Brand new factory sealed vhs tape of the Special Edition which includes on-the-set cast interviews like a dvd would. The movie is no longer being manufactured in any format. This pop-n-go retro video has no fussy menus to contend with. The full screen picture is perfect for old school tube TVs as the image will fill your square frame. The uncompressed analog audio is also superior to its digital counterpart with a more robust sound. "Not many people know what there life's worth", the hero of PAYBACK tells us right at the begining. "I do. Seventy grand. That's what they took from me. And that's what I'm gonna get back." If you absorb that statement and take a good look at the title, you'll have a good idea of what the movie's about. Mel Gibson portrays Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street heist pump metal into him and take off with his $70,000 cut. Gibson is essentialy an action comedian, who enters into violence with a bemused detachment. He has a whimsical charm, a way of standing outside material like this and grinning at it. This, I suppose, is what makes us root for him even though he is a bad guy. There are also action gags involving severed gas lines on a car, a trick telephone, blackmail by cell phone, kidnapping, and a scene in which Porter come closer than anyone since James Bond to being killed crotch first. The film also contains a hooker with a heart of gold (Maria Bello), a two-timing dame (Deborah Kara Unger), a concise cop (Bill Duke), a big mobster (Kris Kristofferson), and an even bigger one (James Coburn).