Tonight on Netflix: Unjustly forgotten for 21 years, this science fiction thriller with Ben Affleck

In 2004, after the impossible 2 and the WindTalkers, John Wu continued Hollywood’s adventure with a science fiction trill, Paycheck. Worn by Ben Affleck, Uma Turman and Aaron Eklhart, the film features engineer Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck).

Between SF and Hitchcockian Thriller

The latter works on secret projects funded by high -tech companies. At the end of each mission, its memory is “erased” with a contract to prevent it from disclosing the slightest confidential information. Then he is given an important check.

But this time, the envelope does not contain money that heterogeneous subjects: the employer says Jennings refuses to pay for the usual fee. It discovers that these objects are all the information that relates to its past – the “reset” past whose memory has retained only a small trace.

Only one hope of removing these secrets: the woman with whom she worked and that she loved for three years: Rachel (Uma Turman). Starts against the clock. Jenning has only a few hours to specify the puzzle of his life and escape his ruthless employer’s revenge.

With a $ 60 million budget, Paycheck had the right commercial success, which collected 117 million green tickets around the world. The work is adapted to Philip K. From the novel of Dick of the same name. This recognized science fiction author has captured and inspired several excellent directors, such as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven (Total Recolue) or Steven Spielberg (minority report).

Spectacular work

He was relatively bad when he was released in theaters on February 25, 2004, Paycheck is worth the discretion, especially for his excellent actors and his dantesques action scenes. John Wu, a master in this matter, is never disappointed at this level.

For example, a spectacular motorcycle scene on the streets of Vancouver was carefully prepared by Brian Smrz, director of the second team at the story forum. The latter has used several states -of -ats remote controlled devices, including “Descender”, which, with a simple gesture, allows you to move the attached camera void.

The cables were also fixed to the entire length of the houses to get to the roofs above the side trips. If John Wu was able to set up spectacular action, he still admitted that he could not make a movie he really wanted.

“I was in favor of science fiction elements in favor of Paycheck because there was not too much. I was intended to make a movie Alfred HitchcockSomething was more focused on suspicious and excitement than firearms and shootings, but unfortunately the script was not written in this way. It did not work on suspicious and it was not as ended as I wanted, not Hitchcock. Anyway it was nice to work with Ben Affleck “Said the director, Quoted on IMDB.

Despite John Wu this Mea Culpa, Paycheck remains an effective and spectacular work that should allow a good evening on Netflix, pop corn and knees.