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Payback
1999
· Movie
· 100 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2544
- IMDb #2181
- Google retired #1267
- Rotten Tomatoes #2940
- Metacritic #3274
- Letterboxd #2820
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3520
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2660
- Metacritic Critics #3799
- Metacritic Audience #2167
- Douban #1508
- Kinopoisk #932
- AlloCiné #2347
- Trakt #2387
Every rating
46–90
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 46, highest is Google on 90. Critics average 51, everyone else 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A ruthless, double-crossed criminal survives a shooting and is left for dead. After recovering, he cuts a violent path through the city's underworld to get revenge on the former partner who betrayed him and stole his share of a heist, demanding the $70,000 he is owed.
Details
- Director
- Brian Helgeland
- Writers
- Brian Helgeland, Terry Hayes
- Based on
- The Hunter by Donald E. Westlake
- Studio
- Icon Productions
- Released
- 5 February 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $90.0M
- Box office
- $161.6M
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