Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Paycheck is a forgettable movie with a complicated plot. You have to pay close attention to this film to know what is going on, if you lose track even for a few minutes the film will have you confused. The story line is not that interesting, the performances are okay, the best part of the film is the first half, there is some good camerawork and there are a few decent action scenes, there is a very good high-speed bike/car chase scene, but after that this flick goes downhill fast! (no pun intended).The rest of the movie is just a bunch of nothing, it becomes completely uninteresting and you can't wait for it to end. Plus, i don't like the caged bird situation, birds shouldn't be caged pets, they should be in a sanctuary with an open-cage where they can fly around as they please. I know the birds are a part of the story, but the writers could have changed it.Paycheck - The film tries too hard as time goes on and it just ends up becoming really boring. Not a very good film.

"Paycheck" is the umpteenth adaptation to the big screen of a text by Philip K. Dick, writer of science fiction short stories that has given genre films such as "Blade Runner" (Ridley Scott, 1982), "Total Recall" (by the Dutchman Paul Verhoeven, 1990), "Minority Report" (Steven Spielberg, 2002) and the less popular "Screamers" (Christian Duguay, 1995). These films did justice to these three novels with tremendously complete feature films, mixing with a watchmaker's precision: mystery, intimate drama, sci- fi and action. But unfortunately, the Chinese director John Woo is only carried away by the latter: the action, and it only shows glimpses of science-fiction and criminal mystery very little matured and detailed, setting everything in a contemporary world with buses and cars from few years ago, something quite illogical how we have been able to evolve both in some sectors and in others not? Farewell then to be able to enjoy in "Paycheck" of unforgettable symbolic allegories, and of reflections and situations matured of dramatic weight. Of course no one here expects a monologue on mortality to the "all those memories will be lost in time, like tears in the rain...", no, because "Paycheck" is limited to the action of a very basic conspiracy with persecutions and a mystery overly simplified and superficial. As I said the written above, probably assigned John Woo to direct this film, to "train" in science fiction, perhaps because the cinema of Hong Kong lacked films of this genre.Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is an engineer who spends a year working on a project for a company but, as they agreed, at the end of the task, all the memories he had from that last year would be erased from his memory. When he is paid the large salary agreed, he receives a package with a series of strange utensils, which he has never used or is difficult to get used to...and it seems he sent it himself. There are a couple of situations where he sees that these objects make him escape from death or avoid being stopped by the police and strange men in suits. He does not know why he is pursued, he does not know why he sent himself these objects or if it has something to do with the mysterious project he has been working on for the past year.Interesting, right? For everything is spoiled because then the mystery evaporates, the solutions come by the easy way of science fiction more fictitious, the rest of the scenes are action without feet nor head, things that if you have not done in your life James Bond, Jason Bourne or Frank Martin, how the hell are you going to make a damn engineer who only knows how to design and tighten nuts? Is this guy trying to be cloned off as the future's answer to MacGyver? Plus even when he's offered a gun he refuses. He is such a wuss.It's easy and predictable, disgraceful to see a plenty of actors so good in a stupid and boring turkey...I mean Aaron Eckhart, Paul Giamatti, Joe Morton and Uma Thurman...Affleck is a good screenwriter, but his Interpretative level is to the one of "Paycheck". Thurman, who came from starring in "Kill Bill" as a kick-ass heroine, in this film was reduced to a just a damsel in distress.You know, if you want to laugh with this collosal garbage (with this waste of such a good idea), download it, even if I'm against piracy, because paying to see it is an insult to your own intelligence. And those who liked that movie, I'm sure they praise it because was directed by a Chinese ... why do not they see Japanese sci-fi anime movies instead?

Ben Affleck features as Michael Jennings and acts as an engineer. He agrees to get his memory erased as a part of the contract. He is shown to be a genius and outsmarts the rest of the people. In one of the assignments, he finds out that he himself forfeited his amount and sent himself a mail containing everyday items. The movie starts with good hope that something interesting will show up but after the half time, the story kinda of becomes obvious. Jennings actually had designed a machine that could see the future and he has sent himself some items that would help him escape his fate. The only suspense in the movie till the end is the fact if Michael Jennings would be able to change his future or not which he does eventually. I feel this movie is underrated on IMDb and could receive much higher rating, so rating this as 8.

While you may not know the name Phillip K. Dick, many of the biggest Science Fiction films of the last thirty years have been adaptations of his work. Dick is responsible for the films Blade Runner, The Terminator, Total Recall, Minority Report, and Paycheck just to name a few. Due to the popularity of his work in film and how successful they've been, even a lesser known work like Paycheck has been made into a film. The story includes many of the action sequences and interesting characters associated with Dick's stories, but Paycheck does lack the futuristic Science Fiction that has become Dick's signature, which is the main reason this story isn't as well known as his other works. The story takes place in modern day, where a man is offered an irresistible deal. Jennings (Ben Affleck) is told that if he works on a secret project for the next 3 years, he will receive 100 million dollars. The only catch being that after the 3 years are up, Jennings memory will be erased and he will have no idea what he worked on. As expected, Jennings accepts the deal and returns to his life 3 years later, but nothing is that simple. Soon everyone from the FBI to bounty hunters show up trying to get to him, and the only clues he has come from an envelope he sent himself, containing 19 random items that seem to have little or no value. Ben Affleck stars and by this point we all know how I feel about him. Affleck is a terrific Director, who seems to have little interest in acting anymore. Paycheck however is a 2003 film, a time before Affleck had proved himself and he shows that rare charisma that is only present in his real early work. His performance is outstanding and aided further by his chemistry with co-star Uma Thurman. Thurman is another performer who I find isn't very good unless she's in very specific type of role, and fortunately for Affleck, this is one of those roles. Paycheck is missing the big signature associated with Dick's work and will be somewhat disappointing to his fans. I did miss the futuristic element, but I was intrigued by the mystery Jennings was trying to solve and the 19 items. Combined with the action sequences, (that are always top notch) Paycheck isn't what I expected, but was still very well done and definitely worth watching.