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This is how you make an action-packed thriller. Swift, brutal and void of any kind of silly subplots that give too much time to words when the characters should just be racing for their lives. They quickly establish the characters in a clean and effective way and then shock you by going right into the action. With a very nice 80 minute runtime the film breezes by without dragging for a moment and you really just get caught up in the exciting chaos of it all. There's definitely no reinventing the wheel here, but it stands up with Taken and Running Scared as one of the best action films to come out this past decade. It was exactly what I wanted.

There were some moments that really made me sit up in my chair just by how much of a gut punch they were; some things I definitely didn't see coming. Gilles Lellouche is a great leading man, capable of portraying both the everyman and the action star qualities of his character while still being completely believable when he has to portray the dramatic moments to keep you on his side and understanding of what he is fighting for. It's stylish as hell and is seriously just pushing it's foot to pavement for the entire running time. This is a real crowd-pleaser.

I discovered this thriller ordering some good DVDs on Amazon. I thought it must not be bad with 4.5/5 stars and rating of 6.8 out 10 on IMDb. Then the running time with 80 minutes is not so long. In fact I wasn't disappointed and I spent with my wife an entertaining evening. All the actors and the director did a good job here. Some scenes were perhaps too violent and one or two sequences not very clear to follow. But if you can look away from these little flaws it works for a solid action movie. It's not the one you will talk days later but it's definitely one of the better ones you can buy or rent in this genre. Just check it out. It takes you quick on a fast paced and packed cat and mouse chase. This will take your breath away. 6/10.

French cinema is well known to the audience, especially to those tending to Art film. Besides French film influence which is the reference in the field, France is also very well known as a land of the Crime genre. I am myself great fan of their Film Noir and New Wave and I am totally crazy about their crime (gangster) movies from earlier periods and contemporary as well.

French crime movies did not loose its charm even today, and almost every year there are few great titles. It comes to my mind modern director like it is Olivier Marchal which movies I like very much, but there are respectable list of other names, both directors and actors.

Point Blank movie did not disappoint, and it were a pleasure to watch it. Even the name reminds me on classic US crime movie with Lee Marvin, but it have nothing similar with it. The plot of Point Blank is good, and somehow original, even it is not hard to predicts the end, which is usual for most movie.

This is not pure crime movie, I would add that there is a bit of thriller smell in it. The actors did a good job, especially well known actor Roschdy Zem which can be seen in most of the crime movies. I am not familiar with director Fred Cavaye, but he did a good job here, and he offer us fine work in tradition of French crime cinema.

For those looking for typical Hollywood action pack, maybe it is better to look at something else, but for those that like classic action crime European movie, it is more than recommended.

Outside of Hollywood, good and realistic action films can be successful without the Hollywood Big 3 of American action films.....CGI, car chases and boo-coo explosions. And, French films always deliver when mean, harsh, brutal and uncaring play the main roles. Great looking pregnant wife, Liam Neesom-resembling husband, despicable and brutal criminals uncaring about human values and life, and brutal dirty cops even less caring about human life made this one of my faves for the year so far.

Point Blank was a 100% serious film with great pacing and no smart-ass or comedic side tracks or poorly placed romance throw-ins as are so often stupidly done by Hollywood, plus it had plenty of the most terrifying and brutal behavior of human psychopathy to scare you silly. Other than a few timing errors where the director stayed with a few scenes longer than he should have for best effect, such as the one when the dirty cop was discovered, it was a well done seat-edge thriller to the end. And, yes, we all knew how it would end, as all those horrible experiences resulted in a typical ending.......good for the good guys and bad for the baddies.

How regular people in real life could ever have more or less normal lives after all that bloody terror and murder is beyond my understanding, but somehow these film characters seemed to be able to do it.

Point Blank (2010)

Not to be confused with the semi-classic 1967 movie of the same title with Lee Marvin, this is not a remake or an echo of that. What this French action thriller is fits another category--the non-stop kinetic run from the bad-guys film, which has become a kind of staple. Think the Bourne movies, or a couple later Liam Neeson films, where the hero gets himself into a terrible situation that requires running and running and running.

