Point Blank - from a short distance

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Movie
German title Point Blank - from a short distance
Original title À bout portant
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2010
length 81 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Fred Cavayé
script Fred Cavayé
Guillaume Lemans
production Cyril Colbeau-Justin
Jean-Baptiste Dupont
music Klaus Badelt
camera Alain Duplantier
cut Benjamin Weill
occupation

Point Blank - from close range ( À bout portant ) is a French action - thriller from the year 2010 . The film is also known as Point Blank .

The film received several remakes, including in the 2014 South Korean film The Target and in 2019 by Netflix under the title Point Blank .

action

While fleeing from two armed men, Hugo Sartet was hit by a motorcycle at night and was admitted to hospital seriously injured. Since he has no papers with him, his identity remains unclear at first. The nurse Samuel Pierret notices that someone has tampered with Sartet's supply hoses and saves his life. The next morning, he was knocked unconscious in his apartment by a stranger. When his cell phone rang, he was informed that his wife Nadia, who was seven months pregnant, had been kidnapped. He is supposed to get Sartet out of the hospital and in return his wife will be handed over to him.

Pierret eliminates the policeman who was ordered to protect Sartet at his bedside and threatens Sartet with the policeman's service pistol in order to force him to cooperate. In the meantime, Sartet is identified by the police around Commandant Catherine Fabre using fingerprints. It turns out that he is wanted as the alleged murderer of the industrialist Francis Meyer, who was shot the night before. However, the management of the case will be transferred to Commandant Patrick Werner, as he has been after Sartet for years.

Pierret and Sartet manage to leave the hospital, but the exchange at the train station fails, as two armed men appear there who are chasing them. Pierret and Sartet escape and hide in a small apartment. Samuel takes care of Hugo's wounds and learns from the news that he is now being hunted by the police as a dangerous criminal who is accused of being involved in the murder of Francis Meyer.

He calls Commandant Fabre to tell her about the case. But surprisingly, Commandant Werner appears first in the apartment with his people, among whom are Sartet's pursuers, and arrests Pierret and Sartet. When Catherine Fabre arrives a little later, she is surprised that Werner is already in the apartment, although she alone received the tip from Pierret. Werner kills her from behind and leaves the apartment with Sartet's pursuer. Pierret is able to free himself so that Sartet can kill her guards. He tortures a policeman - but leaves him alive injured. In doing so, he learns that Werner is a corrupt detective who works with his department on his own account. Werner was hired by Meyer's son to force his father to change the will and then to kill him. Werner's plan was to blame Hugo Sartet for the murder and kill him. He let Marconi hire him to rob Meyer's safe in his office shortly after his murder. Werner wants to use the footage from the surveillance camera from Meyer's office to blackmail his son.

Sartet and Pierret escape and discover that Sartet's brother Luc has been killed and that Pierret's wife has been kidnapped by Werner's men. Hugo asks underground friends for help. As it later turns out, they are supposed to commit a variety of crimes in order to overwhelm the police so that they can steal the video from Werner's office undetected. Sartet forces Marconi to inform Werner by phone that Sartet has registered with Marconi for the next day in order to lure Werner and his people out of the police station. During the elaborate diversionary maneuver, Pierret and Sartet smuggle their way into the police headquarters. Pierret saves his wife, who is supposed to be pushed out of a window by an accomplice of Werner, while Hugo gets the USB stick with the video from Werner's safe. Fabre's people then watch the video and arrest Werner.

Eight years later, Pierret's wife Nadia is pregnant again. There is an article on the news that reports on Werner's suicide. He hanged himself while on leave over Christmas. However, Sartet probably killed him in revenge for the murder of his brother.

criticism

"" Point Blank - From a short distance "offers brilliant, French high-voltage cinema that is extremely pleasant to pull on the nerves. In terms of speed, types, movement and above all in the (METRO and ultimately the police station) action motifs, this is a great emotional "quick thriller": In less than 90, constantly entertaining minutes, it can be "Hollywood" class -Paroli offer. "

- Germany radio

"Exciting, albeit slightly chaotic, gangster thriller in which a common man becomes a hero."

- Lexicon of international film

"Great adrenaline cinema with small weaknesses."

- Cinema

publication

The film had its world premiere on November 4, 2010 at the Festival du film de La Réunion and then started regularly in cinemas on December 1, 2010. In Germany it was released directly on DVD on April 20, 2012 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Point Blank - from a short distance . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 655 V).
  2. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Pönack: A sharp thrill movie on dradio.de , accessed on August 14, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Point Blank - From a short distance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Point Blank - from a short distance on cinema.de , accessed on August 14, 2012
  5. ↑ Publication in the Internet Movie Database