Payback

Review: Payback: Straight Up (Brian Helgeland, 2006)

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night panicked that people might not realize this movie has a director’s cut, which happens to be way better than the original. I’ll put it this way, when I first saw the movie Payback (1999) I hated it, but years later, when I saw the director’s cut, it became one of my favorite movies. I’m not kidding when I say the 2006 version is a 100% completely different movie as far as taste is concerned.

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