Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, who wrote the stories that were turned into Blade Runner, Minority Report and Total Recall, Paycheck stars Ben Affleck as Mike Jennings, an engineer who invents a machine but then agrees to have his memory erased in exchange for a $90 million dollar paycheck. When he “comes to”, he finds that he has mailed himself an envelope full of seemingly random objects, and has a girlfriend Rachel that he doesn’t remember (played by Uma Thurman). And, he learns he also turned down the $90 million dollars, so he turns to his friend Shorty (Paul Giamatti) to help him figure out why.
The man who hired him to invent the machine, played by Aaron Eckhart, doesn’t want Mike to remember what he invented, so he has guys chasing Mike and Rachel trying to stop them from learning the truth. There’s lots of dodging of poorly-aimed bullets, some very cool futuristic technology, and great action from director John Woo.
The special features are a commentary by John Woo, a commentary by screenwriter Dean Georgaris, a featurette about designing the future world that the movie takes place in, a featurette about the stunts, and extended/deleted scenes. Visually, the colors are bright and the sound is excellent, I don’t own the movie on regular DVD so I don’t have anything to compare it to, but it seems like a good choice for a Blu-Ray collection. Pick it up on Amazon.com or in stores.
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It’s been a long time since I saw a truly scary movie. It seems like the horror genre has become dominated by movies that call themselves scary but are really just gory (the Saw movies, the Hostel movies, etc.). I love scary movies, jump outta your seat, hands over your eyes peeking through your fingers SCARY. I can’t ride rollercoasters and I freak out if a fly gets trapped in the bathroom with me, so I get my adrenaline rush watching scary movies.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=045eb826-7f91-44ba-9ad1-1d7534e35496)
I reviewed the original 1951 movie The Day The Earth Stood Still back in December, and in that post I wrote that I wasn’t sure if I was going to like the remake because the original is just so darn good, and because reviews of the theatrical release were so negative.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=e58cf1ed-b3ac-407d-b3cc-84ae2054709a)
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To Catch A Thief
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