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Dec 25, 2003 · Paycheck: Directed by John Woo. With Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti. What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.
- (113K)
- Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- John Woo
- 2003-12-25
Ben Affleck as Michael Jennings, a reverse engineer; Uma Thurman as Rachel Porter, a biologist and Jennings's lover; Aaron Eckhart as James Rethrick, a billionaire CEO and Jennings' former friend; Colm Feore as John Wolfe, Rethrick's right-hand man; Peter Friedman as Attorney General Brown; Paul Giamatti as Shorty, Jennings's friend; Michael C ...
Michael Jennings : Time *travel*, yes. But Einstein was very clear that he believed time viewing, theoretically, could be accomplished. Michael Jennings : Oh, my God, it's the future. The machine predicts a war - and we go to war to avert it. It predicts a plague - we herd all the sick together, create a plague.
In the near future, Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a reverse engineer; he analyzes his clients' competitors' technology and recreates it, often adding improvements beyond the original specifications.
Dec 25, 2003 · Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a top-notch reverse engineer. Corporations pay him to crack the secrets of their competitors' products. When the job is done, he has his memory of it...
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- John Woo
- PG-13
- Ben Affleck
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Dec 25, 2003 · Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope.
Dec 26, 2003 · Affleck, who gets much mileage out of two facial expressions here -- grim and grimmer -- plays Michael Jennings, a brilliant reverse engineer hired by unscrupulous corporations to figure out,...
