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Right so went to see Paycheck this afternoon.
It stars Ben "Mr J Lo" Affleck and Uma Thurman. Directed by John Woo.
Plot is basically a guy has no memory of the past 3 years. Bad stuff happens. He needs to find out what happened.
The plot itself is quite good, as I would have expected from a Phillip K Dick novel (he wrote it you see). Takes a while for the action to begin though, but it isn't boring.
Affleck isn't a bad actor, he's just not brilliant. He turns in a good enough performance as what is in some ways a Bond like character, though he doesn't have the charisma of them. He's better in Paycheck than in Daredevil anyway. He just doesn't strike me as being nerdy enough to play a hotshot electronics engineer. Don't moan, you find that out really quickly.
Someone a bit more awkward would possibly have been better for the role, which reminded me a bit of Jeremy Northam's in Cypher (best movie of 2003). Still, he does an OK job.
Uma Thurman is too pointy. Her nose, her chin, she looks like an actual bird. Which is a same as from the back she looks nice enough. She does quite well actually.
John Woo is the director. Him of Face/Off and Mission Impossible 2. Nice backgrounds, nice and hi-tech research sort of stuff. However there are some action sequences and the close up fighting remains focussed on the cast meaning the camera moves a lot til I felt a bit sick. That may have been partly to do with a slightly ropey lunch though.
There is also a nice wee chase sequence which Woo handles in a rather nice, albeit over the top manner. He's good at them you see.
All round a good plot and a decent movie but not stunning. Worth seeing though. 6/7 out of 10.
P.S. There was a scene with lots of flashing lights that might well induce fits or something. Just warning you.
It stars Ben "Mr J Lo" Affleck and Uma Thurman. Directed by John Woo.
Plot is basically a guy has no memory of the past 3 years. Bad stuff happens. He needs to find out what happened.
The plot itself is quite good, as I would have expected from a Phillip K Dick novel (he wrote it you see). Takes a while for the action to begin though, but it isn't boring.
Affleck isn't a bad actor, he's just not brilliant. He turns in a good enough performance as what is in some ways a Bond like character, though he doesn't have the charisma of them. He's better in Paycheck than in Daredevil anyway. He just doesn't strike me as being nerdy enough to play a hotshot electronics engineer. Don't moan, you find that out really quickly.
Someone a bit more awkward would possibly have been better for the role, which reminded me a bit of Jeremy Northam's in Cypher (best movie of 2003). Still, he does an OK job.
Uma Thurman is too pointy. Her nose, her chin, she looks like an actual bird. Which is a same as from the back she looks nice enough. She does quite well actually.
John Woo is the director. Him of Face/Off and Mission Impossible 2. Nice backgrounds, nice and hi-tech research sort of stuff. However there are some action sequences and the close up fighting remains focussed on the cast meaning the camera moves a lot til I felt a bit sick. That may have been partly to do with a slightly ropey lunch though.
There is also a nice wee chase sequence which Woo handles in a rather nice, albeit over the top manner. He's good at them you see.
All round a good plot and a decent movie but not stunning. Worth seeing though. 6/7 out of 10.
P.S. There was a scene with lots of flashing lights that might well induce fits or something. Just warning you.
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As I said it was good enough.
Affleck has had his reputation tainted somewhat with the whole J Lo thing. He's just a bit too smooth for the role.
Jeremy Northam or Alan Cumming would have suited it a bit better I think.
Affleck has had his reputation tainted somewhat with the whole J Lo thing. He's just a bit too smooth for the role.
Jeremy Northam or Alan Cumming would have suited it a bit better I think.
I quite fancy this.
And I honestly don't think Affleck's all that bad to be honest. I normally hate that type of actor, but he's alright.
And I honestly don't think Affleck's all that bad to be honest. I normally hate that type of actor, but he's alright.
Right so went to see Paycheck this afternoon.
It stars Ben "Mr J Lo" Affleck and Uma Thurman. Directed by John Woo.
Plot is basically a guy has no memory of the past 3 years. Bad stuff happens. He needs to find out what happened.
The plot itself is quite good, as I would have expected from a Phillip K Dick novel (he wrote it you see). Takes a while for the action to begin though, but it isn't boring.
Affleck isn't a bad actor, he's just not brilliant. He turns in a good enough performance as what is in some ways a Bond like character, though he doesn't have the charisma of them. He's better in Paycheck than in Daredevil anyway. He just doesn't strike me as being nerdy enough to play a hotshot electronics engineer. Don't moan, you find that out really quickly.
Someone a bit more awkward would possibly have been better for the role, which reminded me a bit of Jeremy Northam's in Cypher (best movie of 2003). Still, he does an OK job.
Uma Thurman is too pointy. Her nose, her chin, she looks like an actual bird. Which is a same as from the back she looks nice enough. She does quite well actually.
John Woo is the director. Him of Face/Off and Mission Impossible 2. Nice backgrounds, nice and hi-tech research sort of stuff. However there are some action sequences and the close up fighting remains focussed on the cast meaning the camera moves a lot til I felt a bit sick. That may have been partly to do with a slightly ropey lunch though.
There is also a nice wee chase sequence which Woo handles in a rather nice, albeit over the top manner. He's good at them you see.
All round a good plot and a decent movie but not stunning. Worth seeing though. 6/7 out of 10.
P.S. There was a scene with lots of flashing lights that might well induce fits or something. Just warning you.
It stars Ben "Mr J Lo" Affleck and Uma Thurman. Directed by John Woo.
Plot is basically a guy has no memory of the past 3 years. Bad stuff happens. He needs to find out what happened.
The plot itself is quite good, as I would have expected from a Phillip K Dick novel (he wrote it you see). Takes a while for the action to begin though, but it isn't boring.
Affleck isn't a bad actor, he's just not brilliant. He turns in a good enough performance as what is in some ways a Bond like character, though he doesn't have the charisma of them. He's better in Paycheck than in Daredevil anyway. He just doesn't strike me as being nerdy enough to play a hotshot electronics engineer. Don't moan, you find that out really quickly.
Someone a bit more awkward would possibly have been better for the role, which reminded me a bit of Jeremy Northam's in Cypher (best movie of 2003). Still, he does an OK job.
Uma Thurman is too pointy. Her nose, her chin, she looks like an actual bird. Which is a same as from the back she looks nice enough. She does quite well actually.
John Woo is the director. Him of Face/Off and Mission Impossible 2. Nice backgrounds, nice and hi-tech research sort of stuff. However there are some action sequences and the close up fighting remains focussed on the cast meaning the camera moves a lot til I felt a bit sick. That may have been partly to do with a slightly ropey lunch though.
There is also a nice wee chase sequence which Woo handles in a rather nice, albeit over the top manner. He's good at them you see.
All round a good plot and a decent movie but not stunning. Worth seeing though. 6/7 out of 10.
P.S. There was a scene with lots of flashing lights that might well induce fits or something. Just warning you.
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