Paycheck (2003) — AI Story Visualization

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Plot Analysis Summary

A reverse engineer must decode his own erased past to stop a catastrophic future-seeing machine.

Story Structure — 4 Plot Phases

The Memory Wipe Contract

Fugitive & Fortune

The Dark Prophecy

Cataclysm & Escape

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.

Directed by

John Woo

Key Cast

Rating: 6.2/10 (2,047 votes)