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Based on Richard Stark's The Hunter , the same novel that provided narrative fodder for John Boorman's avant-garde noir Point Blank (1967), Payback has a syntax much more old-fashioned than its predecessor.
Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson), the protagonist of John Boorman's marvelous almost-comedy The General , is a gangster in the flamboyant movie tradition of movie mobsters who smile at the bullets that end their lives.
They aren't heroes but they have a bullying magnetism that Boorman calls "pagan."
Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.
But Boorman, pickled since youth in Arthurian legends, has become nearly unemployable thanks to the mythic resonances in such epic turkeys as Zardoz (1974), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Where the Heart Is (1990), and the worthy dud Beyond Rangoon (1995).