Bridget Fonda Movie:

Editorial Review:
Point of No Return is one of those Hollywood remakes of a European hit in which one can visualize a committee of studio executives sitting around and saying, "Okay, we know what made the original film unique and different and fun. How can we make that same movie and do exactly the opposite?" For-hire director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) took La Femme Nikita, Luc Besson's undeniably sexy, original, and kitschy French film about a female assassin, and translated it into a calculating, mechanistic American thriller with no distinctive style. Bridget Fonda gamely plays the willowy street punk who becomes a high-society killer, but once that provocative irony is in place, the movie is pretty much a series of by-the-numbers action set pieces. Until, that is, Dermot Mulroney shows up as a love interest; but even that twist can't save this film. You're much better off with the original, subtitles and all. --Tom Keogh

The Assassin [Region 2] Reviews:
Another Blu Ray Hall-of-Shamer...
2009-12-01 - *** BLU RAY 2009 REVIEW ***

If ever a disc was a textbook example of how NOT to present BLU RAY, then "Point Of No Return" (called "The Assassin" in Europe) is it.

The print is awful almost the whole way through. There's blocking everywhere, blurriness and clearly no attempt to restore the film. Depressingly this release on BLU RAY only accentuates how badly filmed it was in the first place - in short its worse on this format than it was on DVD. It's not as bad as "The French Connection" or "2010" on BLU RAY (see reviews), but it's close. There are no extras either. Personally, I've always liked the movie, but I wanted a better copy of it - and this is NOT it.

This shoddy release only reconfirms the worst fears of movie fans - film companies are throwing any amount of crap at the BLU RAY wall at the moment to bolster up the sales numbers - and it's being done without any care being given to the release.

Even if you're a lover of the movie, hire it first before you buy - 20 minutes in and you'll be too disappointed to reach for the credit card...

"The Assassin/Point of No Return" on BLU RAY is a very real reason as to why Amazon reviews exist.

One to avoid I'm afraid.

A Must See!
2009-11-03 - If you haven't seen the movie yet, make it a point to! GREAT movie!

No Point To It At All
2009-11-03 - I just saw this movie (again) two days ago, I had seen it many years back when it first came out. Unfortunately at the time I had not seen La Femme Nikita and my sister recommended the original. I was stunned! Up until this point I had no idea that Hollywood actually copied material in this manner (honestly I didn't). As I watched the original I became more and more disgusted with this American version.

I really wonder though if I should blame the American people or Hollywood for this travesty. I am not put off by sub titles and if you look at "The Passion of the Chirst" people clearly will pay money to see a movie with not a single English word spoken. So is Hollywood really "forced" to remake great movies in order for us to see them, or is Hollywood underestimating us by feeding us this remade junk? As some have pointed out, this movie is scene for scene a remake of the original - and to me it is a horrible remake.

You know, I can actually bring up another example. There is an English show called "Coupling" which they tried to duplicate here. I saw an original episode and then a remade episode. The American remade episode - even though it was identical scene for scene just wasn't funny. The same is true of this movie - the drama and everything else that went with it, just wasn't there.

The scenes are truly not idential and even those little differences were better in the original. Mind you, I saw the original AFTER I saw this junk of a movie. You would think that I would be swayed by this movie because I saw it first - nope. The fact is that the world out there makes some great movies, but we can't enjoy them the way they were meant to be. We have to be dumbed down and spoon feed with an American actor, english words or we are just too far out of our comfort zones to care. I think in the end that is not true because if it was then there wouldn't be so many people here pointing to the original and proclaiming how much the original one is to this one.

bridget in blue ray...... YES!!!!
2009-10-30 - Hadthis movie on VHS and 10 ytimes better on Blue Ray Bridgette Fonda in HD on 55" LED. WOW

Trained for Independence
2009-07-19 - No spoiler. How do you make a Bond? From scratch. Gripping, fun, and twisty enough to stay interesting, with a good love story, tasteful sex scene. Good quality recording and great sound