Payback (1999)

	Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
	Robert Horton - Film.com
	Jeff Vice - Deseret News
	James Berardinelli - ReelViews
	Owen Gleiberman - EW
	Mike Clark - USA Today
	Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
	Susan Stark - Detroit News
	Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
	Kenneth Turan - LA Times
	Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
	Jack Mathews - Newsday
	Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
	Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
	Stephen Hunter - Washington Post

“There is much cleverness and ingenuity in Payback”

- Roger Ebert

“The film could be a trip, a kick, a hoot. But it’s a trap, a quirk, a snootful. Watching it is like riding a roller coaster through a meat grinder”

- Stephen Hunter

Payback

Mel Gibson goes on a revenge spree against his wife (Deborah Kara Unger) and crime partner (Gregg Henry) after they double-cross him and leave him for dead. Maria Bello, David Paymer, Lucy Alexis Liu, William Devane, James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Duke. Director: Brian Helgeland (1999, R)

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