included · Communication

Paycheck

John Woo · 119 minutes

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.

Thriller, Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction, Action

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Communication.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Machine-generated foreknowledge and the objects Jennings leaves himself determine the escape plot's causal structure.

An engineered machine reveals future events, and Jennings uses that foreknowledge to arrange his escape.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan69.0

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance8/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.1/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 96.90 base × 71.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

15 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

Blu-ray

Paycheck (2003)

Compare this edition’s specifications

Release date: May 19, 2009
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Resolution: 1080p
Region / playback: 2K Blu-ray: Region free
Discs: Blu-ray Disc | Single disc (1 BD-50)

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What kind of time-travel story is this?

The scores

Research & sources

Releases & formats

Paycheck (2003)

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Sci-Fi Thrills (2003-2016)

Paycheck (2003)

Paycheck HD (2003)

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