Payback

Get ready to root for the bad guy.

6.819991h 40m

Released

Action

Drama

Crime

Thriller

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.

StatusReleased

Release Date1999-02-05

Runtime1h 40m

LanguagesEnglish

CountriesUnited States of America

Budget$90,000,000

Revenue$161,626,121

Keywords

based on novel or book

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Cast & Crew

Mel Gibson

as Porter

Gregg Henry

as Val Resnick

Maria Bello

as Rosie

David Paymer

as Arthur Stegman

Bill Duke

as Det. Hicks

Deborah Kara Unger

as Mrs. Lynn Porter

John Glover

as Phil

William Devane

as Carter

Lucy Liu

as Pearl

Kris Kristofferson

as Bronson

Reviews

John Chard

Sep 25, 2014

8.5/10

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 fi…

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tmdb15435519

May 11, 2021

8/10

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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