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Payback (1999)
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They stole his money, turned his woman against him, and left him for dead. Now tough-guy poster child Porter (the appropriately world-weary Mel Gibson) is back, bad to the bone, and a mite ticked off at the Organization that done him wrong. Mucho macho carnage ensues. It took some major guts for first-time director (and Oscar winner for the script of L.A. Confidential) Brian Helgeland to take a shot at adapting Donald Westlake's pseudonymous, legendarily gritty novel The Hunter for the screen (especially considering that director John Boorman and irresistible force Lee Marvin had already produced a fairly definitive...
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What can I say. This movie is the one to watch when you are angry with
someone. Through Mel Gibson, you can experience your anger and
frustration and get that vicarious revenge.
Gibson's character just wanted what was due; nothing more or less. He
methodically went up the line to get it. He was clever and ruthless. In
the...
(complete Payback review by B Movie Ben)
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(3/12/2007)