Movie Review: Paycheck (2003)

The summary as seen on Internet Movie Database:

Directed by John Woo
Starring Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Paul Giamatti
119 Minutes
PG-13


Paycheck (2003)


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 he's being chased.


WARNING: THIS MOVIE CONTAINS MATERIAL UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13 WITHOUT PARENTAL GUIDANCE.

Review:
Paycheck is a science fiction action movie that takes place in the near future. The film is not too specific on exactly what year but we do know it's the future because of the technology that is presented throughout the film. 


Ben Affleck plays the main character (Jennings) who is an engineer that does work for various companies and gets a huge paycheck. the catch is that every time he is finished with a project, he has his memory erased. Jennings takes on a job that takes 3 years that will give him a 90 million dollar pay check.  After he is done working, he goes to collect his salary but finds out that he had given the money back a week before. Jennings has no clue why he did this since he had his memory erased. He receives an envelope that has 20 different items that help him go through obstacles that he comes across after being framed of murdering someone.


The rest of the movie consists of Jennings finding out why he gave away the money and remembering that he had created this machine that lets people see what their future holds.


It is an intense science fiction movie with cool fight scenes that include shootouts and explosions. I would say that the movie is a cool guy movie since to watch when you are in the mood to watch something with violence . The plot was really cool and i enjoyed it alot but i felt that the way it was filmed could have been better and there were too many unneccesary slow motion scenes that ruined  some of the action parts of the movie. I also felt that the  characters other than Jennings, were a bit boring and needed some more time in the screen to have some growth. Another thing that bothered me was Aaron Eckhart's character and role as the main villain. It seemed like he was just there and that he could have been presented in a better way since he was the main villain and the reason that the story even happened.


To find out what happens, go watch it and see what you think of it! it is available on Netflix on watch instantly so you can watch it on your laptop or have it streamed straight through your TV. 

Click here to watch the trailer on youtube!