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Watch: Payback 1999 123movies, Full Movie Online – Porter is bad, but his neighbours are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie wife. He survives and returns, looking to recover his share from the robbery of an Asian crime gang. The money has passed into the hands of “the Outfit”, a slick gangster organisation that runs the city. He has to make his way through a world populated by heroin dealers, prostitutes, sado-masochists, gunmen and crooked cops, a place where torture is a way of life. His only friend is a former employer, a prostitute, and her loyalty is in question, given she now works for the Outfit. He makes good early progress, but then falls into the hands of Fairfax, the crime boss..
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.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 139,411
	56% | RottenTomatoes
	46/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1496 Popularity: 16.469 | TMDB

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 interpretation of Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Hunter.

Mel Gibson plays tough as nails thief Porter, who is double crossed, shot, and then left for dead by his wife Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger) and his partner in crime Val Resnick (Gregg Henry). We are then taken on a dark journey as Porter sets out to reclaim the $70.000 that he was shot and almost killed for. He wants no more, no less than what he is owed, and he literally will stop at nothing to achieve his goal. Including taking on the Chicago mob organisation known as The Outfit.

Payback is a mean and violent movie, it is unrelenting in its willingness to keep nastiness at the top of the story. The film is full of flawed and vile people, even Porter himself, the closest we have to a (anti) hero has badness coursing through his veins, he is a dislikable killer, the film is about exactly what the tag-line suggests, Get Ready To Root For The Bad Guy! As Porter trawls through this part of Chicago, he will come across bent coppers, drug pushers/addicts/runners, Asian gangsters, prostitutes, violence fetishists and the slimy chain of command of the Chicago mob. Nobody here is about to cheer you up.

The style of the film owes its being to classic film noir and the 1970s hard crime movies led by Dirty Harry and Death Wish. The makers had originally wanted to film it in black and white, but instead went for a de-saturation technique, a bleach by-pass process that really puts a grim grey and blue sheen on the visuals. The thumping score is tonally correct, while a good sound track also helps (always nice to see hear Voodoo Chile), and the use of voice over narration by Porter evokes the classic noir period and works a treat because it’s not over done.

The film strongly relies on Mel Gibson to bring menace and a measure of sympathy to the vengeful Porter, and it is with much credit that he manages to achieve both these things skilfully. He is backed by a strong support cast, Maria Bello admirable in her big shift from TV to film – Lucy Liu hilarious and stunningly sexy as a dominatrix and Gregg Henry is just wild. The Outfit chain of command features William Devane, James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson, all slick and welcome additions, even if they are all under used; though this is more by narrative necessity than film making decisions. Bill Duke, David Paymer and Jack Conley fill out the impressive roll call of scum-bags.

Violent, laconic and darkly comic as well, Payback is one of the best remakes around, a neo-noir essential in fact. 8.5/10

Footnote: Director Helgeland released his own Directors Cut in 2006. Unhappy with the original version, he changed some of the structure and visual style and made it shorter by ten minutes. It’s inferior to the 100 minute original cut in my opinion, losing much of the noir stylisations, but the last quarter is different and will (does) certainly appeal to others.

_**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 Coburn and other notables are on hand.

“Payback” (1999) is modern film noir with colors so muted it’s almost B&W (although I hear the Director’s Cut heightens them). It’s a remake of Coburn’s “Point Blank” (1967) and is ‘hip’ & entertaining in an amusing Tarantino kind of way, although it’s nowhere close to the greatness of “Pulp Fiction” (1994) or even “Jackie Brown” (1997). However, my wife liked it more than me and gave it 7/10, but then she’s a fan of Gibson.

The film runs 1 hour, 40 minutes, and was shot mainly in Chicago, along with Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles with studio stuff done in Burbank. There’s also an establishing shot of Manhattan.

GRADE: B-

A very fun 100 minutes!
“Payback” is one of those highly entertaining movies that make you forget your sorrows for a moment and entertains you right till the end. Difference with most other entertaining movies is that this movie also has a great story!

The movie is completely driven by the main character played by Mel Gibson. He plays a great and fun criminal who is an anti-hero and a total bad guy but still someone for who you can feel and cheer about. The movie also features lot’s of other great actors including James Coburn in a very fun role, Kris Kristofferson, Lucy Liu, Bill Duke and David Paymer. The movie is filled with great and entertaining characters.

The story is just great and has quite some nice twists and moments. The movie is comedy like but it also has a wonderful film-noir feeling with a typical atmosphere. There are also some nice action sequences in which Mel Gibson’s character might be featured a bit too much as an hero.

Nothing about this movie indicates that there were troubles on the set during filming with the director Brian Helgeland, on the contrary! Everything about the movie feels very fun like.

Solid entertainment!

8/10

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An appealingly gritty twist-filled thriller
Mel Gibson ditches his nice guy image and returns to his psychotic roots (as seen in the MAD MAX films) by playing a criminal with no redeeming features whatsoever. At least, that’s the idea. However Gibson’s charm and warmth still shine through with his character, so that you can’t help rooting for him even if he is the anti-hero. Gibson’s trademark smile and wisecracks are in full use here, even if he does employ them when killing people.

PAYBACK is an extremely distinctive movie, mainly due to the film noir-ish style of the cinematography. The setting is a dingy, grimy city, mostly filmed in shades of grey and brown, where lowlife seethes everywhere. Nobody in the film is a good character, and even the female love interest is a prostitute. This makes the film feel like a ’40s Philip Marlowe crime thriller, which it partly is, but the excessive violence make it something much, much more.

The plot, of revenge and double crossing is nothing new, but the twists and spins given to this tale are refreshing and interesting, mainly in the ways in which Gibson outwits the various characters opposing him. There’s delight to be had in the way in which Gibson blows up cars, buildings, sets up crooked policeman, and calmly, offhandedly blasts away the bad guys when they won’t give him the money. Added into the brew is a much needed level of black humour, my favourite type of comedy, so there’s a lot to smile and laugh at too.

The cast is top notch, partly the reason why the film is so great. Gibson spends most of the film either beating people up or getting beaten up, but his charisma still shines through (even if he is looking pretty old these days). The female lead is also very good, likable yet realistically human in her role, something lacking from many films these days where the female leads (such as the one in GODZILLA) are annoyingly bubble headed and picked for their looks only. The bad guys are mainly distinguished actors. William Devane is excellent as a laid-back crime boss, while James Coburn steals his scenes as Devane’s expensively-dressed, lavishly-attired globetrotting partner. Kris Kristofferson is also effective in his role as the head criminal, he’s used to playing villains by now and so he fits the role like a glove. The rest of the actors and actresses are also memorable in their roles, I can’t think of one person who stuck out like a sore thumb. Everyone surpasses themselves in this film.

The violence level is high, which led to some criticism, but there will always be critics no matter what. There are the expected shoot outs and explosions, all staged with panache and style, and some graphic torture scenes involving a hammer and Gibson’s toes (very reminiscent of the torture in MISERY). Other good moments involve Gibson ripping out a punk’s nose ring, shooting a car full of people from underneath, and of course outsmarting about a hundred and one bad guys. PAYBACK is a great film, one of the best blockbusters that I’ve seen in recent years, and can easily stand up to repeated viewing.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (Straight Up: the Director’s Cut)
Budget 90000000
Revenue 161626121
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Brian Helgeland
Writer Donald E. Westlake, Brian Helgeland, Terry Hayes
Actors Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Aaton 35-III, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 2,770 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Super 35 (common-top)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)