Paycheck
"The future depends on a past he was paid to forget."
6.2•December 25, 2003•1h 59m
Storyline
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.
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Top Cast
Ben Affleck
Michael Jennings
Uma Thurman
Rachel Porter
Aaron Eckhart
James Rethrick
Paul Giamatti
Shorty
Colm Feore
John Wolfe
Joe Morton
Agent Dodge
Michael C. Hall
Agent Klein
Kathryn Morris
Rita Dunne
Claudette Mink
Sara Rethrick
Peter Friedman
Attorney General Brown
Ivana Miličević
Maya-Rachel
Christopher Kennedy
Stevens
Featured Reviews
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Rob
June 24, 2023
4 / 10
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.
