Point Blank

POINT BLANK - DVD Movie

Strictly for late-night laughs, this ultraviolent action flick fails to make sense even of its own premise. A busload of Texas convicts are freed when heavily armed commandos open fire on them. The survivors and commandos take over a shopping mall, gathering numerous hostages together, shooting them when the mood strikes, or just to thin the acting herd. One mall guard shouts hysterically into his walkie-talkie until a compassionate squib puts him out of his misery. Behind this bold prison break is an infamous money launderer (Paul Ben-Victor), whom we may thank for all the weaponry, and Joe Ray (Kevin Gage), whose brother Ruby Ray (Mickey Rourke), a former Texas Ranger, has infiltrated the mall stronghold in order to get his brother out. What follows is plenty of violence, with big guys like Danny Trejo refusing to die no matter how many bullets hit him. Should be rated R for excessive use of improbabilities and gratuitous voiceover narration.--Jim Gay