[MarkL]

I will see “Parker” this weekend and will post a review.

When I saw the trailer on TV, my first thought was that this was a remake of "Payback" with Mel Gibson and Mariaa Bello. It was a good, fun, "rootin' for the bad-guy" sort of movie," movie... Gibson's character, "Porter," was a serious bad guy, but he had been done wrong by other "bad guys," and just wanted to set things right. Of course, that took a lot of killing...

I'd like to hear how "Parker" is, and if you haven't seen it, afterwards be sure to check out "Payback."

Mark

[Perdogg]

It is from the same series written by Richard Stark.

[Boogieman]

“a remake of “Payback””

I haven’t seen the previews for this new film, but I thought you might like to know that Payback was itself a remake of Point Blank, so the new film could be based on that one instead.

[RansomOttawa]

When I saw the trailer on TV, my first thought was that this was a remake of "Payback" with Mel Gibson and Mariaa Bello.

No surprise. Porter and Parker are the same character - they're both adapted from two different Donald Westlake novels.