This is the most underrated and hated sci-fi futuristic action thriller from Hong Kong action master director John Woo. This is my fourth favorite John Woo movie and the last movie John Woo directed in USA. It is my favorite Ben Affleck movie that he ever did. Paycheck is underrated, good, decent awesome sci-fi futuristic action flick. Yes I love this film to death! For John Woo I only watch 4 of his movies and they are my favorite action films and they are just my movies that John Woo directed. Hard Target (1993), Hard Boiled (1992), Broken Arrow (1996) and this one Paycheck those rae the only ones I watch. I don't like his other movies like Face/Off (1997), A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2, The Killer, Mission: Impossible II, Windtalkers, Red Cliff 1 and 2 I just don't like those movies some of them I do have in my Blu-ray collection.
I know and I understand why people hate this film, why this film is people's not favorite from John Woo. Because it is rated PG-13, it has less shout outs, it is not bloody and it does not have a lot of body's and blood. Even with rating PG-13 this movie it is still solid and good. It still has action Ben Affleck is still in his best shape. He does a good fine job as the hero. Uma Thurman is sexy, gorgeous and likable. Right after Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003) she went and make this movie, after this movie she made Kill Bill Vol 2 (2004). Aaron Eckhart from The Dark Knight and The Expatriate aka Erased (2012) is in this movie and he does a great terrific job as the villain. We have Joe Morton from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) my favorite film and Michael C. Hall from Dexter (2012). To me it is an excellent cast.
John Woo directed perfectly this film I have no problems with this film. So what if it is not tons of blood and action from John Woo I enjoy it. Most of the people does not get this film. It is based on the short story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick the same autor wrote a short story that later made the film Total Recall (1990) with Schwarzenegger in the lead. This movie does not have Schwarzenegger in here, but Ben Affleck took over. This movie is about a time machine in which you re write your future.
Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a brilliant computer engineer hierd for top-secret projects. After each job , Jennings short term memory is erased so he cannot recount any project information. Emerging from his latest assignment , a three year contract with an eight-figure paycheck given to him by his longtime high school class mate (Aaron Eckhart). Jennings is jolted when he is told that during the end of his assignment, he agreed to forfeit all payment. Jennings has no resource until he recives a mysterious envelope containing clues to his forgoten past. With the help of a beautiful scientist (Uma Thurman) he once loved but now cannot remember. Jennings races to solve the puzzle while a terrifying discovery waits on his future.
This movie has everything: sci-fi, mystery, action on MacGyver way. Jennings builds a time machine in which you can re write your future. Jennings memorie is erased and with help of 19 objects in envelope Jennings is hunted by FBI and mercenaries from the man that hired him to build the time machine. There is a lot of martial arts and fight scenes. Affleck uses his martial arts on the bad guys in self defence in the mall. You have great his speed car chases.
My personal favorite scene is Motorcycle that helps the main characters Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) and Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), to escape from the car chase. Afllect and Turman ride excellent Motorcycle while mercenaries are trying to kill them with their cars, You have a killer shooting from his car on Rachel with his gun. I love the second act in which Jennings escapes with help of envelope subjects and is on the run from a killer squad and FBI wanted for a terrorism. This movie still has some action sequences on a John Woo action style. John Woo did a different turn and he got crap for it. I understand people hate this film, I don't I love this film to death!!! It is better than nowdays crap movies. I don't care if it is CGI in here, the effects work perfectly.
This is my favorite science fiction futuristic film with RoboCop, Demolition Man, Aliens and The Road Warrior it is up there with those classic movies. I enjoy this movie MILES way more than Minority Report and yes I saw that movie in movie teather with my class in 2002 and no it was not a movie I liked. This movie I enjoy and I love. I never read short story from Philip K. Dick, but the film is great in my opinion. Uma Thurman is sexy as Rachel plant biologist she is a kick-ass biologist.
You still have explosions, even tough Jennings almost dosen't kill anyone, you still see a lot of handguns and automatic guns. Jennings still uses his brain by defeating the bad guys, by using MacGyver methodes, by not killing anyone. I enjoy Music by John Powell I thought it was solid done music score tune.
Paycheck is my personal favorite film from John Woo and Ben Affleck. I only watch Hard Target, Hard Boiled, Broken Arrow and this movie Paycheck for John Woo. For Ben Affleck I enjoy: Reindeer Games, The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil and this one Paycheck. Those are the only films from Ben Aflleck I watch, own in my Blu-ray colelction , love and enjoy. I never saw Argo I don't own the film and I have no interest watching it. I hate Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League because Ben Affleck is no Bruce Wayne/Batman he does not act like Cape Crusader we saw in animated series and Christopher Nolan trilogy. Ben Affleck is the best as the lead hero Michael Jennings.
