Point of No Return | | Cast : | Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney | | Director : | John Badham | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | March 19, 1993 | | DVD Released Date : | February 03, 2004 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 16, 2005 | | Summary | Good show about new lives, espionage, and assasins! | Content
 | "Does anyone...ever get out?"
Bridget Fonda is awesome in this show, it has tons of intrigue, assasinations, top secret government stuff, action, romance, mystery...just go see it!!
Director John Badham's remake of French action thriller La Femme Nikita moves the action to the U.S., where Maggie (Bridget Fonda) is a strung-out Washington, D.C. drug addict who kills a policeman in a pharmaceutical-induced haze. Sentenced to death, Maggie is rescued by a shady operative, Bob (Gabriel Byrne), who offers to save her life if she'll become a covert government assassin.
Maggie agrees and trains for a life as a professional killer under a new name, Claudia. Her classes include weaponry, martial arts, explosives, and even social graces under the tutelage of Amanda (Anne Bancroft). Claudia is transformed into a classy sophisticate and is assigned to Venice, California, where she falls for J.P. (Dermot Mulroney), an attractive photographer who lives downstairs. Claudia's highly dangerous job soon interferes when she's ordered to carry out a series of clever assassinations, including a hit in a restaurant and a hotel bombing. When one particular killing goes horribly wrong, she gets some assistance from Victor the Cleaner (Harvey Keitel), a disposal artist who may have also been ordered to get rid of Claudia. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 02, 2005 | | Summary | ''I'm the cleaner...'' | Content
| Servicable american remake of the french cult classic 'Nikita'- solid effort all around, but Harvey keitel as the cleaner wins it the high rating- even colder and more of a threat here than Reno's interpretation. Good fun. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 17, 2004 | | Summary | Completely pointless remake | Content
| Decently acted, this American remake of Luc Besson's classic "La Femme Nikita" is still pretty flat, which is odd, because it literally copies the original nearly frame by frame, and the original has a truly magical spark and energy to it. If you've seen the original and then viewed this version, "Point of No Return" becomes an appalling experience that highlights the very worst creativity-by-committee aspects of Hollywood. Buy the original "La Femme Nikita", deal with the subtitles, and whatever you do, stay away from the dreary and over-dramatized TV series of the same name. "La Femme Nikita" is excellent, even if you don't like French movies (and to be honest the dubbed version on the most recent editions of that DVD is reasonably watchable), you'll like this one. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 06, 2003 | | Summary | Oh La La! | Content
| "Point of No Return" is the first movie in a looong time that I have rewound certain scenes and replayed them several times during our showing of it -much to my husband's dismay! But, oh MY, the sexual tension between Gabriel Byrne and Bridget Fonda just sizzles. I love the poignant way this movie protrays the many ways we can love one another. Nothing is more complicated than human emotions and this movie really demonstates that well. |
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