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Actors: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Paycheck |
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Ben Afflick stars as Michael Jennings, a brilliant "reverse engineer" who breaks down computer programs and steals the code for mega corporation Allcom. Because the work is illegal his memory is erased after he completes each job. Normally, the jobs take a few weeks.
Rethrick, the owner of Allcom, played by Aaron Eckhard, offers Jennings 92 million dollars for a project that will take 3 years. His offer creates the first of many ethical decisions Jennings faces. Can a price be placed on 3 years of life?
Jennings accepts and completes the assigned task which involves a machine that predicts the future. He is doublecrossed by Allcom and because of what he may know or remember. Rethrick, though his underlings attempt to kill Jennings.
To survive Jennings must bring down Allcom and it's evil leader Rethrick.
--Kenton M Pitts, Resident Scholar
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Affleck is Michael Jennings, a reverse engineer, who is hired by companies to do important work that he cannot be permitted to have any recollection of. The method used to get rid of his memory is a painful process called a memory wipe. Jennings' hardest choice comes when he must decide if $90 million is worth three years of his life. He chooses to go through with the procedure, but much to his chagrin when he goes to cash in his paycheck he discovers that he had earlier refused the payment for some unimaginable reason. Now he has 19 clues with which to figure out what happened and why.
--Christopher Bryan, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Paycheck |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- computer info
Amnesia story
Yes
Romance
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- billionaire/big corp
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
- Genius
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- businessman, big
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- scientific labs
- sewers/subways
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 4 (a fair amount)
Kind of violence:
- nuclear/unconventional war
- mission to destroy something
- mental battles
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- frying (electrocuted)
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- book
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