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Payback (1999)

I've watched two other movies recently that both had this problem of being a little too cartoonish and serious at the same time, like pick a lane - torture and murder don't mix so well with slapstick and superhuman strength - or maybe they do, if the tone is right, and Payback just has a bit of a tone problem, but I will say to conclude this very long short review that seeing early Mel Gibson, before he went nuts, you really remember why he was such a star.

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