Payback

(1999)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 2,080 votes

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller

Year: 1999

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Брайан Хелгеленд

Cast: Мел Гибсон, Грегг Генри, Мария Белло, Дэвид Пэймер, Билл Дьюк, Дебора Кара Ангер, Джон Гловер, Уильям Дивейн, Люси Лью, Крис Кристофферсон

Plot

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.

Porter is bad, but his neighbours are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie wife. He survives and returns, looking to recover his share from the robbery of an Asian crime gang. The money has passed into the hands of "the Outfit", a slick gangster organisation that runs the city. He has to make his way through a world populated by heroin dealers, prostitutes, sado-masochists, gunmen and crooked cops, a place where torture is a way of life. His only friend is a former employer, a prostitute, and her loyalty is in question, given she now works for the Outfit. He makes good early progress, but then falls into the hands of Bronson, the crime boss.