Payback

Porter (Mel Gibson) is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular, Gregg Henry). As they’re stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, no one is going to call the police. Everything goes smoothly until Porter’s wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger), shoots Porter in the back. After Val had shown Lynn a photo of Porter in the arms of another girl (Maria Bello), the two planned the double-cross together to pay off Val’s mob debts so he could return to “The Syndicate.” They didn’t plan well enough, though, because five months later Porter’s back, a complete sociopath who wants his $70,000. Brian Helgeland, the screenwriter for L.A. Confidential and Conspiracy Theory, makes his directing debut with this adaptation of the novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake writing under the pseudonym, Richard Stark. The same novel served as the basis for John Boorman’s Point Blank starring Lee Marvin., Tough action thriller in which a man is persuaded by an old friend to take part in a heist of laundered Triad drug money. But the friend and the man’s wife have carefully planned the whole caper in order to double-cross him, and leave him for dead. However, he survives and when he realises what they have done, he sets out to exact his revenge., Tough action thriller in which a man is persuaded by an old friend to take part in a $130,000 heist of laundered Triad drug money. But the friend and the man’s wife have carefully planned the whole caper in order to double-cross him, and leave him for dead. However, he survives and sets out to exact his revenge., Porter is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val. As they’re stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, no one is going to call the police. Everything goes smoothly until Porter’s wife, Lynn, shoots Porter in the back., Tough action thriller in which a man is persuaded by an old friend to take part in a $130,000 heist of laundered Triad drug money. But the friend and the man’s wife have carefully planned the whole caper in order to double-cross him, and leave him for dead. However, he survives and when he realises what they have done, he sets out to exact his revenge., Mel Gibson plays a sociopathic thief out for revenge after being double-crossed by his unfaithful wife and partner., Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and left to die. When he survives he plots revenge., Porter and Val are stealing laundered drug money from Chinese Triads. Porter is being double-crossed and things turn nasty., Lowly thug Porter is shot and left for dead by his wife and accomplice, who claim his share of a raid on an oriental gang. He survives and returns for his ‘payback’. In doing so he runs up against the syndicate bosses – not to mention crooked cops and avenging oriental gangsters., Mel Gibson plays it bad in this hard-hitting action thriller about a crook who sets out for revenge when his partner sets him up and leaves him for dead., Gibson stars in this explosive thriller as a small time criminal who after a $130,000 job is shot and left for dead. Half a year later he’s back and he wants revenge., A sociopathic thief is out for revenge after being double-crossed by his unfaithful wife and partner., In this high-octane remake of 1967’s “Point Blank,” a sociopathic thief is out for revenge after being double-crossed by his unfaithful wife and partner., Porter and Val carry off a successful heist, but then Val makes several mistakes: he steals Porter’s cut of the money, he steals Porter’s wife, and he tries to kill him. Now Porter is out for payback. He wants his cut and he is determined to get it, come what may.