Review of Payback

Payback (I) (1999)
8/10
Mel Gibson is HARD!
28 April 2002
This is a movie much like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs with bad guys in the roles, bad guys with no marks of goodness or sympathy in them. This movie feels a bit more like film noir with it's dark and moody tune.

Mel Gibson is Hard. That is the basic plot. He's been robbed and shot by his former wife and best friend and was left for dead. Well, he survived two bullets in the back and he's back, p***ed like a mad killerdog.

Things never goes as you belive it should. Bad guys get nicked off at wrong occasions and small characters survives longer than most of the stars. Lucy Liu is a hoot as a sadist who in a very funny scene beats up her boyfriend FOR Mel Gibson. And the torturescene at the end is one of the creepiest scenes I have ever witnessed. True Pain.

But the ending is cool just as the movie and the grade stop's at a welldeserved 8.
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