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Paycheck

Name: Paycheck
Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Released: 2003-12-25
Duration: 119 min

The future depends on a past he was paid to forget.

20031h 59mcritics 6.2/10

Action Science Fiction Thriller

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

starring Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti

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Metacritic9 read

“it's almost embarrassing to watch it fall down a steep set of stairs in the second act”
drqshadowabout 33–66% inread it ↗
“Comme trop souvent avec les excellentes nouvelles de Philip K. **** adaptées au cinéma, on finit par se manger un simple film d’action à la con… pas totalement à la con bien sûr, car la base est (quand même) respectée mais son développement et son implémentation sans intelligence et sans conscience mènent quasiement à la ruine de l’oeuvre originelle. Dommage !Ben Affleck l’affligeant n’y aide pas non plus, ni Uma Thurman qui balade son petit cul de milf et puis c’est tout. Quant à John Woo, il”
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“Paycheck is a good early noughties thriller with a great cast. The plot is typical of films based on the works of Philip K. ****. In general, the very idea of erasing part of the memory is not badly beaten, it all looks not so fantastic. Paycheck as a thriller successfully keeps the viewer at the screen, there is suspense and a predictable ending. Moreover, the predictability of what is happening still has a plot explanation. Paycheck was undeservedly received by the audience. This is a really ”
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“Well scripted and well acted worth a watch It just needs a hd update and the film would fit well in today’s viewing”
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“Oh dear, this one's pretty bad. There are a lot of faces in this movie but non of them could save this disaster. Which is a shame, because this could have been a really intense and thrilling film in the hands of a different director. Instead, it comes across as a made-for-TV movie. John Woo's direction is lacklustre and cliche, the editing is lazy and the soundtrack is overblown, unfitting and downright intrusive.”
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