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.
Directors
Cast
Serge Houde, Colm Feore, Benita Ha, Barclay Hope, Michael C. Hall, Michelle Harrison, Kathryn Morris, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, Fulvio Cecere, Aaron Eckhart, Ben Affleck, Joe Morton, Peter Friedman, Ivana Miličević, Christopher Kennedy, John Cassini, Callum Keith Rennie, Emily Holmes, Claudette Mink, Kendall Cross, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Krista Allen, Ryan Zwick, Dee Jay Jackson, Calvin Finlayson, Darryl Scheelar, Mark Brandon, Roger Haskett, Steve Wright, Craig Hosking, Peter Shinkoda, David Lewis, Robert Clark, Andrea Siradze, Isabelle Roland, Peter Caton, Ryan Robbins, Chelah Horsdal, Craig March, Jason Calder, Mike Godenir, Brad Kelly, Brent Connolly, Michelle Anderson, Lori Berlanga
Trailer
Reviews
70
A nifty science-fiction twist on the old amnesia plot where a guy spends most of a movie trying to remember what he did and why everyone is after him.
60
Village Voice
Woo's film is in some ways closer to Dick's -- and his own -- pulp roots, and if he lazily quotes himself (and, inexplicably, Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly") once too often, he at least gets loose, spirited performances from his cast -- Uma's post-"Kill Bill" gravitas notwithstanding.
58
Entertainment Weekly
The amazing thing about John Woo's steely, impersonal adaptation of Philip K. Dick sci-fi story about a tech genius whose memory is erased...is how it vanishes in front of our eyes even as we watch it.
50
Chicago Tribune
Unfortunately, after watching Paycheck, you may wish you had the picture's gimmickry at your disposal, so you could erase your own memory of it.
50
New York Post
Woo has never been particularly good at human stuff, and to the extent that Paycheck is, or should be, a love story, it feels forced.
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