There is alot of female lead in John Woo movies. In Hard Target we did had Yancy Butler in Hard Boiled was Teresa Mo in Broken Arrow was Samantha Mathis the main lead in here the main lead is Uma Thurman her great performance. The movie it still filed with action, mystery and sci-fi so I enjoy it and I love this film to death. John Woo's most undarreted movie of all time.
I know and I understand why people hate this film, why this film is people's not favorite from John Woo. Because it is rated PG-13, it has less shout outs, it is not bloody and it does not have a lot of body's and blood. Even with rating PG-13 this movie it is still solid and good. It still has action Ben Affleck is still in his best shape. He does a good fine job as the hero. Uma Thurman is sexy, gorgeous and likable. Right after Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003) she went and make this movie, after this movie she made Kill Bill Vol 2 (2004). Aaron Eckhart from The Dark Knight and The Expatriate aka Erased (2012) is in this movie and he does a great terrific job as the villain. We have Joe Morton from Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) my favorite film and Michael C. Hall from Dexter (2012). To me it is an excellent cast.
John Woo directed perfectly this film I have no problems with this film. So what if it is not tons of blood and action from John Woo I enjoy it. Most of the people does not get this film. It is based on the short story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick the same autor wrote a short story that later made the film Total Recall (1990) with Schwarzenegger in the lead. This movie does not have Schwarzenegger in here, but Ben Affleck took over. This movie is about a time machine in which you re write your future.
Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a brilliant computer engineer hierd for top-secret projects. After each job , Jennings short term memory is erased so he cannot recount any project information. Emerging from his latest assignment , a three year contract with an eight-figure paycheck given to him by his longtime high school class mate (Aaron Eckhart). Jennings is jolted when he is told that during the end of his assignment, he agreed to forfeit all payment. Jennings has no resource until he recives a mysterious envelope containing clues to his forgoten past. With the help of a beautiful scientist (Uma Thurman) he once loved but now cannot remember. Jennings races to solve the puzzle while a terrifying discovery waits on his future.
This movie has everything: sci-fi, mystery, action on MacGyver way. Jennings builds a time machine in which you can re write your future. Jennings memorie is erased and with help of 19 objects in envelope Jennings is hunted by FBI and mercenaries from the man that hired him to build the time machine. There is a lot of martial arts and fight scenes. Affleck uses his martial arts on the bad guys in self defence in the mall. You have great his speed car chases.
My personal favorite scene is Motorcycle that helps the main characters Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) and Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), to escape from the car chase. Afllect and Turman ride excellent Motorcycle while mercenaries are trying to kill them with their cars, You have a killer shooting from his car on Rachel with his gun. I love the second act in which Jennings escapes with help of envelope subjects and is on the run from a killer squad and FBI wanted for a terrorism. This movie still has some action sequences on a John Woo action style. John Woo did a different turn and he got crap for it. I understand people hate this film, I don't I love this film to death!!! It is better than nowdays crap movies. I don't care if it is CGI in here, the effects work perfectly.
This is my favorite science fiction futuristic film with RoboCop, Demolition Man, Aliens and The Road Warrior it is up there with those classic movies. I enjoy this movie MILES way more than Minority Report and yes I saw that movie in movie teather with my class in 2002 and no it was not a movie I liked. This movie I enjoy and I love. I never read short story from Philip K. Dick, but the film is great in my opinion. Uma Thurman is sexy as Rachel plant biologist she is a kick-ass biologist.
You still have explosions, even tough Jennings almost dosen't kill anyone, you still see a lot of handguns and automatic guns. Jennings still uses his brain by defeating the bad guys, by using MacGyver methodes, by not killing anyone. I enjoy Music by John Powell I thought it was solid done music score tune.
Paycheck is my personal favorite film from John Woo and Ben Affleck. I only watch Hard Target, Hard Boiled, Broken Arrow and this movie Paycheck for John Woo. For Ben Affleck I enjoy: Reindeer Games, The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil and this one Paycheck. Those are the only films from Ben Aflleck I watch, own in my Blu-ray colelction , love and enjoy. I never saw Argo I don't own the film and I have no interest watching it. I hate Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League because Ben Affleck is no Bruce Wayne/Batman he does not act like Cape Crusader we saw in animated series and Christopher Nolan trilogy. Ben Affleck is the best as the lead hero Michael Jennings.
There is alot of female lead in John Woo movies. In Hard Target we did had Yancy Butler in Hard Boiled was Teresa Mo in Broken Arrow was Samantha Mathis the main lead in here the main lead is Uma Thurman her great performance. The movie it still filed with action, mystery and sci-fi so I enjoy it and I love this film to death. John Woo's most undarreted movie of all time.