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Payback (1999)

R 02/05/1999 Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller 1h 40m
68%
User
Score
7.1/10
56%
46/100

Get ready to root for the bad guy.

Overview

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

Brian Helgeland

Screenplay

Terry Hayes

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

Porter

Gregg Henry

Gregg Henry

Val Resnick

Maria Bello

Maria Bello

Rosie

David Paymer

David Paymer

Arthur Stegman

Bill Duke

Bill Duke

Det. Hicks

Deborah Kara Unger

Deborah Kara Unger

Mrs. Lynn Porter

John Glover

John Glover

Phil

William Devane

William Devane

Carter

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu

Pearl

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Media

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on September 26, 2014

Indestructible Gibson in grim and gritty telling of The Hunter.

This is not an out and out remake of John Boorman's 1967 offering Point Blank, the structure is different from the 67 film, and where Point Blank is a dark psychological thriller that is rightly regarded as being towards the top of the neo-noir tree, this Brian Helgeland directed film really should be seen as a different interpretation of Donald E. Westlake's novel The Hunter.

Mel Gibson plays tough as nails thief Porter, who is double crossed, shot, and then left for dead by his wife Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger) and his partner in crime Val Resnick (Gregg Henry). We are then taken on a dark journey as Porter sets out to reclaim the $70.000 that he was shot and almost killed for. He wants no more, no less than what he is ow...

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A review by tmdb15435519

Written on May 11, 2021

An underrated crime noir that somehow snuck it's way into the overcrowded 90s. With phrases like, "expected horizontal refreshment", you know this is going to be good....

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A review by Wuchak

Written on June 27, 2021

_**Amusing neo-noir in Chicago with Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry and Maria Bello**_

After a heist with an Asian gang, a no-nonsense man (Mel Gibson) is left for dead by his accomplices (Gregg Henry & Deborah Kara Unger) in the underbelly of the Big City, but he unexpectedly recovers and wants vengeance, not to mention his $70,000. Maria Bello, Lucy Liu, William Devane, Kris Kristofferson, James Coburn and other notables are on hand.

"Payback" (1999) is modern film noir with colors so muted it’s almost B&W (although I hear the Director’s Cut heightens them). It’s a remake of Coburn’s “Point Blank” (1967) and is ‘hip’ & entertaining in an amusing Tarantino kind of way, although it’s nowhere close to the greatness of “Pulp Fiction” (1994) or even “Jackie Brown” (199...

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