Product Description

What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why hes being chased. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/24/2006 Starring: Uma Thurman Aaron Eckhart Run time: 118 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: John Woo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9644 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2004-05-18
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 119 minutes

Amazon.com
The brainy, paranoid science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick has inspired one visionary classic (Blade Runner) and two above-average action movies (Total Recall and Minority Report). Paycheck aspires to follow in their footsteps: An engineer (Ben Affleck, Chasing Amy) routinely agrees to have his memory erased after every job so that he doesn't know what he's done. But after the biggest job of his life, he discovers that not only has he refused a $90 million paycheck, he's sent himself an envelope full of things he doesn't recognize--and he doesn't remember doing any of this. As he unravels the plot, he discovers he's also fallen in love (with Uma Thurman, Kill Bill) and invented a dangerous device for his former boss (Aaron Eckhart, Erin Brockovich). Affleck is bland, the script ruins a cunning idea, and the direction--from the normally dynamic John Woo (Face/Off)--plods along, aimless and bored. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

What's in your wallet?
This is an excellent sci-fi film. A young man (Affleck) has his memory wiped after every job, but his paycheck more than makes up for all the lost time. But he becomes confused when he wakes up from the latest memory wipe and finds that he has forfeited his paycheck. He has to go back to a time he can't remember to find out what happened to his paycheck and how a mysterious woman (Thurman) fits into his past with only twenty items he mailed to himself to help him.

Fun Sci-Fi/Action Flick
I watched this film by myself, enjoyed it, then read a bunch of bad reviews dating mainly from soon after its release. I could not comprehend all the hostility. A few weeks later, I watched it again, this time with my wife, who also enjoyed it. In a nutshell: if you liked Total Recall and Minority Report, you'll probably like this. I sense that a lot of the negative reviews come from people who don't like Ben Affleck (for whatever reason). If you're one of them, you should probably pass. If you're not part of that group, you should check this out. I liked him in Sum of All Fears, and thought he was good in this. I would have given this 4.5, but that was not an option. Good premise, good action, nice chases, and a little sci fi thrown in.

The future has come home
Paycheck has advanced themes that it should pay closer attention to but the whole of the movie is fascinating. The movie projects Michael Jennings (Ben Afleck) on a course to save the world only he does not know it at the time. Michael is a reverse engineer, stealing designs from someone else and making slight modifications for his employer so they can trump the competition. "Future" science prevails in many different ways. Science fiction fans will love it.