Mr. Payback: An Interactive Movie is a 1995 American comedic

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 short film written by Bob Gale

Bob Gale

Michael Robert "Bob" Gale is an American screenwriter who co-wrote the science fiction film Back to the Future with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and the screenplays for the film's two sequels. Gale also co-produced all three films....

 and directed by both Bob Gale and Charles Croughwell. The film is around 20 to 30 minutes long, and requires the audience of a screening to vote for various directions the story will take using a joystick attached to the arm of their seats, which is why the film is labeled as "interactive

Interactive video

The term interactive video usually refers to a technique used to blend interaction and linear film or video.-Interactive video on broadband:Since 2005, interactive video has increased online as the result a number of factors including:...

." The film stars an android (Billy Warlock

Billy Warlock

Billy Warlock is an American actor best known for playing Eddie Kramer, a lifeguard on the original three seasons of Baywatch and in the reunion movie in 2003, as well as for numerous daytime roles, most notably Frankie Brady on Days of our Lives and A.J...

) who, in a number of possible storylines, takes action by humiliating or attacking people who deserve it.

Cast

• Billy Warlock
  Billy Warlock
  Billy Warlock is an American actor best known for playing Eddie Kramer, a lifeguard on the original three seasons of Baywatch and in the reunion movie in 2003, as well as for numerous daytime roles, most notably Frankie Brady on Days of our Lives and A.J...
  
  --Payton Bach (Mr. Payback)
• Holly Fields—Gwen
• Bruce McGill
  Bruce McGill
  Bruce Travis McGill is an American actor who has an extensive list of credits in film and television. He is perhaps best known for his role as Jack Dalton on the television series MacGyver and as Daniel Simpson "D-Day" Day in National Lampoon's Animal House.-Early life:McGill was born in San...
  
  --James Konklin
• Christopher Lloyd
  Christopher Lloyd
  Christopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He is best known for playing Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He played Reverend Jim Ignatowski in the television series Taxi and more...
  
  --Ed Jarvis
• Leslie Easterbrook
  Leslie Easterbrook
  -Early life:Easterbrook was born in Los Angeles and adopted by a family in rural Nebraska, where she was raised. Her father later earned a Ph.D and became a voice/trumpet professor at University of Nebraska at Kearney...
  
  --Diane Wyatt
• David Correia--Raoul Alvarez
• Victor Love--Lloyd Braxton
• Carol-Ann Plante--Cara Cook
• Michael Talbott
  Michael Talbott
  Michael Talbott is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his co-starring role as Det. Stanley Switek in the 1980s series Miami Vice....
  
  --Car Jerk
• Brendan Ford
  Brendan Ford
  Brendan Ford is an actor who has appeared in an episode of the science fiction show Babylon 5, among other shows.-External links:...
  
  --Park Vandal
• Gilbert Rosales--Bike Thief
• Eddie Deezen
  Eddie Deezen
  Eddie Deezen is an American character actor, voice actor and comedian, best known for his bit parts as nerd characters in 1970s and 1980s films such as Grease, Grease 2, Midnight Madness, 1941 and WarGames, as well as for larger roles in a number of independent cult films, including Surf II: The...
  
   - Phil the Guard
• Robby Sutton--Moe
• Sasha Jenson
  Sasha Jenson
  Sasha Jenson is an American film and television actor known for his role in the 1993 hit film Dazed and Confused. He is also known for his role in the 1988 horror movie Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, and for having a role in the 1992 hit movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer. His most recent...
  
  --Larry
• Joseph D. Reitman
  Joseph D. Reitman
  Joseph D. Reitman is an American actor, film producer, film director, and writer.-Early life and career:Joe Reitman grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and majored in theatre at Pitzer College in Claremont, California...
  
  --Dick

Critical reception

Mr. Payback received negative reviews from critics. Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film a mere half-star out of a possible four, and called it "the kind of film where horrified parents might encourage the kids to shout at the screen, hoping the noise might drown out the flood of garbage." Ebert also commented on how movies should act on you, not the other way around. Ebert later called it the worst movie of 1995. Gene Siskel

Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal "Gene" Siskel was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune. Along with colleague Roger Ebert, he hosted the popular review show Siskel & Ebert At the Movies from 1975 until his death....

 also disliked the film, thus leading to it obtaining two thumbs down on Siskel & Ebert. Ty Burr

Ty Burr

Ty Burr has been a film critic for the Boston Globe since 2002 where he reviews films alongside Wesley Morris.Born in 1957, he studied film at Dartmouth College and New York University and has written three books: The Hundred Greatest Movies of All Time, The Hundred Greatest Stars of All Time and...

 of Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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tagged the film with an "F" grade.