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Paycheck
MEANRANK
55/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4636
- IMDb #3899
- Google retired #3134
- Rotten Tomatoes #4479
- Metacritic #4107
- Letterboxd #4536
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4837
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4275
- Metacritic Critics #4019
- Metacritic Audience #3973
- Criticker #3061
- Douban #1354
- Kinopoisk #2463
- AlloCiné #3997
- Trakt #3479
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 27, highest is Google on 74. Critics average 35, everyone else 60.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A brilliant reverse-engineer is hired for a top-secret project that requires him to have his memory of the job erased upon completion. After the procedure, he finds himself accused of treason and murder, with no recollection of the past three years. He must use a mysterious envelope of seemingly unrelated items he sent to himself to piece together what happened and evade capture.
Details
- Director
- John Woo
- Writer
- Dean Georgaris
- Based on
- Paycheck by Philip K. Dick
- Released
- 25 December 2003
- Country
- Canada, United States, Hong Kong
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $117.2M
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