Point of No Return is one of those Hollywood remakes of a European hit in which one can visualize a committee of studio executives sitting around and saying; "Okay; we know what made the original film unique and different and fun. How can we make that same movie and do exactly the opposite?" For-hire director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) took La Femme Nikita; Luc Besson's undeniably sexy; original; and kitschy French film about a female assassin; and translated it into a calculating; mechanistic American thriller with no distinctive style. Bridget Fonda gamely plays the willowy street punk who becomes a high-society killer; but once that provocative irony is in place; the movie is pretty much a series of by-the-numbers action set pieces. Until; that is; Dermot Mulroney shows up as a love interest; but even that twist can't save this film. You're much better off with the original; subtitles and all. --Tom Keogh