it’s not quite over the top throughout to make it campy (though since it’s d-t-v they do manage to get away with more sex and violence than its big budget studio counterparts). there are more than a few editing gaffes. he just kinda shows up every once in a while to take out the bad guys one by one, with not too convincing martial arts moves. i don’t know if it’s because of scheduling but it doesn’t seem like mickey rouke is in the movie that much. It’s kind of interesting that the movie focuses mostly on the criminals in the mall. There are also a few unbearable/borderline laughable scenes involving the twilight-ish werner schreyer as a young not-really-bad convict. he also has most of the wtf moments in the movie (cocaine + coked up stripper pole dance), which almost takes it into so-bad-it’s-good territory. in fact, he pretty much plays the same character, except instead of just a sex criminal, he’s also doing coke in this movie. the convicts include michael wright (tv’s oz), kevin gage (heat), and danny “machete” trejo, who’s also in con air. imdb suggests that it was true romance for me. The convicts’ escape is bankrolled by a seemingly more white collar mastermind played by paul ben-victor, one of those character actors that you recognize from somewhere. rouke’s character is supposed to be some kind of ex-special force/war hero. when words came that his brother is one of the people who took over the mall, mickey snaps into action and decided to break into the mall to get his brother out. after the initial scenes, we see mickey rouke working at a farm with his father. for reasons never explained or maybe i missed, these prisoners end up taking over a mall.
so there’s the con air/the fugitive connection too.
Point blank 98 opens promisingly with scenes that’s very similar to the last two fast/furious movies with prisoners breaking free from a bus during transfer. it’s just kind of a catchall generic action movie title that in the end, doesn’t really mean much. and since mickey rouke is the only name in the picture, i’m sure i’m not the only one sold on the idea of mickey rouke as john mcclane in die-hard-in-a-mall.ĭespite its title, point blank (1998) has nothing to do with the lee marvin point blank (1967) nor the mel gibson remake of point blank (1967) called payback (1999) nor the brian helgeland payback: straight up – the director’s cut of payback (2006). the mall part also reminds me of dawn of the dead. I think what grabbed me is the “con air on the ground” part, which to me, is the middle part of speed, another die hard-ish movie. former texas ranger ruby ray infiltrates the killers’ compound to free his brother…” and then look at the netfLIx plot summary: “it’s con air on the ground when a busload of texas’s most deadly criminals is freed by an ambush and takes over a nearby shopping mall in this action thriller.
now click on that picture on the left and take a closer look. i think it was under the “hostage action thriller” category while adding all the die hard-ish movies. I first noticed point blank (1998) through netfLIx. some time next week i will hopefully get to the die-hard-in-a-ski-lodge movies. after breakaway aka christmas rush, i thought it would be interesting to do another die-hard-in-a-mall movie. so i guess this is a theme within a theme. I was going to do our non-screening die hard-ish movies in chronological order, but looking over all the possibilities i thought i would do some of them by themes.
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