Samuel is a happily married nurse working in a Paris hospital. When his very pregnant wife is kidnapped before his eyes, everything falls apart. After being knocked unconscious, he comes to and his cell phone rings: he has three hours to get Sartet, a man under police surveillance, out of the hospital. Shot on location in wide lens, POINT BLANK is an exhilarating non-stop ride through Paris’ streets, subways, hospitals, warehouses, and police stations, as Samuel quickly finds himself pitted against rival gangsters and trigger-happy police in a deadly race to save the lives of his wife and unborn child.
“POINT BLANK will leave you breathless. It grips you at frame one and doesn’t let go. This tiptop French thriller stands as a rebuke to a Hollywood system that can’t seem to make them like this anymore.” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times)
“It leaves you with an endorphin high. An exhilarating adrenaline rush.” (Stephen Holden, New York Times)
“Supremely entertaining. The impeccable cast works wonders in an exhilarating, high-speed race against the clock.” (Laura Kern, Film Comment)