Point Blank

Point Blank is a 2010 French action-thriller film directed by Fred Cavayé and starring Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, and Elena Anaya. The film released on 1 December 2010. Plot Samuel Pierret, a nurse's aide, accompanies his pregnant wife Nadia (Elena Anaya) to her sonogram appointment where she is told to stay in bed to avoid complications. Meanwhile, Hugo Sartet, a safecracker and hired thief, is running from two hitmen. When he is hit by a motorcycle, the hitmen flee and he is rushed to Samuel's hospital. Samuel sees a man leave Hugo's bedside and arrives just in time to reinsert Sartet's unplugged respirator. This attack prompts the police to provide security under Captain Catherine Fabre. While discussing the assassination attempt, another captain, Patrick Werner, arranges to have jurisdiction transferred to him, saying that Sartet is linked to his Meyer case. When Samuel returns home, he and Nadia are attacked and she is abducted. Samuel gets a call saying he must help Sartet escape if he wants to see his wife again. At the hospital, the police guard refuses to let Sartet leave but Samuel subdues him with a defibrillator. Samuel then wakes Sartet with adrenaline and forces him to leave, using the policeman's gun. When Nadia's captors call again, they are revealed to be Sartet's brother, Luc and a man named Marconi. The brothers arrange the hostage trade at a railway station but when Samuel and Sartet arrive, Sartet notices the two hitmen. Knowing they are dirty cops, Sartet persuades Samuel to flee to his apartment. While Sartet is showering, Samuel decides he does not trust them to return his wife and calls Fabre. However, police led by Captain Werner arrives first. When Fabre arrives, Werner shoots her, revealing himself to be crooked. Werner tells his men to kill the others and leaves but Samuel and Sartet overcomes them and Sartet coerces information from a cop named Vogel. Vogel says Werner enlisted Sartet, with Marconi's help, to crack wealthy Meyer's safe to cover up Meyer's murder, intending to kill Sartet after the job.