Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Gilles Lellouche | ... | Samuel Pierret | |
Roschdy Zem | ... | Hugo Sartet | |
Gérard Lanvin | ... | Commandant Patrick Werner | |
Elena Anaya | ... | Nadia Pierret | |
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Mireille Perrier | ... | Commandant Fabre |
Claire Pérot | ... | Capitaine Anaïs Susini | |
Moussa Maaskri | ... | Capitaine Vogel | |
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Pierre Benoist | ... | Capitaine Mercier |
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Valérie Dashwood | ... | Capitaine Moreau |
Virgile Bramly | ... | Capitaine Mansart | |
Nicky Naudé | ... | Capitaine Richert (as Nicky Naude) | |
Adel Bencherif | ... | Luc Sartet | |
Vincent Colombe | ... | Interne de garde | |
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Chems Dahmani | ... | Aide-soignant |
Grégoire Bonnet | ... | Jaffart, chef DPJ |
Samuel Pierret (Gilles Lellouche) is a nurse who saves the wrong guy -- a thief (Roschdy Zem) whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife (Elena Anaya) hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety? Written by thewanger
Outside of Hollywood, good and realistic action films can be successful without the Hollywood Big 3 of American action films.....CGI, car chases and boo-coo explosions. And, French films always deliver when mean, harsh, brutal and uncaring play the main roles. Great looking pregnant wife, Liam Neesom-resembling husband, despicable and brutal criminals uncaring about human values and life, and brutal dirty cops even less caring about human life made this one of my faves for the year so far.
Point Blank was a 100% serious film with great pacing and no smart-ass or comedic side tracks or poorly placed romance throw-ins as are so often stupidly done by Hollywood, plus it had plenty of the most terrifying and brutal behavior of human psychopathy to scare you silly. Other than a few timing errors where the director stayed with a few scenes longer than he should have for best effect, such as the one when the dirty cop was discovered, it was a well done seat-edge thriller to the end. And, yes, we all knew how it would end, as all those horrible experiences resulted in a typical ending.......good for the good guys and bad for the baddies.
How regular people in real life could ever have more or less normal lives after all that bloody terror and murder is beyond my understanding, but somehow these film characters seemed to be able to do it.