Payback

Payback

Get ready to root for the bad guy.

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Release Date

2/5/1999

Runtime

100 mins

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$90,000,000

Revenue

$161,626,121

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A stylish revenge thriller that follows a hardened criminal methodically dismantling everyone who wronged him with cold precision. It's a dark, propulsive watch that revels in moral ambiguity and violence as ugly necessity rather than spectacle.

Mood

AngryDefiantTenseBleak

Themes

RevengeBetrayalCrime

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Propulsive

Look

Stylized genreHigh-contrast

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violenceSexual content

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