This is a very aggressive track that comes at you from all across the soundstage delivering crisp and concise channel separation and plenty of interesting, subtle background activity. A dubbed track is provided in English DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio as well but the French track is the way to go here. Point Blank arrives on Blu-ray with an ass kicking French language DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio track with optional subtitles available in English, English SDH and Spanish. There are no noticeable problems with edge enhancement or mpeg compression and really, Magnolia has done a great job here, leaving nothing to really complain about. Contrast looks a little warmer than maybe it needed to be in some scenes, but there's no doubt that this was a stylistic choice on the part of the filmmakers and not a flaw on the Blu-ray disc. Color reproduction is dead on, though keep in mind that this film leans towards darker imagery so you won't get that candy-coated 'pop' that some HD transfers offer, particularly once the settings switch to the abandoned buildings. Black levels are deep and strong without ever breaking up but skin tones look just a little bit orange for some reason. Detail level is strong in pretty much every scene with the darker nighttime and indoor scenes exhibiting strong shadow detail and more lighter daytime and interior shots showing off even more texture and subtle nuances in the picture. The 1080p 2.35.1 AVC encoded transfer on this Blu-ray release is very good indeed, if not always perfect. Wrap this up with some believable and emotionally involving performances and you wind up with a kick ass action movie that really just gets things right. On top of that, the film has got some great cinematography and a score that never goes over the top but instead compliments the action perfectly. This grounds the film in the real world and if we have to suspend our disbelief for a scene in which our two begrudging heroes sneak their way into a police station unnoticed (something that probably wouldn't happen undetected these days), we can forgive the movie for that. Cavaye omits massive scale shoot-outs and bullet ballet and instead relies on more down to earth and believable tactics. The plot twists and turns and keeps you guessing but never has to resort to gimmicks or the like, instead it crafts interesting characters and puts them in interesting situations - as such, we definitely want to see how all of this plays out and the suspense turns out to be pretty intense at times.Īs far as the action scenes go, they're done on a very realistic scale. This movie is fast, mean, clever and really well made making great use of the Parisian locations, taking us on a journey through the underground and into various abandoned buildings and warehouses, giving us a look at the grittier side of the French capital. Incredibly well paced, Point Blank may look and sound like a generic straight to video action movie based on its cover art and American title but don't let that fool you into thinking it is. With Nadia's life on the line and time quickly running out, Samuel and the man, whose name turns out to be Hugo, form an alliance and decide to set things right. So Samuel does just that - he heads into the hospital and sneaks the man out of there, knocking out a cop and evading more cops along the way - but soon finds himself involved in a complicated mess that reaches from Paris' criminal underworld all the way up the chain to some high ranking police officials. He answers the phone and is told that if he doesn't get the man he just saved out of the hospital in three hours, his wife will be killed. Samuel wakes up, a cell phone ringing and his wife gone. Happy about his 'rescue' Samuel heads home and tells his pregnant wife, Nadia (Elena Anaya), all about the day's events before being promptly beaten over the head by an unseen assailant. The man wakes up in the hospital where a male nurse named Samuel (Gilles Lellouche) saves him from someone impersonating a doctor and obviously trying to kill him. Cast: Roschdy Zem, Gilles Lellouche, Elena Anayaįred Cavaye's 2010 film Point Blank hits the ground running, literally, as it opens with a chase scene where a man (Roschdy Zem) is tailed by two gun totting dudes into a tunnel where, just before they can pull the trigger, he's hit by a motorcycle.
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