Black Point

I was lucky to get to see Black Point at the LA permiere in December of 2001. I have always been a fan of David Caruso's, and every time I see him he just gets better and better. This film is no exception. The other lead actors are fantastic as well, Thomas Ian Griffith (also one of the writers) plays a "bad guy," but in a very appealing way and Susan Haskell is excellent in a breakout femme fatale kind of role.

It's hard to summarize the film without giving too much away, but in a nutshell, Caruso plays John Hawkins, a down and out former Navy Captain who is stuck in the small harbor town of the film's title, Black Point.

He meets Haskell in the sexy role of Natalie and just when he thinks his life is going to change for the better, it take a wild swing for the worse. Twists and turns abound and the action is innovative throughout.

I can't recommend this independent Canadian film enough.

There little worth commenting on in "Black Point", an obvious, hackneyed, journeyman, low budget B-flick which is just another in a very long line of films about a bunch of people after a bunch of money. The film has nothing original to offer and is so ordinary in every way that it's not worthy of commentary. I'm surprised this flick hasn't made it to cable yet (at least not in my market) as I watched it on DVD and I can't imagine it ever saw the light of a projector. Just more of the same old stuff which will have little value beyond fodder for the sofa spud looking for a no-brainer crime flick. (C)

The writers probably meant for this to be a serious action flick. It's so funny you'll want to stand on a block of ice and put a rope around your neck. David Caruso left NYPD for an acting career??

See this film for a good laugh.

It gets 8 point because of Carusos performance. High performing as usual the Ex-NYPD-cop gets the best out of an otherwise very thin plot.Ex-marine loses his beloved daughter & falls in love with the woman of a high-rolling gangster.The woman - desperately wanting to leave her abusive husband - uses the ex-marine to get away from her marriage. Unfortunately the plot gets stuck in the sand when the woman changes her mind and decides to be on the ex-marines side AGAIN. How desperate must a guy be to take a woman back who put the wool over his eyes and made him a target for her enraged husband? The love scene was very awkward. I mean - having seen other Caruso movies I think the guy has some issues with kissing before camera. Anyway the guy's got so much potential and wastes it in a B-movie

I don't really know why I am bothering to comment on "Black Point". It is a really ordinary effort, even for a "B"-flick. Whilst I didn't sit down to watch this film (well DVD actually) with any high expectations, I was still disappointed with it. The acting was pedestrian at best but it was the script which really irritated. Things start out OK but as the plot progresses it makes less and less sense, such that the last 30 minutes are just a frenzied mess. It's bad, but unfortunately, not bad enough to be funny.