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movie review - Point Blank

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2019.07.18

This is an implausible tale of a crook who is freed from hospital by a nurse. The nurse cooperates because the cops have kidnapped his wife. From there, it's a fairly high-energy buddy-cop story except of course they're not cops and the actual police are very much the baddies. It's played straight and I have to say I enjoyed it. It's not exactly brilliant, and you can get the entire story from this short trailer but I disagree with the current rating on IMDB. This is a 7/10.

Recommended.

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