Point blank 1998 full#
(c) After the striptease he takes her out on the balcony and shoots her in full view of the surrounding cops. (b) After tormenting a female hostage, she then willingly performs a private sex-show for the pervert. (a) The crime kingpin decides to sedate a frenzied psycho-rapist by giving him a whole brick of cocaine to snort. The shoddy logic of the filmmakers is inane beyond comprehension.
It's not just that it's been done a million times better. Either way, the results are inevitable, and nobody - least of all Rourke - could care less. He fades in and out of the action - perhaps he's trying to hide in the background. If it hurt Mickey to have his scenes removed from Terrance Malick's THIN RED LINE, or even DOUBLE TEAM, it seems his role has been reduced here too. It's a juvenile action romp, so gleeful in its stupid, sadistic violence it's almost unbearable to watch - and certainly impossible to enjoy.
Anything - absolutely anything - to spare us any more films as bad as POINT BLANK. Fingers crossed that a Soderbergh, Tarantino or Ferrara can resurrect his fallen star.
If this reads like a career obituary, that's not the intention. On return, his fortunes have not improved. A string of embarrassing pictures led to a self-imposed retirement. Unfortunately, expectations of Mickey Rourke are not what they once were. The finest actor of the 1980's (Angel Heart, Barfly, Prayer for the Dying, White Sands, Rumble Fish, 9 1/2 Weeks) always lives up to expectations. Of course, the phrase could be aptly used to describe Mickey Rourke. It was Greil Marcus, talking about Rod Stewart, who famously declared: `rarely has anyone betrayed his talent so completely'. Still reading? If you were expecting a good film, you've got the wrong POINT BLANK. One of them is a genuinely nice guy, so his well-meaning brother Rudy Ray (Mickey Rourke) infiltrates the shopping centre to save him. Bookwalter film.Ī bunch of escaped criminals take over a shopping centre. After all, you could have wasted your time on a J. Four stars awarded for having some entertainment value, even if no artistic value.
Point blank 1998 movie#
But with that aside, this movie is worthwhile if only to show your friends or your date what bad editing looks like. I'm going to be generous and guess that the editor did not have enough film to work with or that the director failed to block and cover shots as he should have. It could be a poster-child for bad movie editing. I normally don't pay a lot of attention to editing in a movie (unless it's just really bad) but this movie is one of the most obviously-poorly-edited movies I've ever seen. Kevin Gage turns in a surprisingly good performance in what is probably the most difficult role in the movie. (To be fair, the early 1990s were not kind to him.) YotD was not one of Mickey's best movies, but the contrast between the Mickey of 1985 and the Mickey of 1998 is almost too much to be believed. It was only 12 years earlier that Cimino's "Year of the Dragon" was released, but it seems like it was a lifetime to Mickey. Of course, there is also the weird fascination of watching Mickey Rourke (at a mere 41 years of age) totally over-the-top with steroids and immediately after one of his face lifts. Second, you may actually enjoy picking out the "dumb things" and the totally improbable or impossible. The first is that, while it's mindless and mind-numbing, there's actually a story and you do become involved enough to want to find out how the story ends. There are actually a couple reasons to watch this movie.
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