A betrayed criminal’s brutal quest for vengeance unfolds with gritty, darkly comic suspense.
Pulpy and suspenseful. A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, Kanopy (free), Hoopla (free), The Roku Channel (free), Pluto TV (free) and 3 more.
No surprises for an R: moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence.
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With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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