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4.0 out of 5 stars Typical Mel ruthless to the bone, Oct 15 2010

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bernie "webviator" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Porter (Mel Gibson) common criminal is just doing his thing and rather flamboyantly. He pilfers from the bob and his cut is $70,000. He is double-crossed by his buddy and wife as he was left for dead. Well Porter may be a common criminal but he does have a sense of Justus and does whatever it takes to recover his $70,000. In the process, he is roughed up a few times and the perpetrators find themselves skillfully dispatched. The questions are will he get his money back before there is no one left to give it to him.

Yep it is formula; yep Mel has a tendency for over acting. We get the standard surprises. Lots of action.

Be sure to check the details out on the different packaging as there are variations on the story.

Hamlet ~ Mel Gibson

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3.0 out of 5 stars Payback Straight up, Oct 6 2009

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Antonio Di Donato - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Payback [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I gave this movie 3 stars because it offers almost a complete different movie than the theatre version. I believe this one to be better only because the action is more intense. Picture wise it is no different, no inovations, simply different parts, which were not used in the theatre version, make up this version. I prefered the theatres ending rather than this one. Again I must say, the French audio track was not present, and that in itself causes much shagrin for people who don't speak English. Antonio DI Donato

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mel Gibson's Payback, April 23 2004

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Vagabond77 (Tennessee, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Payback (Widescreen) (DVD)

"Payback" is a funny dark comedy and crime thriller at the same time. Mel Gibson plays Porter, a theif who has sworn vengence against his best friend (Gregg Henry) and his wife (Deborah Unger) for ripping off his share of heist money and leaving him for dead. He returns, enlists the aid of a hooker friend, and takes on the entire New York mob (called the Outfit). All of the men in the movie are bad guys, it's just that some are worst guys. Mel Gibson has never been funnier, even though he never cracks a smile through the whole movie. His delivery is dead pan, and that makes it so much funnier. Gibson's Porter (there is no first name) is tough. Porter has a kind of street smart that allows him to survive, much like a fox in the woods, always having the bad guys fall into their own traps. Lucy Liu is also pretty good as an extream S&M dominatrix. The three main bad guys are old hands at being bad. Kris Kristofferson is the head of the Outfit, Bronson. James Coburn is funny as the older man, Fairfax. And William Devane as Carter, a slimy day supervisor is funny at how casual he orders rather grisly murders. The violence is gruesome (though not exactly "Friday the 13th" level), but it is done in a "Three Stoges" extreamity that's kind of comic (although the torture scene at the end is not at all funny, I'll never look at Three Little Pigs the same way). I loved this movie, it has action, comedy, and a melodramatic scene that is out of this world. "Payback" is based on Richard Stark's "The Hunter", the first Parker novel. The movie has the correct feel that jibes with the book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars phrase on cover says it all.
"Get ready to root for the bad guy." I've been a Gibson fan for years. From the Lethal Weapon series, to Braveheart, to Hamlet. Read more

Published on April 18 2004 by Randall Banks

5.0 out of 5 stars PAYBACKS ARE HELL MEL
Having Mel Gibson play such a lowdown creature as Porter is original enough in its own right. The fact that he plays him so well and that we root for him only goes to show the... Read more

Published on April 6 2004 by Michael Butts