Point Blank, which bears no resemblance to the Lee Marvin revenge flick, starts with the thoroughly Hollywood scenario of a happily married nurse rescuing the wrong patient, whose associates kidnap the nurse's wife to pressgang him into delivering the crook to safety. This is rather complicated by having half the Paris police force on their tail, corrupt and thinking nothing of popping a cap in anyone between them and their target.
It may have breakneck pace aplenty but the concept is too overused to excite, and the surprises that come are rather through stretching credulity in ever more sketchy ways than through actual inventiveness on the part of the scriptwriters. It could actually have done with jacking up the ludicrosity to the gleeful level of a Statham vehicle.
4/10
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