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...plot may seem familiar. In 1999 it was remade into Brian Helgeland??s sadomasochistic anger-porn “Payback,” starring Mel Gibson. The differences are astonishing...
...moderate audience’s sympathies don’t always stay with the vengeance seeker. Witness Man screenwriter Brian Helgeland??s directorial debut, Payback, which quickly degenerated into brutality for what seemed to be brutality’s own sake. The difference is in the humanity; Payback was a perfect fit for star Mel Gibson, the master of sadomasochistic cinema, but Scott wants us to care...
...need to connect to the audience that makes Man a more successful tragedy than Helgeland??s Mystic River script. Scott’s actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that Sean Penn did not achieve in that film’s overwrought dinner-theater performance. This decision gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic never achieved. Can you imagine what Christopher Walken would have been in Eastwood’s hands? Here, he underplays his role. Let me repeat that: Walken underplays a role. The last...
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