Paycheck (2003)
It's difficult to critique this film without spoiling it to a degree, but let me try: The problem with Paycheck (besides Ben Affleck's dull-boy routine) is in its MacGuffin. Anything could drive the plot. The device that does so here and the implications it leaves on the plot and the double-acrostic nature of Affleck's predicament result in a curiously dead movie -- because of what's been set up, the plot has no urgency and no drive. I know this is all frustratingly vague, but just trust me when I say that the movie's bland and boring.
Grade: C
It's difficult to critique this film without spoiling it to a degree, but let me try: The problem with Paycheck (besides Ben Affleck's dull-boy routine) is in its MacGuffin. Anything could drive the plot. The device that does so here and the implications it leaves on the plot and the double-acrostic nature of Affleck's predicament result in a curiously dead movie -- because of what's been set up, the plot has no urgency and no drive. I know this is all frustratingly vague, but just trust me when I say that the movie's bland and boring.
Grade: C
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