Paycheck - A Guest Review
(This review is courtesy of William, my significant other. Thanks, dude!)

Me and John Woo, we're not on speaking terms anymore after this bucket of bilge.

For one thing, it scans like it was edited by some underpaid summer intern rather than a professional. Whatever criticisms one might have of epic fantasy, "Return of the King" was a beautifully edited film, actively assisting the viewer to get through two-to-five concurrent story threads; and after watching three and a third hours of how to do it right, two hours of how to do it wrong felt like a slap in the mouth.

As for the script... after carving away all the scenes of exposition and all the action set pieces, Woo and hack-of-the-first-order Dean Georgaris leave the cast to fend for themselves. Paul Giamatti, as Ben Affleck's nerdy pal, mugs for the camera like he's in an "In Living Color" sketch. Affleck and Uma Thurman aren't given any help in the script to establish romantic attraction (you know, like LINES they can SPEAK to each other), so they're reduced to simpering and twinkling at each other.

And oh yeah ? once again in John Woo's universe it's possible to jump out of the way of a bullet after the gun's been fired. Did somebody mention epic fantasy?