And that's enough, in a way, because you can't stop looking. There are no lulls. In fact, some of the moments have such kinetic surprise to them they deserve study. Your stomach will turn. Don't expect a big rationale. Don't even quite expect to care for anything except that our main man, and his wife, survive the ordeal. There are crosses and double-crosses. There is horrid abuse of women which I could do without (the rationale might just be the perils of Pauline kind of thing, saving her with the handsome male to the rescue, but it's just plain abusive). There is one female cop who is a great tough archetype. And lots of bad violent men.

But, truly, none of this is meant to matter. You just grab onto the handles and don't let go. It's really really well made, visually, the camera-work and editing taking front seat. I'd see it on the biggest screen you can, since that's where it's all at.

point blank doesn't have very deep characters (but still it's amazing how the dramatic scenes work) , nor a huge complex plot, and it's not about metaphors or cultural references. It's a fast paced action ride, that changes all the time, that knows very well how to manage their timings in the scenes. It's really a cool action flick, and you realize how short it is when it ends. It was conceived as a thrill fun, short ride, an after that you just take a deep breath, because you saw people running during the 80 minutes.

It's not the most amazing film ever, but if you look for a nice film keeping you on the edge of the seat, this is widely recommended.

This was a punchy, French, action based film that was quite good, but with more developed characters, could have been brilliant.

Point Blank is well paced, dramatic, entertaining and I suppose most importantly believable. A criminal escapes murder, whilst in hospital, and forces his nurse to team up with him, as he avoids the police and his killers. The reluctant nurse aids the gangster, with his kidnapped pregnant wife held captive, to escape what is a corrupt police unit. To say any more would almost spoil the plot.

PB is ambitious, true to the action-chase genre and boasts some nice French cinema, and culture elements (especially visually), but ultimately comes up short of anything other than just plain good. A refreshing spin on this sort of thing, providing a decent afternoon's viewing.

I think you should know up front that I am NOT the intended audience for "Point Blank" and my score of 6 might just reflect that. I am not a big fan of violent films nor, especially, do I enjoy films which are non-stop action movies. I am not saying they're bad...but I don't enjoy them. I can respect "Point Blank" but didn't exactly love it...which isn't a huge surprise. I mostly watched it because I enjoy French films.

The film begins with a violent chase scene. A man has been shot and then, unexpectedly, get hit by a car. It's almost impossible to imagine a guy surviving this...let along running about like an action hero for most of the film...and that's why I knocked a few points off the movie right off the bat. This just didn't make sense and he was NOT a Terminator!!

Anyway, back to the film. While the guy is in intensive care, someone tries to kill him--slicing his respirator hose. Fortunately for him, a nurse's aid discovers this and saves him. As payment for his good deed, some folks knock him senseless and then kidnap his very pregnant wife. Then he gets a message that he must sneak this injured guy out of the hospital...which he does. What follows is a long series of chase scenes, fights, shootings and pretty much everything else they could cram into the film. Again, much of it is done by a guy who only minutes before was in ICU...clinging to life.

Perhaps you'll enjoy it. The action is gripping and the film is non-stop. I just thought it sometimes just didn't make a lot of sense.

Yup, Point Blank is a no lulls, come-atcha action movie made all the more believable by the nice plot and superior script. No superspy here, just an everyman caught up in the wrong place & time.

And yes, there are a few plot twists that I find a bit hard to swallow, but because the protagonist is so compelling & believable, I'll take them without looking back.

I credit the editing on this movie for keeping it surgically precise. There are no breaks or falters, Point Blank keeps building towards it's action climax.

9/10 - Highly Recommended.

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.

Smart action thrillers are rare. Rarer still is a smart action thriller that features a complex yet comprehensible (and credible) plot, characters you care about, and vivid, crisp directing. "Point Blank" is one of these rarities. It utilizes many elements of classic action films—an innocent "good guy" who unwittingly becomes caught up in a dangerous plot, a woman in jeopardy, corrupt cops, and unexpected twists. The film avoids cliché, however, and it moves along at lightning speed (total running time is about 80 minutes). The French setting is an added bonus, and the acting and editing are very well done. Subtract a star if subtitles annoy you.

