"You're supposed to be dead. Lynne said so.She's dead.
Lynne? You?
No, her."
Lee Marvin in the role of Walker is definitely not the most gabbler character in the film history. His remarkable face (his last role in the Delta Force, huh), long legs and arms together with super-cool silence is already classic. I suppose the Point Blank without him wouldn't be a cult one among the first neo noirs.
Sad but true, this film cannot reach the heights what the other Boorman-movie delivered:), five years after the Point Blank. Of course I'm talking about the nightmarish perfect Deliverance, which – with Jon Voigt and Burt Reynolds – is one of my favorites from the very strong (New) Hollywood-seventies.
But back to Marvin's Walker, who starts a classic vengence spree after he was coned by his own wife and best friend, Reese. It seems and he claims that he only needs his share, some 93.000$, but we know that is just a reason to chase and hunt down the whole San Francisco and L.A. 'Organization'. It seems that the job is going pretty well even without a moustache...
As I said it won't be my favorite, but despite of my high and (probably that's why) unsatisfied expectations it is still worth to watch. The way how Boorman mixed the classic way of storytelling with some art house style values (brave flashbacks, fast parallel montages) makes the film and Marvin even more tough and rough.
Just think on the unbelievable scene when Walker finds his rotten wife. He is just silently sitting on a sofa and starts to forgive her. The woman leaves, later he follows her, enters the bedroom, wants to kiss the woman... but she doesn't react...
anymore.
Cool.
7/10
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