Paycheck

A rubbish script, terrible acting from all concerned -- including, I regret to say, Uma Thurman -- and Woo's action histrionics uneasily confined to science lab interiors, all conspire to produce a movie of utter redundancy.

This movie just sags, even in the action scenes.

Some remedial script work is in need, and the characters are far from compelling. But the action is up to scratch and it rattles happily along.

There's a sense of treading water about this movie.

Inexpressibly ropey sci-fi thriller joylessly directed by John Woo and based, natch, on a Philip K Dick short story.

A brisk, enjoyable, implausible sci-fi thriller.

...an overly slick and mostly mindless actioner...

Ben can't, however, make Paycheck into the good movie it might have been. That would have required a director more interested in ideas and less interested in things that go boom...

Woo's stylish touches fall flat in this forgettable project

It's not necessarily high brow sci-fi, but it is very accessible to the mainstream eye.