Hard gritty, British spin on the John Boorman / Lee Marvin art thriller
Point Blank. Michael Caine's persona became cast in stone as Carter, a
London gangster out for revenge "up north". The mood of the
late 1960s and early 1970s is nicely captured (dour, overcast skies
lend the camerawork that distinctively flat British look, with
concrete aberrations springing up all over the place), while Hodges
gives proceedings a tidy if obvious art-house sheen. Having said that,
the modern crop of British gangster films come nowhere near this
standard. A classic - how classic depends on your liking for Michael
Caine.
