Legacy
Point Blank is hailed in the book 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die as "The perfect thriller in both form and vision." Film historian David Thomson calls the film a masterpiece. Thomson adds, " this is not just a cool, violent pursuit film, it is a wistful dream and one of the great reflections on how movies are fantasies that we are reaching out for all the time—it's singin' in the rain again, the white lie that erases night." Director Steven Soderbergh has said that he used stylistic touches from Point Blank many times in his filmmaking career.
The Hunter was the basis for three further feature films: Ringo Lam's Full Contact (1997), starring Chow Yun-fat, Brian Helgeland's Payback (1999), starring Mel Gibson, and Taylor Hackford's Parker (2013), starring Jason Statham.
Director Boorman has joked that Payback was so bad that Mel Gibson must have taken the original script for Point Blank that Boorman and Marvin had thrown out.
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