You think he was dead until he resurfaces at the end all covered in blood and paint wielding two guns yelling “Where are you goin’ with my hostages?!”. Until another one of the baddies comes up and shoots Trejo for a reason I still don’t fully understand. The showdown between Rourke and Trejo is satisfying as they tear down the walls of an area of the mall that is under construction. There is a lot of cool slow-mo gunplay and some memorable kills involving shooting knives and suffocation by plastic bag while hanging from the ceiling.Ī Case for Daniel Bernhardt and ‘Bloodsport 4: The Dark Kumite’ (1999) Yes! He dishes out the punishment with some nice kicks, strikes and takedowns that would make Van Damme proud, while on the other hand, makes Trejo go apeshit as he at one point says “Who are you? Bruce fucking Lee?!”. I heard he got to train in some martial arts around that time and here in Point Blank, he gets to lay down his own brand of Van Damage. This also comes off the heels of going up against Van Damme in Double Team.
#Point blank 1998 professional
This was a time in Rourke’s career where he was also delving into professional boxing in the real world, so he was in tip-top shape. I still couldn’t wait to see Rourke come through and take em all out one by one and he did just that.
#Point blank 1998 movie
The movie takes some time to let you give you some backstory of each of the convicts, attempting to make you sympathize with them, but to no avail. His father encourages him to go in and get his brother out of there, so he sets out to do just that. Nicolas Cage in ‘Con Air’ – The 90s Action Hero We Never Knew We Needed (Part 2)Įnter a muscled-up Mickey Rourke, an ex-Texas ranger who is spending some quiet time with his father played by James Gammon (Major League/Silverado) when he finds out about what’s going on. They end up taking over a local mall in brutal and decisive fashion, killing many, before taking hostages and making their demands. A layer to the movie that gets more and more interesting as it goes.Īnyway, it wastes no time for the bullets to start flying in a successful breakout attempt. Sitting alongside him are fellow prisoners Wallace (played by Danny Trejo who needs no introduction), Michael Wright as Sonny (who is actually produced and wrote a song that was part of the Lionheart soundtrack) and Kevin Gage as Joe Ray ( Heat) who plays the brother of Rourke.
Here he gives a surprisingly slick and cold-blooded performance as the mastermind behind the breakout. His resume includes everything from True Romance to Daredevil, Tombstone to Red Scorpion II. One of them being corporate criminal Howard played by Paul Ben-Victor – one of those actors whose name might not ring a bell at first, but one you will surely recognize when you see his face. The movie starts off with a group of convicts being transported on a bus. VHS Vault: Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991) I think he always has a certain old school movie star presence to him, always underappreciated in the acting department and is just plain cool no matter what kind of movie he is in. In 1998’s Point Blank we got just that and how it wasn’t “theater worthy” is beyond me! One of those DTV 90s action movies that were every bit as good as a lot of things that hit the theaters. Danny Trejo in a Die Hard-In-A-Mall situation? Where do I sign up?!
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