Paycheck Reviews and Ratings



  • December 20, 2009
    A great fast paced action movie directed by John Woo. Really enjoyed it.
  • December 9, 2009
    too many shitty scenes
  • September 30, 2009
    A kind of interesting story/premise, but really poorly done.
    Ben Affleck is a strange character and a really unconvincing action hero.. but actually, kind of hard to imagine him being a really convincing anything. How he randomly has all these fighting moves in his character rep...( read more)ertoire is pretty confusing.
    Uma Thurman is strangely not very attractive in this movie, I don't know what it is. She was a stone cold fox in the Kill Bill movies. And she and Ben Affleck seem like a terrible matchup no matter what the circumstances.
    The screenplay sucks, it's just filled with a million implausibilities and nothing to really make you give a shit. Lousy movie.
  • September 30, 2009
    once again, Affleck Rules! this movie was just okay though.
  • September 23, 2009
    Please explain was the Pointless-Predictable Action-Thrillers always somehow make us happy?
  • September 16, 2009
    One of John Woo's typical Hollywood dissapointing films. Ben Affleck sucks and Uma Thurman was a little bit annoying. Nothing new here...

    44/100
  • September 15, 2009
    Some guys in suits, who don't read books, make a lot of money and Mr Dick keeps on rolling!
  • September 13, 2009
    Nice Sci-fi movie, it wasnt boring for me, got me focused till the end..
  • September 13, 2009
    Una pelicula magistral acerca de como puede ser el futuro y lo `peligroso q sería si alguien pudiera conocerlo, lo bueno y fascinante de esta pelicula es ver como Ben Affleck, logra impedir esto con elementos q no son de ningún peligro
  • September 8, 2009
    I liked the story and the time-machine idea seemed pretty cool.
  • September 3, 2009
    I love this movie it fantastic
  • August 17, 2009
    It's not the worse movie... You'd have thought that having Ben Affleck in it would have made bad in itself, but he wasn't as terrible as I expected. John Woo's biggest mistake was the person hired for the music. His second mistake was letting the really bad dialogue slip through....( read more) The movie would've made a whole lot more sense if you switched roles between Michael C. Hall and Ben Affleck.
  • July 31, 2009
    this movie is a little silly. the performances look fake, the story is tied together extremely loosely and affleck is once again boring
  • July 7, 2009
    good movie,Ben Affleck did well. story line is very good
  • June 27, 2009
    muh, was this suppose to be entertaining?
  • June 27, 2009
    Brilliant computer engineer Michael Jennings routinely has his short term memory erased, so he can't divulge any information about the top secret projects he works on throughout the year. For his most recent gig, he expects to receive over four billi
  • June 19, 2009
    oh poor john who,where are your great skill in creating a fun action flick?
  • June 19, 2009
    Cool soundtrack. Nice sci-fi.
  • June 18, 2009
    booooooooooooring!!!!!!
  • June 15, 2009
    Unique and well done. A "Don't miss it" for all action fans.
  • May 30, 2009
    Freaky, but good and Uma was breath taking...
  • May 27, 2009
    A pretty poor Sci-Fi flick. Visuals were average and the acting kinda poor.
  • May 21, 2009
    For starring two people I do not like, the movie was very good. John Woo does a great job and makes it even look like Ben Affleck can act!
  • May 9, 2009
    good sci-fi with Affleck
  • May 7, 2009
    A film of epic proportions. With an incredibly entertaining and thrilling plot that neither felt cheesy nor impossible. This is one I will probably get in HD and watch multiple times! This is Something I recommend to anyone who wants an awesome action/mystery and for once wants a...( read more) plot that is awesome!

    PS: Yes, the Engineer turned Martial Arts/Super Agent BS is kind of like way unbelievable, but over look that for an incredible movie!
  • April 27, 2009
    This one was pretty good with some nice visuals!
  • April 23, 2009
    "One big paycheck. You're done."

    "Blade Runner", "Total Recall", "Minority Report". All of the before mentioned are based on Philip K. Dick's stories just as this movie. Those three are great movies. "Paycheck" is not.

    John Woo, the director, may have had a great past in action...( read more) movies but since he started making movies in Hollywood, his career has gone on the wrong tracks. Now, he's back in Hong Kong, hopefully making better movies. I guess why I wrote this segment is that I'm trying to say that he was the wrong man for the job. He's too inconsistent. "Black Jack" - "Face/Off" should prove my point.

