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Summary: Embarrasing to watch...
Review: It gets one star for being a Sci-Fi movie from P.K.D., it gets another one for being a fairly interesting story.That's it. In other words, J. Woo gets absolutely no credit from me for this movie beyond rallying the resources to get it done. The cinematography is well done, you can tell they put some money in this flick, but dear god, the dialogue is pathetic! It's like they wrote this for 10 year olds..."I must destroy that machine"...Ben says. Are you kidding? What a joke. I felt embarrassed sitting in the theatre at times (especially at the end, where it felt more like a Saturday Night Live spoof than a cinematic climax). This movie is a dog....with lots of fleas. Avoid it.
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Summary: Another one bites the dust...
Review: Basically this movie suffers from flawed science, predictability, too many coincidences, poor script and dialogue. It is another Hollywood shallow and mindless movie similar to Timeline which is also another major flop. If you are over 14 years old don't bother.
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Summary: Excellent Family Movie!!
Review: Unusual plot, great acting, suspence keeps you guessing. Pace keeps up for full lenght of movie. Reccomend Highly
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Summary: AFFLECKTING, AS USUAL.
Review: What pains most about this misfire is that a luminous Uma Therman was wasted on it. Ben Affleck is his usual bland and boring self so he scores at least on consistency. But the real culprit here is John Woo. He takes a fascinating sci-fi story from Philip K. Dick, and squanders the possibilities with his usual overdose of wannabe, "look-ma-I'm-cool" gimmicks and completely pointless fight scenes. How many times can the hero be toe to toe with a villain, each with a gun in the other's face and then just walk away? Wait till you hear what was done to the plot. Our hero determines that knowing the future robs mankind of hope and will ultimately bring destruction and ruin. Yet in the end he inexplicably decides to fix the machine before he destroys it. Er, what? Skip this pointeless exercise in movie making. Wait until it makes rounds on the 1 am slot on some local channel, which should be pretty soon.
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Summary: Great action film, even though flawed
Review: I don't really understand why everyone is bashing this film. Seeing Paycheck was a pleasant surprise. Sure, the story was flawed in parts. What action film isn't? I thought there could have been more development in the lovers' relationship. Other than that, I have only a few minor quarrels. The directing was of that of a typical action film. Explosions, fast paced editing, etc... Guys will love this movie... Have fun with it.
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Summary: If Only He'd Have Skipped the Motorcycle Sequence...
Review: Given a dozen lifetimes and an endless supply of opium Nostrodamus himself could never have predicted the surreal conjuncture of three such personalities as Philip K. Dick, Ben Affleck, and John Woo. But then, no one could have predicted the existence of the infinitely bizarre world of the Hollywood film industry in the twenty-first century. Even Rod Serling could not have written of stranger circumstances. Yet there it was unfolding on the cinema screen before my very eyes. I suppose worse things could happen, but I wouldn't want to see them, and certainly not for $7.75 plus parking. Of course, I'm speaking of Paycheck, the most recent title to shatter my hopes of a good science fiction film. The problem with John Woo is that he's so...John Woo. Exactly the same can be said of watching Ben Affleck. In fact, Philip K. Dick is the only one of these three collaborators who cannot really be blamed for the atrocious excesses of this project, mostly because he's dead. To be fair, Paycheck represents Woo at his most restrained (!). Still, it proved too much for this moviegoer. Those who were hoping for another 'Minority Report' kind of experience will be sorely disappointed. Paycheck contains far too many cringe-inducing moments to match the intelligence of that other project by Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise. While trying to ignore some of the poor dialogue in this film it became apparent to me that the myriad problems in Paycheck began with the screenplay. Granted, our old paranoid friend Philip-K is not an easy man to comprehend. Yet other filmmakers, few though they are, have proven that Dick's insanely acquired taste in storytelling can be successfully adapted to the screen without any necessity to dumb them down, though it is sometimes wise to expand the action sequences. In this task John (over-the-top) Woo proved to be insanely overqualified, to the detriment of this film.
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Summary: Awful, boring, useless
Review: This movie was such a disappointment. Affleck and Thurman just can't act. They are pretty people who just can't carry a film, especially one that has the potential of having deep meaning. It's just not them. Save your money on this dog!
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Summary: absolutly awful
Review: This movie tries so hard to be cool, but it makes the film even worse. The action is a copy from the matrix and the plot is so stupid and people thought gigli was bad, this is way worse. Doesn't make any sense.
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Summary: Awexome movie!
Review: Of the reviews written most see this as another action movie while it is quite action packed and has a suspenseful plot to keep you on the edge of your seat. Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman do a great job as they try to uncover Ben's past mishap. This movie deserves more attention then it has gotten. I urge you to see it.
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Summary: John Woo is over his head with PC PM/SF
Review: Mr.(MI-2)Woo knows how to craft action "gang-bangs".But he's no Ridley Scott(BLADE RUNNER) or Steven Spielberg(MINORITY REPORT). Metaphysics and thematic possibilities, latent in science fiction masterwork of Philip K. Dick(DIVINE INVASION; MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE;the filmed Arnold Schwarzenagger showcase,TOTAL RECALL), are clearly outside his interests(ability). The film is handsomely mounted. SFX are fine to excellent. But watching amoral;high-tech, money hungry Yuppies(there's not a genuinely heroic; romantic;or reflective character...or moment...in the entire deal) grub for "futures" in THE FUTURE left me echoing Shakespeare's curse,"a Plague on both your Houses!" PAYCHECK is more about PM blood money; ENRON-like graft and racketeering, than Woo's Brioni-tailored MI clone wants to deal with. Ben Affleck made a worthy DAREDEVIL. In PAYCHECK he's simply a bounder who's talented,conscienceless thief;(he can beat-up people,too). Uma Thruman is emotionally vacuous.She epitomizes what's wrong with the movie in general. Merely LOOKING GOOD...as she; Ben; and the bad dudes/dudettes do...doesn't make a good movie."Back in the day",as kids say today, PAYCHECK would have been primo Drive-in flick. But meretricious cool,and high-tech glitz can't carry the day. PAYCHECK is about its title. Inadvertently, Director Woo is over his head in a parable about greed driving PM culture toward implosion. When villains die in PC,who cares? When parrot-loving Yups "win": Ditto. PC is a PM pseudo that really essays MONEY and looking good can save the World.[Give me old WAR OF THE WORLDS...3 stars for adept FX]
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