In a seedy basement, Porter lies severely wounded with two gunshot wounds in his back from a .357 Magnum Colt Python revolver. A surgeon removes the bullets and Porter spends several months healing. He then begins tracking down Val Resnick, his former partner, and Lynn, his ex-wife, both of whom betrayed Porter and left him for dead following a $140,000 heist from the Chinese Triads. After leaving Porter for dead, Val rejoined The Outfit, a powerful criminal organization, using $130,000 of the heist money to repay an outstanding debt. Porter is intent on reclaiming his $70,000 cut.
Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film producer and director. He is most known for writing the screenplays for L.A. Confidential (for which he received an Academy Award), Mystic River, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.
Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Norwegian-born parents Karin and Thomas.His surname is Norwegian, named after a landscape in Northern Norway. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, he received his undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
In 1998, Helgeland won both an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (for L.A. Confidential) and a Razzie (for The Postman) in the same year. Only one person had achieved the dubious feat before (Alan Menken in 1993), and only one other (Sandra Bullock in 2010) has achieved it since. He accepted the Razzie and became only the fourth person in its history to be personally presented with the… read more
Una buena película de cine negro (me refiero al Director's Cut).Tiene momentos brutales y violentos, impensables en la mayoría del cine hollywoodense más reciente (la golpiza que Porter le da a su esposa, por poner un ejemplo) Casi todos los personajes son inescrupulosos e irredimibles. Me hizo falta más humor negro y el final me resultó flojo y vulgar (esos breves flash-backs en blanco y negro). Igual la recomiendo.
Silly fun. Coburn's Fairfax breaths life into the last fifteen minutes of this one. And I am fairly certain that if Ian Zering and Gary Busey were to somehow conceive a child together it would be Gregg Henry...whose character Val Resnick is perfectly slimey.