Infamously, "Paycheck" was the last American movie Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo made before leaving the States and returning to China.
Ben Affleck, sadly at his most unlikable, plays a talented engineer at work for a corporation who, once his task was completed, erased his memory of the project. Of course, he’s left himself a series of clues and has to uncover what exactly was going on in the time he worked on the project (spoiler alert: there’s a nasty conspiracy).
In some ways, both the story and the movie play like a Philip K. Dick greatest hits reel (even though the story was written relatively early in the author’s career): there’s implanted memories, visions of a former life (or past self), and corporations greedily competing without any kind of moral guidance.
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