Paycheck

Synopsis: From director John Woo comes this futuristic thriller that combines spectacular actino sequences with a spellbinding mystery that will kepp you guessing from beginning to breathtaking end.

Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a brilliant computer engineer hired for top secret projects. After each job, Jennings short term memory is erased so he cannot recount any project information. Emerging from his latest assignment, a three year contract with an eight figure paycheck geven to him by his longtime friend 9Aaron Eckhart), Jennings is jolted when he is told that during the end of his assignment, he aggreed to forfeit all payment.

Jennings has no recourse until he recieves a mysterious envelope containing clues to his forgotten past. With the help of a beautiful scientist (Uma Thurman) he once loved by not cannot remember, jennings races to solve the puzzle of his past...while a terrifying discovery waits in his future.

Rating: PG-13

Run Time: 118 Minutes

Director: John Woo

Dvd Extra's: Commentary by Director John Woo and Screenwriter Dean Georgaris, Paycheck Designing the future, Tempting Fate: the stunts of paycheck, extended and deleted scenes, Languages: English and French, Subtitles, English, Chinese, Bahasa, and Thai.

Nudity Factor: None

Of Note: The 20 items that Jennings sent to himself are: sunglasses, pack of cigarettes, bus pass, diamond ring, paperclip, fortune from a cookie, janitor's key, lighter, hairspray, matchbook, Allcom pass, BMW key, looking glass, stamp, ball bearings, allen wrench, half dollar, cross word puzzle, bullet, and a watch.

Trailer: Paycheck Trailer

Review by: Jason James Rating:

I do really like this movie. To start off Ben Affleck plays a reverse engineer that is hired for a large sum of money to reverse engineer products. Part of the deal is that he has to get his memory wiped so that he does not remember what he worked on and what he created. Along comes a deal he can't pass up, the deal that will make it so he does not have to do any more projects. Catch is this deal will take 3 years and all he knows is he will be working with optics. That is about all I can tell you without needing to wipe your memory as well. The story itself does stretch reality a ways but that is why we watch movies anyways. I should let you know that the movie is more about solving pieces of a puzzle then actually doing the reverse engineering. This is the really fun part that keeps you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out what he has to do to change his future. I would have to say that Ben Affleck does a great job in this role and Uma Thurman sells her character very well. The two of them at least on the screen seem to work very well together. This does have a little of everything from action to mystery, and even a little romance. Overall I enjoyed this movie even though I have seen it several times it still stands as a good movie.