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	Paycheck (short story) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paycheck is a short story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, written on July 31, 1952 and first published in Imagination in July 1953.
		The story was later made into a 2003 film starring Ben Affleck.
		The Dead Past, a short story by Isaac Asimov first published in 1956 (three years after Paycheck), about a machine which views the past.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paycheck_(short_story) (230 words)

	Motion pictures based on work by Philip K. Dick - Paycheck
		"Paycheck" the story is available as part of the collection, "Paycheck and 24 Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick", published in 2003.
		In this story, I got to thinking that there are times in our lives when having a dime to make a phone call spells the difference between life and death.
		Highly paid for his work, Jennings expects to earn $90 million for this latest 3-year project, but upon completion of the job, instead of a big paycheck, he is given an envelope full of random objects and told that he has agreed to forfeit all payment.
	www.philipkdick.com /films_paycheck.html (318 words)

	The Duck Speaks » Paycheck
		The man presents an unusual paradox for most filmmakers, in that his story hooks are often extremely commercial (today’s, involving lost memory and mysterious objects, is killer), while the actual plots themselves are too labyrinthine and esoteric to translate well to the screen.
		“Paycheck” is one of Dick’s earlier stories, published in 1953- the same year as “Second Variety,”; and it’s possible to see a connection between the two.
		The Security Police from the story wouldn’t’ve hesitated, but the police in the movie, led by Joe Morton, aren’t actually supposed to be villains, just guys who occasionally let their view of the ends override their reservations with the means.
	badmovieplanet.com /duckspeaks/reviews/2005/paycheck (3826 words)

	Paycheck (2003): Reviews
		Paycheck is one of those movies in which all the ingenuity went into the original idea and none into its execution.
		Paycheck is too smart for a mindless actioneer, and too slick to capture the full moral weight of Dick's dystopia.
		Paycheck is a terribly muddled mess, a Hitchcock homage (with generous, obvious nods to The Birds, Strangers on a Train and North by Northwest) by a great filmmaker trying to say a great deal with so very little.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/paycheck (1154 words)

	MOVIE - PAYCHECK - Review Rating $$$$$ 1/2 (OUT OF 10)
		Paycheck is proof that not every adaptation of an author's work will succeed equally.
		Paycheck is a poor man's Minority Report despite both movies being based on stories by the same author.
		By that time Paycheck is in full action movie mode and barely stops long enough to insert the compulsory "gee, this may not be such a good idea after all" scene.
	radio.weblogs.com /0108788/stories/2003/12/26/moviePaycheckReviewRatingo.html (523 words)

	Images - Paycheck
		Philip K. Dick's short story "Paycheck," upon which this movie is based, works like an allegory, but movies are much more literal than books.
		When he tries to pick up his paycheck, he learns that at sometime during the past three years he signed away his rights to any compensation for the project.
		However, in Paycheck, Woo is less concerned with creating a convincing alternative vision of the future than he is with showing us Affleck running from one location to the next, dodging a hail of gunfire.
	www.imagesjournal.com /2003/reviews/paycheck/text.htm (981 words)

	The Least You Should Know About Outlining Your Short Story
		Because an outline is the foundation of your story, a framework on which to build a solid, cohesive tale.
		A student in a writing workshop had written a short story about a surgeon who, after his best friend's daughter dies under his knife, chooses a road of alcohol and self-destruction that ultimately kills him -- a man-against-himself story.
		The answers to these kinds of questions will tell the writer how profound her story is. If the problem simply is "surgeon loses patient," this may suggest a technical day-in-the-life story devoid of emotion and depth.
	www.massucci.com /Articles/Outlines/outlines.html (1618 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Paycheck [2004]: DVD: Ben Affleck,Aaron Eckhart,John Woo,Uma Thurman,Paul Giamatti,Colm Feore,Joe ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Paycheck is a disappointing and sometimes frustrating film because it clumsily toys with a number of potentially brilliant ideas without really knowing what to do with them.
		Paycheck is (another film) based on a on a Philip K. Dick short story.
		The story (or at least the central idea behind the story) is strong: it follows an engineer (played by Ben Affleck) who works on secret projects and after he has completed the work he has his memory wiped.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Paycheck-Ben-Affleck/dp/B00021Y986 (1458 words)

	Paycheck - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		He's got at least one of those in Paycheck, a film whose reason for being is so utterly confusing that the entire film is now being explained in its television commercials.
		That's sorta kinda what Paycheck is about but, when push comes to shove, this was half an idea from SF writer Philip K. Dick, who knew it (because he didn't flesh out this 1953 short story into a full novel length, as far as we know).
		Paycheck could have been a great mystery, as Jennings tries to figure out what each object means to restoring his memory and keep the hell away from evil men who work for evil rich men who out to kill him, but it's not.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive03/paycheck.html (886 words)

	Paycheck
		Paycheck dumbs down Dick and then takes away many of the big explosions Woo likes, giving a lesser amalgam of the two; still enjoyable, but without any depth of meaning.
		Paycheck also comes out relatively quickly after The Bourne Identity, a better film with a similar story structure.
		Paycheck becomes a race for Jennings to figure out what each item means, and what he exactly he worked on.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/paycheck.html (646 words)

