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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 87045
Released: December 15, 1998 |
| Our Price: $5.08 |
| Used Price: $4.95 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The most dangerous criminals in Texas have just been set loose. They're heavily armed and totally out of control. A shopping mall has fallen victim to their psychotic outbursts and they're unwilling to negotiate.Now one renegade cop is going in to get one man out. It's brother against brother on opposites of the law on opposite sides of a gun.System Requirements:Running Time 90 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 658149710528 Manufacturer No: 7105
Description of Point Blank:
Strictly for late-night laughs, this ultraviolent action flick fails to make sense even of its own premise. A busload of Texas convicts are freed when heavily armed commandos open fire on them. The survivors and commandos take over a shopping mall, gathering numerous hostages together, shooting them when the mood strikes, or just to thin the acting herd. One mall guard shouts hysterically into his walkie-talkie until a compassionate squib puts him out of his misery. Behind this bold prison break is an infamous money launderer (Paul Ben-Victor), whom we may thank for all the weaponry, and Joe Ray (Kevin Gage), whose brother Ruby Ray (Mickey Rourke), a former Texas Ranger, has infiltrated the mall stronghold in order to get his brother out. What follows is plenty of violence, with big guys like Danny Trejo refusing to die no matter how many bullets hit him. Should be rated R for excessive use of improbabilities and gratuitous voiceover narration.--Jim Gay
Point Blank Reviews:
The plot is a mess...the acting is lousy...but the violence is top notch !!! 
2005-08-31 - If you really don't care if a movie makes any sense, and you prefer graphic violence to good acting...then this may be the DVD for you !!! Otherwise it is a complete piece of trash.
Opening scene: A prison bus full of the slimiest, most degenerate criminals in all of Texas (and that is saying a lot) is "rescued" by a gang of murderous henchmen with rockets and anti-tank weapons. Law enforcement officers are butchered and blown to pieces....the prisoners then travel to a Fort Worth shopping mall and take it over, slashing, blasting and pistol whipping innocent shoppers at will. Why they are going to the mall, rather than simply splitting up and completing their escape is never satisfactorily explained.
Soon they are surrounded by hundreds of law enforcement officers, who serve as easy targets as they wander around the parking lot while the convicts blast them with recoiless rifles and gatling guns mounted on the mall roof. In fact, all law enforcement figures in this movie, particularly the FBI, are depicted as complete idiots who are joyously blasted to smithereens by the convicts....it appears that the author of this wretched "screenplay" has a real problem with authority figures.
If all of this sounds like mindless nonsense, then save yourself some time and money and move on to better movies; otherwise, keep reading...it just gets worse.
Mickey Rourke appears on the scene. He has obviously been lifting weights for the last 10 years and guzzling steroids like M&M's....he is positively huge....as big as Arnold in "Conan the Barbarian", and every bit as amusing. Sweaty and greasy as usual, he is the brother of the convict leader (who orchestrated the escape). Apparently he intends to rescue his brother by sneaking into the mall and killing everyone he sees....how this will rescue his brother is not clear, and who really cares??? because it is a great excuse to sneak around and break people's necks with exotic karate moves and stab them with various sharp objects. If you want a meaningful plot, you should have heeded my warning and stopped reading long ago.
The balance of the movie features naked pole dancing, coke snorting that rivals Al Pacino in Scarface, simulated oral sex, multiple homicides, neck snappings, slow gut stabbings, miscellaneous throat slittings, and even a near-death by table saw. Sure....none of these charming events relate in any way to a meaningful plot, but obviously (since you are still reading this review) you could care less. This is a mindless gore-fest from the opening scene to the final, unsatisfying conclusion (which, as a bonus, features the longest, silliest dying scene since Monty Python and the Holy Grail).
If you enjoy such outrageous "entertainment" (and I must admit that I sometimes do) then this may be just what the doctor (definitely not a psychiatrist) ordered. Otherwise, it is pure, shameless trash that should be banned in all civilized countries (even Texas).
Wow... that was so bad I think I have to die right now! 
2004-12-21 - One good thing about this movie is that it helped me find religion. It was so bad that I actually wrote a prayer: Oh great and loving God, take mercy upon this, the lowliest of your creatures. Burn my brain, I beseech thee... yeah with fire, acid, turpentine, and super-hot hot sauce lay waste to the portion of my brain which remembers having viewed "Point Blank" with Mickey Rourke! Keep me safe and guide my steps far, far from future viewings, so that in thy mercy I might instead feast upon broken glass and burning hot lava, and smear my naked buttox with honey and lay me upon a hill of ants rather than ever see this film again. Amen.
Like many of you, I first came across this little gem while searching for the 1967 masterpiece of funkadelic nihilism starring Lee Marvin. Well, of course THAT'S not out of DVD yet, but since I'm a huge fan of Mickey Rourke (for reasons which, as his career progresses, I find more and more difficult to remember), I thought "Wow, Mickey Rourke just re-made one of the coolest movies of all time... might be worth watching." Boy, was THAT a mistake!
First of all, this IS NOT a remake of Lee Marvin/John Boorman's Point Blank. That's two strikes against Rourke, because he ALSO starred in "Bullet," a stupid piece of crap which had nothing to do with Steve McQueen's "Bullit," another of the great guy films of all time. It's about a bunch of escaped convicts who are really bad and blow some stuff up and are at a mall and Mickey Rourke Kills them. 'Nuff said re the plot.
One thing that really sticks out about this film is that Rourke, typically a pretty muscular dude, is positively STEROIDAL! I mean, he put on SO MUCH muscle for this role that his skin literally looks as if it's going to fissure and peel off! I don't know what he was on, but it must be something we normally use on farm animals!
the worst film EVER! 
2001-04-03 - This is without the worst film i have ever seen. worth seeing on that basis. all english viewers look out for mathew corbet out of sooty. he gets shot. and hes actually holding sooty. a top laugh. watch it!
Kevin Gage is a success!
2000-09-20 - If you've ever seen a movie with Kevin Gage in it you would notice that he is a dominating character. There is no exception in "Point Blank." I think this was one of Kevin's best movies. Even though he did very well in G.I. Jane, Kevin has one of the leading roles in this movie as Mickey Rourke's brother. It starts with Kevin being in jail and Mickey trying to get him out. Then there is an accident and people are taken hostage. I don't want to give anything else away. If you want a suspense filled movie watch "Point Blank" I guarantee you'll at least enjoy it.
NEGATIVE 5 STARS!
2000-05-24 - "Point Blank" is the most offensively stupid movie out there. It boggles the mind knowing that when the makers put this movie together, they were actually being serious about their work.
The action sequences, the dialogue, and the overall plot of the movie is so shamelessly horrible, further words about it couldn't describe it.
The scriptwriter put the Marine Corps in way too many characters' background, probably just because he thought it would make the movie cooler. Pathetic.
You can't really blame the director or actors because they can only work with what was written in the first place. Still, they should be ashamed for even having their names associated with this film.
The only reason you should buy this movie is so you can BURN IT WITHOUT EVEN OPENING THE CASE!
