Exciting and well-crafted, Point Blank more or less does right what so many recent American action films have been doing wrong, as one can read in our Tribeca review. Directed by Fred Cavayé, who helmed Pour elle, which was remade into Paul Haggis‘ The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe, this French thriller hits theaters this month and we have a new US trailer. Coming on the heels of an international trailer, this one packs intensity and hopefully can connect with audiences over here. For the film starring Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, and Mireille Perrier, you can see the trailer below via Apple.
Synopsis:
Samuel (Lellouche) is a happily married nurse working in a Paris hospital. When his very pregnant wife (Anaya) is kidnapped before his helpless eyes, everything falls apart. After being knocked unconscious, he comes to and his cell phone rings: he has three hours to get Sartet (Zem), 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 hits theaters July 29th.
What do you think of this new trailer?