Point Of No Return (1993)

[Cricket21a]

Anybody seen it?  Liked it?  It has Bridget Fonda  and John Badham in it.  Basically it's about a girl name Maggie(Bridget Fonda) that is convicted of murder and sentenced to die, but a goverment agency takes her and turns her into an assassin.

[Ellie]

I do believe it is a remake of a movie called "Le Femme Nikita". Both of them were pretty good movies.

[Ash]

I thought it was pretty good.

Harvey Keitel was great as The Cleaner.

And what kind of gun was that that was given to her in the nice plush lined box?

I'd love to have one of those!

[mr. henry]

try and check out the original french version

[Neville]

It is indeed a remake of the french movie "La femme Nikita", which was also remade into the TV series starring Peta Wilson. I thought it was OK, even the additions / changes in the final third are well thought, but it shamelessly copies all the rest from the original (dialogues, even narrative frame by frame) to the extent it makes little sense to watch both.

The original is a bit better if you ask me, because Jean Reno plays Victor the cleaner even better than Keitel and the whole feel is somehow darker. It may be because of the main actress. Anne Parillaud looks, despite its actions, more vulnerable than Bridget Fonda.

[Eirik]

Yeah, the government is always handing out security clearances and vitally important missions to drugged out murderers.  

Not an ounce of remorse shown by the Fonda character for the person she had a hand in murdering.

They set up one assassination without telling Fonda or her handler who the hell was getting assassinated until the person as almost out of her sights.  Why?  I mean besides to cause some contrived tension.

This woman's walking around assassinating people in America... and her boss has a foreign accent.  Who the hell's side is she on?

I guess you can say I didn't like it.  And judging by the subsequent career path of one Bridget Fonda, I do not believe I am in the minority.

[Susan]

While I liked the point of no return when i saw the original I didn't know what to expect, but i really enjoyed it alot more.

The only thing that kind of bothered me was when she went shopping and followed some woman around getting everything she did in excess amounts, I mean a person can be a heroin addict or crackhead their entire life, it doesn't mean you don't know how to shop. maybe it's me ;-)

[The Burgomaster]

I sort of liked POINT OF NO RETURN the first time I saw it.  I have seen it a couple of times since then, and it just seems silly to me now.  I understand the original French film is much better.

[Gerry]

The Burgomaster wrote:

> I sort of liked POINT OF NO RETURN the first time I saw it.  I
> have seen it a couple of times since then, and it just seems
> silly to me now.  I understand the original French film is much
> better.

POINT OF NO RETURN is entertaining enough, but yes, LA FEMME NIKITA is a million times better.  There's a very nice DVD of it out too.

[Kirk]

ASHTHECAT wrote:

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I'd love to have one of those!>>

Hammerli 280 target pistol - chambered in either .22LR or .32S&W LWC.  They are discontinued, but you can find them used for around $1,500-$2,000.  Big gun, I've never seen a nickle-plated one outside of that movie.  Pretty p**s poor choice for an assassin, "Here's the biggest, shiniest pistol we could find, now you go quietly whack that guy over there."   It's not a lot of bullet for that much gun either.  I'd want something small, supressed and subsonic if I was in that position.  Maybe a Glock 30 with a supressor.

Kirk