Paycheck

Paycheck

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

Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director(s): John Woo
Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti
Production: Paramount Pictures
  3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
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PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
2003
119
$53,681,119
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Jimmy Rethrick:
I am the future.

Rachel Porter:
You don't remember me.

Michael Jennings:
If you love me, if you care about me, go. Have a good life. Remember me.

Jimmy Rethrick:
And what were you doing during all of this?

Wolfe:
I was eating pie.

Michael Jennings:
What's my favorite baseball team?

Maya:
What?

Michael Jennings:
What's my favorite baseball team?

Maya:
Who cares?

Rachel Porter:
That would be the Red Sox?

Jimmy Rethrick:
Mr. Jennings has a date on the catwalks. Let's make sure he makes it.

Michael Jennings:
What happened?

Jimmy Rethrick:
Michael, you're done!

James Rethrick:
Michael Jennings is not a super agent, he's an engineer.

Shorty:
Say one word about this hat, and I'm outta here.

Rachel Porter:
Hey, I said you were okay, okay?

Michael Jennings:
Okay!

Holographic Woman:
It's time to wake up... and get a life. We live in a 3-dimensional world. Until now, the world of computing has been a flat world, consisting of 2-dimensional imagery. Now, through the use of exclusive breakthrough technology, ARC has made it possible for you to get a life. A-Life, where we can work and play in a lifelike world of 3-dimensional reality. A-Life, the living monitor.

Shorty:
You know what? I think now's probably a good time to discuss my commission, 33%.

Michael Jennings:
I thought it was 5.

Shorty:
No, 33 percent.

Michael Jennings:
33 percent!

Rachel Porter:
He deserves it.

Shorty:
It was found on my premises.

Michael Jennings:
I'll get back to you. I'm gonna cash this in.

Rachel Porter:
Some of the best things in life are mistakes.

Michael Jennings:
If you only look where you can't go, you might just miss the riches below

Michael Jennings:
If you show someone their future, they have no future. If you take away the mystery, you take away the hope.

At the lab:

Rachel:
Michael! What are you doing?

Jennings:
Go. I'll distract them.

Jennings:
Go, please.

Rachel:
No!

Jennings Listen to me. This is my debt. I built this machine. I have to pay for it.

Rachel:
You come with me now! You promised. you'd change your fate!

Jennings:
Please, we don't have time. If you love me, if you care about me, go. Have a good life. Remember me.

Rachel- Damn you.

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