Point Blank (1967) ****1/2

Damn, the 60s really was one the best decades ever for film. Lee Marvin as Walker is easily one of the most badass characters in any film ever. The dreamy psychedelic sequences, the jazzy Schifrin-like score by Johnny Mandel, the great supporting roles (Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Michael Strong, John Vernon), the style, the time shifts/jump cuts, the economy of John Boorman's filmmaking—there is so much to savor here. Point Blank (1967) was a huge influence on Steven Soderbergh's The Limey (1999) (another favorite film) and was remade, as a lesser but still great film called Payback (1999), both based on Donald E. Westlake's (writing as Richard Stark) novel The Hunter (1962).