Point Blank is a decent action thriller. It's thrilling, action scenes look good and the main character is easy to root for. The cinematography is also very nice. More artistic than in most action movies, and very nice colours. But while it all clicks it doesn't really stand out from the typical action movies. So in short, it's alright. If you like action movies, it's worth seeing, but if you'd like to see something different, then maybe this movie isn't for you.

this movie will keep your eyes open and sit on the edge of your chair once it starts. i often consider the good french action thrillers are the most creative and original, that's why Hollywood keeps copycatting and adapting from the french movies one after another once there are new good french thriller movies in the market. "the next three days(not a bad adaptation)" and "the tourist(just horrible!)" are the most recent examples adapted from the french originals.

this 'point blank' is a great thriller from beginning to the end. the chases from the hospital to the subway station and the chaos in the hospital and the police central are just exceptionally directed, edited, acted. i was sleepy before watching this movie, but once it started, the heavy eyelids just became light and wide open.

i didn't quite like the final scene. it seems a bit unnecessary but at the same time quite necessary, and that's a funny thought.

nice tight story...the acting was very very good all around.... again...movie is only 84 minutes short...wish it were longer.... literally one of the better thrillers i've watched in a long time.... the movie starts of fast and doesn't let go...full of taut suspense and action scene after scene... wish there were more suspense thrillers this well done out there as this is my favorite genre of movie.... what i really liked was that nothing was really over the top acting wise although the story itself might be a little far-fetched for some... but one wouldn't really mind as the movie itself is totally engrossing as too leave one almost breatheless... i also like the fact that the hero wasn't over the top and look like your everyday joe... if you get a chance don't miss out on this movie....definitely a well spent 84 minutes....

nail-biting action-thriller with one memorable chase scene in an underground train station.

Samuel (Gilles Lellouche) is dragged into midst of conspiracy and cops on trail of a dangerous criminal when his pregnant wife Nadia (Elena Anaya) is kidnapped and held hostage. Samuel is ordered to help wounded Sartet (a charismatic Roschdy Zem) out of hospital and his wife will be returned safely to him.

Standing on the way are cops who just discovered Sartet is wanted for slew of robberies and a suspect in a homicide. It's just the start of a nightmare for Samuel and he must quickly adapt to the growing perilous situations if he wants to rescue Nadia.

World class editing by Benjamin Weill helps propel the French film at Concorde speed with perfect amount of intensity and excitement.

*** out of 4.

This was probably the best action film of 2010, which is somewhat surprising considering it's a mid-budget French movie with a lean script and actors unknown to English-speaking audiences. Despite the possible handicaps, this pared-down thriller turns out to have the vitality and excitement of one of the Greengrass Bourne flicks, and it's very nearly as good.

The storyline is simple but intricate: the archetypal everyday family man is drawn into a complicated conspiracy of murder and betrayal when he saves the life of one of his patients following a murder attempt. His wife is thus kidnapped, and he spends the rest of the movie in a desperate race against time to save her. It sounds like TAKEN but it takes a much more realistic, thriller-style approach rather than going for the all out action style; for the record I like both films equally well.

Gilles Lellouche is expertly sweaty as the ultra-anxious guy driven to desperate extremes by the situation, but the film really belongs to Roschdy Zem as the Algerian criminal who starts out as an innocent, becomes a bad guy, and finally turns into something much, much more and better besides. His character avoids cliché throughout and he gives a reserved, oddly touching performance despite his character's rough, violent ways.

This is a short film (80 minutes odd) and it's action packed, with the action mostly taking the form of pulse-pounding chase sequences that support and enhance the thriller aspects of the story. It starts off well, drawing you into the lives of the characters before letting rip with the suspense, and from that point in it never lets up until the ferocious climax. It truly is a great movie, and a second watch close on the heels of the first merely confirms my first impressions.

There's something of the spirit of 'Run, Lola, Run' about this latest thriller to use the title 'Point Blank': a vaguely realistic feel but basically a lot of action, and a plot that does little more than justify one thing happening after another. Indeed, the plot itself isn't realistic at all, and in fact, what starts out as an interesting (albeit somewhat clichéd) story of one man getting embroiled in something above his head soon becomes farcical (the entire police force is corrupt to the point of attempting to murder innocent pregnant women, but don't worry, because two people, one of them a nurse, can two-handedly storm an entire police station...). It's fast-moving and doesn't outstay it's welcome; but it still comes a poor second to John Boorman's wonderful new-wave thriller of the same title.

