Payback (Blu-ray)
No More Mr. Nice Guy.
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Payback (Director's Cut)
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Blu-ray Details
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 26, 2017
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello & David Paymer | |
Performer: | Kris Kristofferson, William Devane, Bill Duke, Deborah Kara Unger, Jack Conley, Lucy Liu & John Glover | |
Directed by | Brian Helgeland | |
Edited by | Kevin Stitt | |
Screenplay by | Brian Helgeland & Terry Hayes | |
Composition by | Chris Boardman | |
Art Direction by | Troy Sizemore | |
Produced by | Bruce Davey | |
Director of Photography: | Ericson Core | |
Executive Production by | Stephen McEveety |
Entertainment Reviews:
This is the seediest studio picture I've seen since TO LIVE OR DIE IN LA. Even the theater floor feels stickier while watching this thing unfold.
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Ain't It Cool News
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The movie squanders its energy on morbid levels of grisly, kinky violence, much of it sexual.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Payback has its moments and its thrills, but the payoff just isn't there.
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Jam! Movies
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Payback is just Die Hard: Without a Soul.
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Film Threat
Rating: 4/4 --
A higher class of thriller.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 1/5 --
Its smirking sense of humor and generic self-consciousness suggest that Payback would like to think of itself as a hip descendant of Pulp Fiction. But the movie is utterly devoid of narrative ingenuity and visual and dramatic flair.
New York Times
Demonstrates why Mel Gibson is a movie star: He can take mediocre material and through sheer willpower -- not to mention oodles of charm -- make it work.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Product Description:
Mel Gibson is Porter, a ruthless criminal, who is gunned down by his wife and friend after they rob an Asian gang. When Porter survives the attack, he makes it his mission to exact revenge on his friend, who has used the robbery money to buy his way into a powerful syndicate. Added to the mix are crooked police officers, members of the syndicate, and the Asian gang, who are out for a bit of revenge themselves. Based on the series of novels by Donald E. Westlake, which were translated to the screen previously in John Boorman's POINT BLANK (1967).