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Payback

  • 7.1 /10

  • 1935

  • 56%

Plot

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.

Cast

Mel Gibson as Porter
Mel Gibson

as Porter

Gregg Henry as Val Resnick
Gregg Henry

as Val Resnick

Maria Bello as Rosie
Maria Bello

as Rosie

David Paymer as Arthur Stegman
David Paymer

as Arthur Stegman

Bill Duke as Det. Hicks
Bill Duke

as Det. Hicks

Deborah Kara Unger as Mrs. Lynn Porter
Deborah Kara Unger

as Mrs. Lynn Porter

John Glover as Phil
John Glover

as Phil

William Devane as Carter
William Devane

as Carter

Lucy Liu as Pearl
Lucy Liu

as Pearl

Kris Kristofferson as Bronson
Kris Kristofferson

as Bronson

Movie Facts

Rated

  • R

Status

  • Released

Release Date

  • February 5, 1999

Production Companies

  • Icon Productions

Production Countries

  • United States of America

Spoken Language

  • English

Budget

  • $90,000,000.00

Revenue

  • $161,626,121.00

Runtime

  • 1.67 hrs

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Reviews

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 interpret…

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.

_**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 Cob…