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. But he gets a paycheck, of 4 billion dollars. However, what he gets is only a small bag of worthless clues and trinkets. Now he has to collect his memories to prove that he's innocent.
19 June 1973, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
April 24, 1973 in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
1 February 1971, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
29 April 1970, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
6 June 1967, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
4 April 1971, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 March 1977, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
August 4, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
15 August 1972, Berkeley, California, USA
31 March 1958
30 March 1976, Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada
4 August 1976, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
24 March 1975, Puyallup, Washington, USA
May 14, 2012
Woo's stylish touches fall flat in this forgettable project
December 26, 2003
You may not buy everything about this movie, but you'll likely leave it with a smile.
December 25, 2003
If a movie is going to flout, or at least bend, the laws of the universe, it at least ought to obey its own internal rules.
February 09, 2006
There's a sense of treading water about this movie.
December 25, 2003
[Woo] still has pretty much of a tin ear for American performances, so he lets Affleck doze through the starring role. The film feels as if it has no center.
May 18, 2009
Paycheck takes two hours to watch and two minutes to forget.
May 17, 2009
Playful but inconsequential...the interpretation of Dick's intriguing concept is a street which mostly just dead-ends into noisy silliness. [Blu-ray]
January 09, 2010
It's not necessarily high brow sci-fi, but it is very accessible to the mainstream eye.
December 27, 2010
This movie just sags, even in the action scenes.
May 11, 2009
"Paycheck" is a no-brainer action movie with just enough sci-fi thematic input to keep it spicy.
December 26, 2003
Without ever quite becoming boring, Paycheck seems to narrow into a routine pattern, and a plot that at first had nuance and the hint of a broader meaning degenerates into chases and standard action.
December 25, 2003
Though the premise is provocative enough, the execution feels like a host of other violent action-drenched movies.

