Point Blank (1998)

[Lando 2019]

Let me see if I can describe this movie. It's like someone who had only directed episodes of Baywatch and softcore porn decided that they wanted to make a cross between Con Air and Die Hard with the poor man's Bruce Willis--Mickey Rourke. Danny Trejo is in this and his character is essentially the same rapey convict as in Con Air, but possibly creepier (he is a really convincing rapist). Paul Ben-Victor (who played one of the Greeks in season 2 of The Wire) plays a criminal mastermind with an accent I can't quite place, it's sort of like an upper-crust British accent without the British (You really have to hear it for yourself)

The plot is that a bunch of escaped convicts hijack a mall while Mickey Rourke's character sneaks around inside the mall taking out the bad guys one by one. This is bad movie making at its finest, bad acting, bad dialog and choppy editing. Right now it is on Netflix Instant until July 1, but I really hope it renews because as I said before it's a jewel of a bad movie.

[Lando 2019]

Last night I started trying to explain this scene and my explanation made no sense, but not in a way that conveys how the scene itself makes almost no sense so I finally found it on youtube:

 

 

Now in case you're wondering this scene is NOT altered from the screen, this is exactly how it appears in the film. It took my four viewings to figure out what was going on.

 

Also, here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-8updybCM

[Lando 2019]

If anyone is interested in watching this mess it's on hulu until 4/1

 

I am going to have to rewatch it.

[PhilboRaggins 9]

PLEASE DO THIS MOVIE

[Lando 2019]

I know I make up 80% of the responses in this thread, but I feel really strongly about having Jason, Paul and June watch this movie and then dissecting it. I am rewatching it now and it's really poorly edited and incoherent in the Easy Rider 2 sort of way. Honestly, I think the director/editor had only done montages and that explains so much of the movie. It spectacularly fails to tell a coherent story.

 

Also, I have to add that this movie has a great bad scene where Danny Trejo takes one of the hostages to a back room where she pole dances for him (while giving the weirdest facial expression) and he snorts a Tony Montana pile of cocaine. Words can't even describe how weird this scene is, you just have to see it for yourself.

 

There is also a great scene where Danny Trejo and Mickey fight in a paint warehouse and Mickey carthwheels his way through avoiding gun shots, mostly in slow mo with generic guitar music playing.