    The story itself is interesting but pretty much everything with Dick's name on is worth taking a look. The story develops nicely and there ain't any bigger problems with the pacing.

    All it needs, for a 'what may look good' movie to turn bad, is a single scene. And that scene in this movie is the chase scene where Ben Affleck's character, who has a motorcycle, is trying to get away from the bad guys, who are driving cars. I just can't figure it out, why can't they get away with a motorcycle during rush hour? Why is he driving 50 mph when he could do it in style and drive 150?

    Rest of the action scenes are a bit beneath average. Like the final scene where Affleck takes the final steps to save his future. Somehow a computer engineer suddenly turns into a skilled super agent guy thingy...

    Pretty much everything with "Paycheck" was a disappointment in the end. Even Uma Thurman! And yes, there are the John Woo trademarks in the movie; slow mo flying birds, exploding barrels, calm music during the action scenes...

    "Wait, I remember these birds... "
  • April 3, 2009
    Really really GREAT!!!
  • April 2, 2009
    Some the characters' behaviors in this movie make you seriously question its credibility. For example, after meeting the love of his life, having forgotten the three years he spent with her, Michael doesn't even blink. Not one emotion shows at the surface. When they both go back,...( read more) and Rethrick waits for them to fix the machine, there's no good explanation why Michael actually does that. Being so smart and intuitive throughout the movie, he doesn't realize Rethrick's scheme? I would ask for at least a minimum of ambivalence in this matter, having to fix it in order to escape, while trying at least to try and prevent the destruction of the world.
  • March 28, 2009
    A futuristic Sci-fi/Action film which has it?s interesting plot moments, I?m usually not much of a fan of Ben Affleck, but he seems to do ok here. The envelope idea, of course holds the interest of the audience and although this is a futuristic tale, the storyline tells more lik...( read more)e a time travel story.

    A very watchable film, with limited brain work required.
  • March 26, 2009
    yeah Paycheck my butt.
  • March 22, 2009
    This was alright, but it really should have been a lot better.
  • March 12, 2009
    Good cast, but there was just nothing really good in the film, which really made the couple bad aspects of the film stick out like a black dinosaur in a snowstorm.
  • March 11, 2009
    I really really like this film, but not sure why! Isn't that unusual. Great story, great actors. Recommend it.
  • March 7, 2009
    Pretty good. I'm very familiar with the source material, so I thought it could have been a lot better. I blame the producers.
  • March 2, 2009
    Good caste and superb performance.
  • February 24, 2009
    I suprisingly loved this movie. I think someone else rented this & I watched it cause I was bored. Little did I know that the story was great & filled with lots of action. I rarely like Ben Affleck movies besides the obvious Good Will Hunting, but he was actually good in this!
  • February 24, 2009
    Bad CGI doves by John Woo...Yikes!
  • February 21, 2009
    Reminds me an awful lot like Minority Report. We are able to work out what is happening fairly quickly. Nothing new to impress with this movie. A disapointment for a Philip K Dick work.

    Jimmy Rethrick: Hey, Mike, you remember when we were kids - we wanted to change the wor...( read more)ld?
    Michael Jennings: I thought we wanted to *save* the world, Jimmy.
    Jimmy Rethrick: [he shrugs] That's semantics
  • February 20, 2009
    This is story about a Computer Engineer, whose memory has been erased after a Future Machine has been created by him, he has saw his future in that machine and by this, he has come to know that someone will kill him in future so to save his life in future, he sending some strange...( read more) things to himself by post in order to recall him what is going to happen to him in future..and after that he would survives his life!!

    Worthfull Movie!!

    This Charactor is something related to Ghajini's Aamir Short term memory lose problem where he couldn't remember the things after every 15 mins, and he is writing things on his body and everywhere in oder to recall him!

    -mudassar
  • February 19, 2009
    6/10
    Trading in thoughtful themes for action, Paycheck is sanitized and transformed into a simple spectacle but it is still enjoyable.
  • February 19, 2009
    Sci-fi action, then Zzzzz...
  • February 15, 2009
    Ben Affleck playing a brilliant computer engineer? I don't think so!

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