Paycheck 2003

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

6.201 / 10   1730 vote(s)
PG-13
Action Adventure Mystery 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.

Release Date 2003-12-25
Runtime 1h 59m
Directors Jeffrey L. Kimball, John Woo, Nancy Anna Brown, Phil Pastuhov, Arthur Anderson, Daniel Mansfield, Jamie Marshall, Cameron Kuc, Ashley Bell, Brian Smrz, Michael Collins
Producers Arthur Anderson, John Davis, Terence Chang, John Woo, Michael Hackett, David Solomon, Caroline Macaulay, Stratton Leopold, Denise Davis
Writers Dean Georgaris, Marc Marcum, Philip K. Dick

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.

Rob