POINT BLANK from GAUMONT pictures (France 2010). The production budget climbed to $10.3 million. In France alone the box office hit $9.2 million. It was later distributed to the U.S.
I lived at Los Angeles in 2010. I saw this movie in an Independent theater on Sunset Boulevard. I absolutely loved it.
A French male nurse-in-training and his wife anticipate their first baby. She is 7 months along and is ordered to stay in bed for the remainder of the pregnancy. Meanwhile, a black man is shot in the stomach and is chased by two killers. He is also hit by a motorcycle and sent to the hospital. The male nurse watches over this man on the graveyard shift. An unknown killer tries to finish killing the man. The nurse saves his life and soon his pregnant wife is kidnapped. The nurse is forced to take the injured man out of the hospital. The chase begins and it is a thrill ride to the end.
There have been 4 remakes of the original "Point Blank."
*South Korea produced "The Target" (2014) and it separated the two male leads and focused on the injured criminal. Bad idea because the nurse and the criminal were forced to help each other.
*Netflix produced "Point Blank" (2019) with two handsome male "studs." Bad idea because the nurse and criminal were normal Frenchmen on the street.
*Bangladeshi produced "Password" (2019) and it was loosely based on the original French Thriller.
*Indian Tamil-language produced "Kadaram Kondan" (2019) and this is an exact remake. The exception is that the male nurse is a doctor. Bad idea because the nurse has no power until his wife is kidnapped. He then turns into a man who will do anything for his wife and unborn kid.
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