Payback (1999)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 100m
Director: Brian Helgeland
Cast: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, Lucy Liu, William Devane
Synopsis:
A thief steals from the Triads so that his accomplice can repay a debt to the Organisation, but he is double-crossed and left for dead. He returns five months later wanting his $70,000, and doesn't mind who he has to kill to get it.
Review:
Violent remake of Boorman's Point Blank, with Gibson on Mad Max form, prepared to sacrifice two toes so that the hoods will believe him when he lies to them. Helgeland shoots it in gun metal blue, which is downbeat enough, but the tone is uneven and too many story turns depend on coincidence or improbability. A better script might have lent it more style; as it is, one has to settle for James Coburn.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 100m
Director: Brian Helgeland
Cast: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, Lucy Liu, William Devane
Synopsis:
A thief steals from the Triads so that his accomplice can repay a debt to the Organisation, but he is double-crossed and left for dead. He returns five months later wanting his $70,000, and doesn't mind who he has to kill to get it.
Review:
Violent remake of Boorman's Point Blank, with Gibson on Mad Max form, prepared to sacrifice two toes so that the hoods will believe him when he lies to them. Helgeland shoots it in gun metal blue, which is downbeat enough, but the tone is uneven and too many story turns depend on coincidence or improbability. A better script might have lent it more style; as it is, one has to settle for James Coburn.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 100m
Director: Brian Helgeland
Cast: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, Lucy Liu, William Devane
Synopsis:
A thief steals from the Triads so that his accomplice can repay a debt to the Organisation, but he is double-crossed and left for dead. He returns five months later wanting his $70,000, and doesn't mind who he has to kill to get it.
Review:
Violent remake of Boorman's Point Blank, with Gibson on Mad Max form, prepared to sacrifice two toes so that the hoods will believe him when he lies to them. Helgeland shoots it in gun metal blue, which is downbeat enough, but the tone is uneven and too many story turns depend on coincidence or improbability. A better script might have lent it more style; as it is, one has to settle for James Coburn.