Payback - Straight Up - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray]

Sep 25, 2010 11:38:34

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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 ,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.

Payback - Straight Up - The Director's Cut [Blu-ray] Reviews By Customers

Strangely enough it is a gangster film full of faithlessness and hypocrisy, hatred and greed and yet the good guys turn out to be a gangster and a prostitute. A hold up turns too small for one of the two gangsters who wants to get rid of the other and uses this other's girlfriend to do the bad work in his own back. But in this world there is always a comeback and then a payback and the payback is always proportional to the distance to catch up on the comeback journey, and when it is near death that was the starting point of this comeback you can be sure the payback will implicate a lot of money and a lot of metal. And it does and it is not that easy to go to the top of the drug dealing business, and that sure is not easy and there are many hurdles. We wonder why he got down in front of the last one, or is it a way to really trap the boss. But he is also a very creative hit man in his come back and he pays back a lot with the metal, explosive and guns of those he shot down or he wants to bring down. He is flexible, adaptable, opportunistic and his principle is not to hit higher than the top but to hit the top just to get his due and he gets it and he does not have to share in the end. That's what is good in this gangster film. The gangster really gets our hearts in his hands because he is just asking for justice from his fellow gangsters who don't seem to have any sense of justice, nor the few cops he comes across either. New York always looks good under this light with whizzing bullets in the sky.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

'The So called Director's cut" - J. Aravindhan -
I saw this movie in the theater;loved it and bought the dvd when it was released.And I thought Porter hitting the Taxi Stand Clerk with a coffee mug was for some reason cut from the dvd(I remember this scene from the cinema or was I imagining the Clerk getting mugged?)
So when they released the 'Director's Cut' I rushed out and bought it.What a waste of money.I watch the original dvd every now and then but the director's cut only once so far and that will be it.It has been chopped and changed so much that it's not worth the effort.
I hope they release the Original in BLU RAY soon.
Can anyone shed some light on the taxi stand scene? Thanks

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PAYBACK with mel Gibson - NEAL A REUST -
This movie was released in theaters in 1999. It is violent, has no good guys and has little social redeaming value. I loved it. It is a great guy movie.

However the same title was re-released on DVD as a Directors Cut in 2006. The Directors Cut is very disappointing and not half as entertaining as the Theatrical Release. Some of the best action is deleted and Kris Kristophersons role is totally eliminated.

My recommendation is buy/rent the 1999 release. Skip the Directors Cut unless you just want to compare the two of them.

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Great movie and picture quality - BruceL - Portland, OR USA
I like this movie very much, and from what other reviewers said I am
glad I purchased this instead of the director's/extended cut. I
liked the character's commentary.
The picture quality is excellent.

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