define, while laying the template for Soderbergh’s wildly divergent directorial career in the aftermath, writes Kambole Campbell
For many, the starting point for neo-noir, although it passed under the radar in 1967. From Donald Westlake’s novel, noir veteran Lee Marvin is relentless as the criminal seeking revenge after being left for dead by his wife and best friend. Taut, uber cool, and full of noiresque flourishes , Point Blank never wastes a second. It introduced a new level of violence in cinema and laid the foundations for everything that was to come.
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