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Paycheck is one of those techno-thrillers that take place in the near future and star a big star. The big star: Ben Affleck. The plot of the movie is that in the future when a company hires an engineer (Ben Affleck) to work on a project, they lock him in a room for months, sometimes even years to create their product. Then, once they’ve finished, their mind is wiped of the entire process, so they can’t cheat with other companies, and they have a big fat paycheck waiting for them. Ben Affleck is one of these guys, but one goes wrong…

He develops a time machine, and forgets the entire thing, and people are trying to kill him for it. It’s not a time machine, but it shows the future, and the movie goes on with a lot of Ben Affleck running from the FBI, and a lot of other scary things, and unfolds as a mystery to the climatic ending where the machine predicts that he will die.

Personally, I didn’t like the movie. It was okay - but it just didn’t have anything to it. He just kept on running and uncovering this mystery and it was a fun ride, but just didn’t have the story or emotion that it could of had. I mean, there were some interesting mystery techniques used throughout it, but it didn’t have that special touch of a director doing something unique.

The soundtrack is a quick-paced strings thing that had a few brief themes, that were great for the movie and it’s quality, but just not my style of soundtrack music.

[rating:2.5]