Rent Payback (1999)
3.5 of 5 from 126 ratings
1h 37min
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- Synopsis:
The pay off is excitement when Mel Gibson portrays hard-boiled Porter in 'Payback', a fast, frequently funny and ecstatically twisted blend of action and noir atmosphere co-written and directed by Brian Helgeland, Academy Award winner for 'LA Confidential'. Porter makes his living outside the law. So when his partners in a heist rip off his $70,000 share and leave him for dead, there's only one way for Porter to settle things: his way. And that sends him on a vendetta that will have a lot of lowlifes gaping at the talking end of Porter's fat revolver. Crooked cops. Street gangs. Spineless flyspecks. Crime bosses. Anyone and everyone standing between Porter and his 70 grand are going to know he's back... with a vengeance. - Actors:
- Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, David Paymer, Bill Duke, Deborah Kara Unger, John Glover, William Devane, Lucy Liu, Jack Conley, Kris Kristofferson, Mark Alfa, Kwame Amoaku, Justin Ashforth, Len Bajenski, Kate Buddeke, Price Carson, Roddy Chiong, Art Cohan, Andrew Cooper
- Directors:
- Brian Helgeland
- Writers:
- Donald E. Westlake, Brian Helgeland
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Top 10 Films of 1999
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/09/2009
- Run Time:
- 97 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, German, German Hard of Hearing, Spanish, Swedish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Director's Cut Commentary by Writer/Director Brian Helgeland
- Interviews with Mel Gibson, Maria Bella. Lucy Liu and James Coburn
- Paybacks Are a Bitch: On Location in Chicago
- Paybacks Are a Bitch: On Set in Los Angeles
- Same Story, Different Movie: Creating Payback: The Director’s Cut
- The Hunter: A Conversation with Author Donald E. Westlake
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Reviews (1) of Payback
Anti-hero - Payback review by JD
Despite his best attempts to portray an unpleasant, unlikeable, bad guy he fails. I am sure Michael Palin would have been the same. They are incapable of playing the bad guy. The plot generally is pretty unbelievable and there is too much of the super hero stuff which is neither awesome nor amusing. Surprisingly average for a Gibson film.
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