ejm duggan (ejmd@cwcom.net)
Mon, 02 Aug 1999 10:44:52 +0000
On Sun, 01 Aug 1999, Martha Pennigar <msmartha@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> I also saw both Point Blank and Payback and feel
that both express too
> much, for better and worse, the sensibilities of
their times to really
> compare well.
I went to Blockbusters to have a look at the tape they had
entitled Payback seemed to be the wrong one (no Lee Marvin).
As I recall, it was about a bunch of crims being transferred
from one place to another, and the inevitable happens (break
out and shooting).
Point Blank, I think, is about a (dying?) crim who offers to
tell a cellmate the wherabouts of a stash, on condition he
kills a guard.
There was no 'based on a novel ...' credit on either box,
although I might have the titles muddled by now ;-)
Anyway, both left me feeling uninspired, so I got out The
Killing Zone instead, which is a reasonably new UK film (v.
low budget) and is a lot of fun if you like swearing,
shooting and non-linear narrative. (Also got out Rocketeer,
which is a pulpy-style, kids adventure flick set in the 1930s
that the under 12s enjoyed).
ED
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