Disagree. Also a major Sinatra fan. Rate this as one of his best albums, and probably his best album cover. If he was phoning it in, he sure was a good connection.
It's a good album but could have been better. Sinatra was such an artist that even when he half-heartedly did an album, it still came off. On one of the songs, "There Will Never Be Another You", there is an obvious dub of the last word "you". This was because there was a technical glitch and the studio wanted to do a re-do. Sinatra refused and tore his music sheet in half. They had to find that "you" from somewhere else. No one knows where it was pulled from. Sinatra's attitude throughout the sessions of
Point of No Return was "let's get it over with". On most of the songs he only did one take. I do like the album and do still listen to it, but I cannot rate as highly as other Capitol albums like
Wee Small Hours, Swingin' Lovers, Swingin' Affair, Only the Lonely, Where Are You? The Capitol album that really suffers from Sinatra's don't give a damn attitude is
Come Swing With Me!. He is not in good voice on several of the songs but obviously didn't care to redo them later.
For more info about Sinatra's sessions, I suggest Sinatra! The Song is You by Will Friedwald and Sessions With Sinatra by Chuck Granata (Granata produced the complete set of Sinatra's Columbia recordings).