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Paycheck (2003)

Scifi | 119 minutes
2,92 1.376 votes

Genre: Scifi / Thriller

Duration: 119 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: John Woo

Stars: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman and Aaron Eckhart

IMDb score: 6,3 (115.291)

Releasedate: 25 December 2003

Paycheck plot

"Remember the future."

An engineer has been working on a secret project for three years. One day, he wakes up to find that his employer has erased the parts of his memory related to the project. When he wants to collect his 'paycheck', it turns out that he has agreed to pay in strange objects instead of money. He desperately tries to find the pieces from his memory while it turns out that the government is also after him. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick

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Roger Thornhill

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Actually, I always thought that was a bit bland : exactly all the gadgets James Bond gets from Q at the start of every adventure come in handy during the course of the film (or vice versa : when Bond ends up in a tricky situation, he always just happens to be working on it. beginning of the movie...). Paycheck uses that idea as the main motive: exactly all the things that Ben Affleck finds in the envelope "that doesn't belong to him" are meant to be useful in some way, only he has no idea how or what, or rather what how. A great find that cleverly keeps the story moving, coupled with fine performances from a well-chosen cast, with Paul Giamatti standing out as usual, stealing every scene he appears in effortlessly ("Say one word about this hat and I 'm outta here!"). The only downside is the routine final part in which the hero has to compete against the usual superiority of villains in a clichéd final battle, but that is only a small blemish on an otherwise very entertaining action thriller.

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FlorisV

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Watched for the third time and despite the incredibility here and there (the smoke detector, the bullet) it remains a nice film. Some may regret the lack of high-tech and futurism, but it all looks good, especially with Woo's dynamic camera direction. He is a bit too much of a fan of the Mexican stand-off, which makes it seem too posed. Certainly not the best Philip K Dick adaptation, but still one of the better ones and you have to consider again that this too was only an adaptation of a short story. Thurman doesn't always look good and Affleck stays a bit flat, as is often the case, but there is enough panache and fun in it without it getting too serious.

There are also some hidden jokes that refer to the story. For example Affleck who hints to Thurman about skipping obligatory talk and fuss and immediately acting to the point as if they have known each other for a long time... which actually happens afterwards.

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IH88

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“If you only look where you can't go, you will miss the riches below.”

Paycheck is clearly not a Minority Report. Both are film versions of the work of Philip K. Dick, but Paycheck is a lot less impressive. Paycheck's world feels smaller and lacks Spielberg's imagination and ingenuity, the actors (especially Affleck and Thurman) are not doing well, and the story is just less interesting. Whether that's because of the script or the original material I don't know, but the film is messy, rushed and the characters remain one-dimensional. A missed opportunity.

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