2010 · thriller · action · crime
Point Blank
Directed by Fred Cavayé1h 24m2010
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
Our read: Point Blank (2010) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · action · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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