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Paycheck (7/10)

June 14th, 2004

While Paycheck isn’t oscar-worthy for it’s acting, story, or anything else, it is a very entertaining action/sci-fi movie. My wife and I agree on this one and we both thought it was a cool movie but was extremely corny and hokey throughout. We also noticed that Ben Affleck seems to play the same character over and over in all his movies, and Uma Thurman looked…weird. We couldn’t quite place what it was, but Uma looked funny.

As far as the story goes, it’s this: Ben Affleck plays a guy that reproduces other company’s products. His best friend contracts him for a job that will set him up for life. The catch is that he has to agree to erasing the memory of doing the job. When he’s done, he figures out that his friend killed a guy for the plans to create a device to see into the future. Therefore, he sets out to destroy the device because it will cause the world to end by massive nuclear war.

I’m glad they didn’t pay a lot of attention to the story and how to support it, because it was a little unbelievable. Since this is a John Woo film, most of the movie was just really good action sequences. If anything, that’s what you should see the movie for.

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