Sunday, November 05, 2023

Do not shit where you eat

Porter just wants his money back. Mel Gibson is at his absolute best in Brian Helgeland's Payback (1999). He portrays a street-wise tough at nails no-shit-giving crook seeking revenge of the wrong-doings against him. He is out to there to make things straight with heroin dealers, sado-masochists, crooked cops, mobsters and such! And it makes terribly entertaining crime noir.

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The gates of hell are open night and day

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