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title: "Payback [Blu-ray] [1999] [Region Free]"
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# Payback [Blu-ray] [1999] [Region Free]

**Brand:** mel gibsonmaria bellobrian helgeland
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- **What is this?** Payback [Blu-ray] [1999] [Region Free] by mel gibsonmaria bellobrian helgeland
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## Description

Porter (Mel Gibson) carries out a $140,000 heist with his partner Val Resnick (Gregg Henry) and wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger), only for them to double-cross him, shooting Porter and leaving him for dead. Vowing revenge, a recovered Porter sets off in pursuit, but in so doing attracts the attention of corrupt cops Hicks (Bill Duke) and Leary (Jack Conley), who want the money for themselves. Based on 'The Hunter', the same novel that inspired 'Point Blank' and 'The Outfit'.

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Action & Adventure
- **Format:** PAL
- **Contributor:** Bill Duke, Brian Helgeland, David Paymer, Deborah Kara Unger, Gregg Henry, James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Maria Bello, Mel Gibson, William Devane
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 1 hour and 41 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

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    Warners' Blu-ray includes both a Director's Cut that draws some real blood for once - plus the original theatrical cut as well
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2011*

Remaking a classic is never a good idea at the best of times, but when Brian Helgeland's remake of Point Blank ended up being shelved, heavily re-edited, rewritten (by Terry Hayes) and reshot by another director (production designer John Myhre) to make it more `accessible' to an audience after committing the triple sins of having a hero who doesn't get the money and doesn't get the girl and - worst of all - having a character kill the dog, it must have seemed like an out and out suicidal one. So much of the film's last third was dumped that half the footage in the film's trailer (and even its poster image) were nowhere to be found in the finished film itself by the time it made it to the theatres. Somehow the version of Payback that did get released turned out to be both surprisingly good and more surprisingly commercially successful, but now that, eight years later, Helgeland's finally had the chance to restore his version for DVD, the only response to the theatrical version's tagline `No more Mr Nice Guy' is "Oh yeah?"This time Mel Gibson's Porter doesn't have a voice over to excuse his actions, and they're not diluted by focus groups either. So he steals from a homeless guy? So what, it's not as if the guy is faking a disability in this cut, he just wants his money. So he asks a barman for information by breaking his hand? So what, he doesn't have time for subtlety, he just wants his money. So his wife O.D.s after he beats her up? So what, she shot him anyway, he just wants his money. So he kills a handcuffed heavy after disarming him? So what, he didn't like the guy, he just wants his money. In fact, Porter doesn't care what happens to anybody as long as he gets his money. The only thing that makes him the hero is that the guy who has his money is even worse than he is.Unlike most Director's Cuts, this really is a very different version of the film: while the first hour has more or less the same structure as the theatrical version, the last third is a significant departure. Running some ten minutes less than the theatrical version, there's no convoluted kidnapping subplot, no Kris Kristofferson character in this version, only a couple of shots of prominently-billed John Glover at the end, though sadly no Angie Dickinson either: although originally providing a link with John Boorman's film as the voice of the syndicate boss in Helgeland's first cut, for some reason she's here replaced by Sally Kellerman on speakerphone. Instead we get a much better realized and rather more organic finale at a transit station that brings the film to a more convincing conclusion and is more attuned to the character's strengths and weaknesses than the kind of plot contrivances that gave the theatrical version its more explosive resolution. Oh yes, and everything doesn't look blue anymore.There are differences from the first cut that Helgeland submitted that was floating around as a bootleg for years - the fire truck diversion to get into the outfit hotel and the infamous elevator scene where Porter blinds a henchman are missing, while this time round the money doesn't end up in the hands of a homeless guy - but while it's a shame these aren't included on the DVD, it's a leaner, meaner movie, playing it down and dirty (none of Boorman's "Is he really dead?" ambiguity here) and on its own terms. Is it a great film or a lost masterpiece? No, just a good movie with a heart of darkness underneath the studio sheen, but that's good enough for me.Warner's UK Blu-ray is an especially goof package good package. While Paramount's US Blu-ray offers the director's cut with a three-part documentary on the making and unmaking of the film (with Mel Gibson surprisingly prominent among the new interviews) and an interview with author Donald E. Westlake that run longer than the main feature itself, as well as an audio commentary by Helgeland, Warners have included all that and the reworked 1999 theatrical version and the cast interviews that were included on the DVD release of that as well.

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    Fantastic
  

*by J***H on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 January 2023*

Love this movie with Mel Gibson. When I seen it was on blu/ray this for me was a must.

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    Better in bluray
  

*by I***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2022*

Great film, clean and sharp in bluray. Remake of the excellent Point Blank with Lee Marvin. Don't know if there'll be a 4k transfer but don't think there's any point for me as it's shot with grey filter that restricts the colours.

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