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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Studio: DreamWorks
Release Date: Dec 25, 2003
Running Time: 110 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
starring: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C Hall, Kathryn Morris, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti, Ivana Milicevic, Joe Morton, Peter Friedman
director: John Woo
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Brilliant computer engineer Michael Jennings routinely has his short term memory erased, so he can't divulge any information about the top secret projects he works on throughout the year. For his most recent gig, he expects to receive over four billion dollars. Upon completion of the job, however, Jennings is given a filled envelope--not with a check for his billions, but containing random objects. It is communicated to him that he had agreed to forfeit his payment for this specific project. With his memory erased, the meticulous engineer attempts to use the objects in the envelope to figure out what happened to him in his now obscured past. Soon, federal agents are after Jennings and he teams up with his old flame, Rachel, who helps him uncover the mystery of his past--and the question behind why the people whom he once worked for, now want him dead.
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December 23, 2003
The title of this limp retread of Minority Report -- both films are based on stories by Philip K. Dick -- presumably refers to the reason the big names involved did this movie. Ben Affleck, as lumpish here as he was in Gigli, plays a scientist who gets his memory erased after inventing a machine that sees into the future. Uma Thurman, following her triumph in Kill Bill, is reduced to playing "the girl." Speaking of waste, the great John Woo directed and stumbles again, as he did with Windtalkers
Would you give up three years' worth of memories for $92 million? For that amount of money, most people might--and that's exactly what Michael Jennings agrees to do in this sci-fi thriller. Unfortunately, Paycheck fails to fully explore the interesting question it poses and regresses into a brainless actioner. Story Destroying memories is nothing new to Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck), a ''reverse-engineer'' who earns his living deconstructing high-tech equipment and reassembling it with even
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