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Starring:
Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore, Joe Morton, Aaron Douglas, Peter Friedman, Kathryn Morris, Ivana Milicevic, Fulvio Cecere, John Cassini, Callum Keith Rennie, Michael C. Hall
Directed By:
John Woo
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Paycheck (2003)
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Movie Review by Chris
August 28th, 2007
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Its Different....
Now a days we always see movies about someone seeing the past and having to remember it for their future. But John Woo has kind of switched that around a bit. Instead of remembering his past, he must remember his future to save his past. What?
Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer and what he does is technical jobs for certain companies and as soon as he is done, his memory of the work he has done is wiped out. Now the longest he has been contracted is 2 months. But now billionaire, James Rethrick offers him a job that would last 2 years, maybe 3, and he promises that he will probably earn 8 figures. Michael agrees. Before beginning he turns in all of his personal effects. And when the job is done, his memory is erased and he learns he made over 90 million dollars over the three years. When he goes to claim it and his personal effects, he discovers that prior to the erasure of his memory he waived his rights to the money he earned and that the items that were given to him were not the ones he gave when he began. Later he is arrested by the FBI who say that he committed some act of treason and murder. It's while he is in custody that he escapes using some the items that he was given. He later meets with a friend who gives him some information that helps him understand what is going on. And at the same time Rethrick for some reason wants him so he is being pursued by Rethrick's people.
John Woo has been the action master in the few couple years. Hes given us the very well accomplished MI2. Ben Affleck puts on one of his best performances I have seen him put on in a longtime. Im not a big fan of him, but I do give him prps this time around. Uma Thurman does a very good job. Why does everyone say that shes hot? I dont know. She does do a good job though. Aaron Eckhart accomplishes his goal well in this film as well.
The action is very well done. We get some nice shootout segments and some well done fights. Theres not nonstop action in here but there are some good short scenes of it.
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