I
watched the Mel Gibson movie Payback. I hadn't seen this in a while,
like, the early 2000's and it came out in 1999. Its a pretty basic
premise about a guy named Porter that gets double-crossed by his
partner in crime and his wife. He gets shot in the back twice but
ends up surviving and coming back for revenge. This movie was violent
as hell and had some great villains.
Gregg Henry who plays his dirty
ass former partner plays the jerk pretty well and I wish I could have
seen a movie where the two of them do jobs together before the
betrayal.
There seems to be a lot of back story that feels missing
within the relationships but its still a good movie. Yeah, I'm fully
aware of Gibson's reputation now but it doesn't take from the fact
that he made some cool ass movies back in the day. I also managed to
watch another movie I hadn't seen in a minute.
Leon:
The Professional is still one of the best movies ever. This came out
in 1994 when Natalie Portman was only 12 years old. Jean Reno plays
Leon who is a hitman. He is pretty quiet and minds his own business
when he isn't killing fools Batman style moving trough the shadows.
Portman plays Mathilda who is a smart ass cursing, smoking little
girl living with her shitty father who ends up killed by Gary Oldman
and his men. Whenever Oldman is on screen he is terrifying. He pops
these pills, cracks his neck, and bad things happen.
Portman's
performance is so good that even though she is huge now as a star I
imagined she would be even bigger. Leon is such an innocent seeming
guy in this with Mathilda seeming like the adult between the two of
them. Over 20 years later this is still one of my favorite movies. Te
acting, directing, story, and music all came together perfectly.
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