Grosse Point Blank (1997)
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2025 Update: This review from the archives was first published in 1999 at my very first film review site, which was called Green Lake Reflections, and was sponsored by a local church. I would soon make it an independent site called Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet.
Grosse Point Blank is almost unclassifiable. Director George Armitage (Miami Blues) has cooked up what is bound to become a cult classic — but where will you shelve it in a video store? What is it? A gangster movie/romance hybrid? A nostalgia-trip comedy? A shoot-em-up/you-can’t-go-home-again morality play?
Nope, none of those makeshift labels will serve. But unless you’re averse to some bone-rattling shoot-outs — for some, let’s face it, even comic violence is a “gross point” — there are a world of reasons to see this wonderful... uh... this movie.