Paycheck

(2003)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 2,113 votes

Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Year: 2003

Runtime: 119 мин

Country: Canada, United States of America

Director: Джон Ву

Cast: Бен Аффлек, Аарон Екгарт, Ума Турман, Пол Джаматти, Колм Фиори, Джо Мортон, Майкл Си. Холл, Питер Фридман, Кэтрин Моррис, Ивана Миличевич

Plot

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer who does technical jobs for certain companies and as soon as he is done, his memory of that work is wiped out. Now the longest he has been contracted is 2 months. But now billionaire, James Rethrick offers him a job that would last 2 years, maybe 3, and he promises that he will probably earn 8 figures. Michael agrees. Before beginning he turns in all of his personal effects. When the job is done, his memory is erased and he learns he made over 90 million dollars over the three years. When he goes to claim it and his personal effects, he discovers that prior to the erasure of his memory he waived his rights to the money he earned and that the items that were given to him were not the ones he gave when he began. Later he is arrested by the FBI, who say that he committed some act of treason and murder. It's while he is in custody that he escapes using some the items that he was given. Later he meets with a friend who gives him some information that helps him understand what is going on. At the same time Rethrick sends his people to pursue him for him.