If you loved Blue Thunder, try Point of No Return

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

You already loved

Both films are directed by John Badham, and they both carry the paranoid, raw mood tags, and they sit in Action / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Blue Thunder, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Point of No Return is

Midnight execution chamber. A red light pulses on the wall. Maggie survives the lethal injection. Wakes inside a black van, breathing through a tube. A director from the late-eighties neo-noir boom could have shot this as a single-take heist film.

If you loved Blue Thunder, try Point of No Return

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What Point of No Return is

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