Someone who complains about "lack of depth" doesn't get it. This is a very well-acted--in fact brilliantly acted--well-directed, well-paced, well-plotted thriller. If you want "depth", see subtle films about love and betrayal and friendship, etc. Nothing wrong with that, but this is a thriller. We know enough about the characters to make us care, and man, we do care! and make them believable. That's quite enough for a thriller.

As others have observed, the actors are magnificent. First, the unwilling hero: as in great Hitchcock films (I'm thinking particularly of "North by Northwest"), he's an ordinary guy, not a tough, trained super-hero. Gilles Lelouche is totally convincing in that role. And the one who seems to be the bad guy, Roshdy Zem, and who develops in the course of the film, is perfect. Neither he nor anybody else in this film overacts.

'Point Blank' begins with a bang. Some murderous armed assailants are hunting a wounded man, Hugo, through the streets of Paris. After several minutes of frantic evasion, Hugo is struck by a speeding vehicle and whisked off to hospital. While he lies in a near-comatose state in the ICU, his ruthless pursuers make a further assassination attempt, which is foiled by a male nurse called Samuel. The goons promptly kidnap Samuel's pregnant wife Nadia, and blackmail him to extricate their quarry from the hospital. Samuel revives the critically injured man with some magic potion from the dispensary, spirits him out of the building and joins him on the run, since the police have now learned the former patient is a wanted murderer.

The frantic pursuit continues until the film's final moments - and except for the French dialog, 'Point Blank' is indistinguishable from a cookie-cutter Hollywood action thriller. Its paper-thin plot possesses some fleeting moments of credibility - unless one makes the mistake of examining them too closely. The action sequences are gritty and realistic - except when they lapse into the standard preposterous stunts that are obligatory in this genre of film. Apart from these drawbacks, the story's principal flaw is that Samuel and Nadia are so brave and sympathetic that the conclusion of their journey through the criminal underworld and corrupt cops of Paris is never in doubt. A thriller lacking the crucial ingredient of tension is scarcely a thriller at all.

Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche) is a nurse's aide in Paris with an expecting wife, Nadia (Elena Anaya). When Samuel saves a patient, a safecracker named Hugo Sartet (Roschdy Zem), from being murdered during his shift, Nadia is soon kidnapped and Samuel is left a phone with a caller on the other end forcing him to help Hugo escape the hospital. Samuel then becomes a fugitive with Hugo, with the two sharing an uneasy alliance as they find themselves in a plot of corrupt cops and a ticking clock.

Point Blank marks the second film from director Fred Cavaye following his 2008 film Anything for Her. Much like Anything for Her, Cavaye wanted to engage the audience on the same level of an "ordinary guy" by his words who's immediately spurred to action. Point Blank is an engaging ride from start to finish, even if some of the stretches in the final act test believability.

Gilles Lellouche is really good as Samuel Pierrey making for a solid "everyman" protagonist who's only fault is being at the wrong place at the wrong time. When we're introduced to him and his wife Nadia as played by Elena Anaya, director Cavaye does a solid job of establishing believable chemistry between the two and making them feel like a believable couple. When Samuel is forced into the plot proper of his wife being kidnapped and forced to aid in the escape of Roschdy Zem's Hugo, the movie sets up a great dynamic with Zem as a more hardened character counterbalanced by Lellouche as a man driven by desperation. The villains are also quite enjoyably hateful, with Gérard Lanvin in particular oozing contemptibility and hate in a fantastic villain performance. The final act wherein Hugo arranges for chaos at a police station admittedly stretches believability especially with how many moving pieces are required for the plan to work, but the movie is so fast paced and captures that feeling of desperation that it's easy to forgive such a strained plot point.

Point Blank as an action experience is really well done. With a sense of grit to how the city is photographed, as well as a real sense of weight and impact to the action scenes, Cavaye manages to make a pulse pounding action-thriller that captures all the promised excitement of its premise while maintaining the grounding element that these are ordinary people in an extraordinary situation and doesn't make them into "plot armored" action heroes. While Lellouche does do some outlandish stunts, the movie does well to make sure the fit within the context of desperate "last resorts" and we still feel like there's risk involved in these actions.

Point Blank isn't a particularly complicated film, but it is an exhilarating film that uses its simple premise for maximum effect. The movie does strain credibility in its third act with a lot of moving parts, but the brisk running time and desperate stakes keep us engaged to the end credits.