FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Payback
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer55%as of 2021-10-05
- Rotten Tomatoes average5.9/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic46/100as of 2024-01-27
What it is
Payback is a 1999 American neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by Brian Helgeland in his directorial debut, and starring Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Lucy Liu, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson. It is based on the novel The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake using the pseudonym Richard Stark, which had earlier been adapted into the 1967 film Point Blank.
At a glance
- Genres
- Crime / Action / Thriller / Drama
- Original language
- English
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