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Payback
1999 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Brian Helgeland
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.
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No mention of Payback yet - great movie.
Payback (1999, Mel Gibson) trailer contains a scene not in theatrical release. The main poster for the movie shows Mel Gibson in a scene which never made it to theatrical release either.
Usually I avoid trailers. It's marketing, spoilers, trying to sell you the movie. For me, they might be clever, but that's all. The Payback trailer is clever because it has no dialog... https://youtu.be/ji6aaZRACew
Drama behind the scenes on Payback saw the director fired by the studio and replaced, a completely new ending written and shot.
Normally when studios mess with the writing, the film suffers, but not in this case. The theatrical release of Payback is better than the "director's cut" released on video a few years later. The director's cut has a boring ending, just generic gun fights and a mess of scenes. The theatrical release has a good twist, more substance and style.