Pay Back (2013)
Two worlds collide when a Triad leader and a taxi driver form an unlikely partnership. Now, they need to work together in order to survive.
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All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
I watched this as I am aware some martial arts films do not get a good rating if badly subbed or dubbed, I like this genre of film, it was borderline so I thought what the hell....For the most part it was a bland, reasonably acted film put together with little thought. At points there was genuine tension so I was close to rating it a 6. The rather bizarre and poorly stylised sex(ish)scenes knocked it down to a 5 but still a bearable effort until the "heavy" storyline about a hubby looking for revenge peaked.I have watched old boy and can cope with some damn weird sh*t but this took the biscuit, I became aware that one of the main protagonists had a DVD of the baddie raping and torturing a girl, what I did not realise at first was that it was the other protagonists wife (he was out for revenge.) OK if a bit misogynistic so far but when we got to join her husband on the couch as he watched her poorly dramatised rape and mutilation I gave up.I appreciate a little "protect the chicks" is standard fare in a lot of action flicks but this moved a bit too close to a sick and unpleasant voyeurism, sadly I had watched most of this film before this drab yet disturbing (and not in a good way) scene arrived and I lost any will to watch it further.If after reading this you find you have few/no friends and are looking to improve the quality of sad messed up deviant you already are this film is waiting for you.