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Don't waste your precious time. Watch the original directed by Luc Besson.
I couldn't really enjoy this 1993 remake, knowing the so much better original from 1990.
Point of No Return
- Action
- Crime
- Thriller
3/19/1993
108
R
The government gave her a choice. Death. Or life as an assassin. Now, there's no turning back.
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom killer and subdued into obedience.
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- $30,038,362
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Cast
Bridget FondaMaggie Hayward
Gabriel ByrneBob- Dermot MulroneyJ. P.
- Miguel FerrerKaufman
- Anne BancroftAmanda
- Olivia d'AboAngela
- Richard RomanusFahd Bahktiar
- Harvey KeitelVictor the Cleaner
- Lorraine ToussaintBeth
- Geoffrey LewisDrugstore Owner
- Mic RodgersCop
- Michael RapaportBig Stan
Ray OrielBurt- Spike McClureJohnny D.
- Lieux DresslerJohnny's Mom
- John CapodiceDetective
Reviews
John Chard
New Dawn - New Day - New Life.
Point of No Return (AKA: The Assassin) is directed by John Badham and written by Robert Getchell and Alexander Seros. It stars Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Anne Bancroft and Harvey Keitel. Music is by Hans Zimmer and cinematography (Panavision/Technicolor) by Michael Ferris and Michael Watkins.
When drug addict Maggie Hayward (Fonda) kills a policeman in cold blood, she is promptly sentenced to death by lethal injection. But maybe there is an out? A chance to work for the government?
Why so serious?
A remake of Luc Besson's Nikita, this was always going to suffer the usual remake taunts of why bother? Was it necessary etc? Point of No Return is a good honest action movie, it has ...