Payback: Straight Up
2006
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Payback: Straight Up
2006
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot summary
In Brian Helgeland's new director's cut of the film, Mel Gibson portrays Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street heist pump metal into him and take off with his $70,000 cut. Bad move, thugs. Because if you plan to double-cross Porter, you'd better make sure he's dead. Porter resurfaces, wading into a lurid urban underworld of syndicate kingpins, cops on the take, sniveling informants and deadly gangs. Porter wants his money back. And the way he sets out to get is assures that, from beginning to heart pounding end, Payback pays off big.
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Very very cool 2!
Payback essentially comes as 2 movies. Payback and Payback Straight Up.
So I'm going to write the 1 review for both movies.
They are both exceptional movies with Mel playing the anti-hero who just wants his money back.
Mel is tough and very uncompromising and its great fun to watch as he works his way through the underworld. This is the problem when the guy you pay to do your dirty work decides you are his next job!
The 2 films, one a directors cut, are incredibly different in feel, style, setting and even ending and both of them are well worth a watch!