	PAYCHECK - WIDESCREEN DVD
		The problem with Paycheck isn't really that it's not well thought-out or that it's possibly the first Woo action film to be genuinely boring from start to finish, but that Woo seems to have replaced his joy of genre (and genius within the medium) with a scrabbling desperation to manufacture what used to come naturally.
		Though the premise, taken from a Philip K. Dick short story, is nifty in a Memento sort of way, the problem remains that once Jennings changes the first thing in his possible future, the remaining nineteen items would most likely be useless.
		Paycheck is bad by itself, but immeasurably worse for anyone who used to revere, and for good reason, Woo as something of a national treasure.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/paycheck.htm (745 words)

	DreamWorks SKG Fansite-Paycheck
		A science-fiction, mystery-thriller based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, Paycheck will be filmed entirely on location and on sound stages in Vancouver, Canada.
		But upon completion of the job, instead of a big paycheck, Jennings is handed an envelope filled with random objects and told that he has agreed to forfeit all payment.
		The screenplay is by Dean Georgaris based upon a short story by Phillip K. Dick.
	www.dreamworksfansite.com /paycheck/nov2003.php (648 words)

	Paycheck movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		Paycheck is set in the future where a man has had part of his memory erased and has to try and discover where he has been for the last two years.
		When he tries to collect his paycheck, he finds he had previously signed a release replacing the money with a bag of random objects, and is based on the short story by Philip K Dick.
		Paycheck will centre on a man who has part of his memory erased and begins to find clues to his whereabouts for the past two years.Paramount are producing Paycheck.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/p/paycheck.shtm (1338 words)

	WNRN 91.9/88.1/89.9 FM
		When adapted from Phillip K Dick’s short story, more effort was placed on beefing the film up with action scenes and sappy dialogue than exploiting the genuinely interesting premise.
		Unfortunately the story is understated in favor of action which makes Paycheck look more like The Bourne Identity starring Ben Affleck.
		Paycheck is a film to be written off as just another dumb action flick without any redeeming aspects save the stifled story.
	wnrn.rlc.net /docs/91sec/paycheck.html (235 words)

	SF Signal: Paycheck, The Movie
		Paycheck is the latest Philip K. Dick story to be turned into movie.
		While the short story this film is based on is quite good, the film version, just based on the trailed and the synopsis, doesn't lead me to believe that Paycheck will be another Minority Report in terms of quality.
		Paycheck the short story is not an action, shoot-em up.
	www.sfsignal.com /archives/000058.html (854 words)

	Paycheck DVD (2004) (1 Disc) (UK) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Paycheck is a short story by science fiction writer Philip K Dick, involving an engineer, who, after working two years on a secret project, had those two years erased from his memory.
		Paycheck aspires to follow in their footsteps: an engineer routinely agrees to have his memory erased after every job so that he doesnt know what hes done.
		In 2002 it was announced that he was engaged to actress/singer Jennifer Lopez & the relationship between the two received an extremely ham-handed treatment by the entertainment media.
	www.dvdark.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /c/prod/qMGSTIL (710 words)

	collectedstories: news: 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Paycheck," the story, is collected in The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford: And Other Classic Stories (Citadel Trade).
		Four short story writers were among 10 recipients of the 19th annual Whiting Writers' Awards for "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise" announced October 30 2003:
		The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories was among the five fiction finalists named on January 13, 2003 by The National Book Critics Circle for its awards announced on February 26 at the New School in Manhattan.
	collectedstories.com /files/storyteller/shortstorynews2003.html (922 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Paycheck' a solid thriller - Dec. 25, 2003
		Everyone earns their wages on "Paycheck," a solid, entertaining thriller with a bounty of silly but fun gunplay, hand-to-hand brawls and car chases.
		Affleck usually is at his best in action flicks, and that's the case with "Paycheck," which does not require much depth from the typically inert actor.
		Eckhart as the villain and Giamatti as comic relief fill their roles as well as can be expected given the story's shallow drama.
	cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/25/review.paycheck.ap/index.html (618 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - Paycheck (2003)
		The latest adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story (following 1982's "Blade Runner," 2002's "Impostor," and 2002's "Minority Report"), "Paycheck" is director John Woo's (2002's "Windtalkers") answer to telling one of the author's science-fiction tales.
		The story can be followed, but in doing so one must experience one too many leaps in logic to get there.
		"Paycheck" is akin to a technically well-made straw house that doesn't have the strength to withhold a gust of wind.
	themovieboy.com /reviews/p/03_paycheck.htm (665 words)

	Paycheck movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Though the devotion is straightforward and pleasant, "Paycheck" is still a lackluster futuristic thriller that is also comprised of the usual choices by director John Woo.
		Based on a short story by science fiction guru Phillip K. Dick and directed by Hong Kong action maestro John Woo, the odds were good but Affleck seams to have caught both of them on a bad day.
		Paycheck is brainless entertainment with a slight hint of plot.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/p/paycheck.htm (2255 words)

	"Paycheck" / review and/or viewer comments - Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Paycheck (based upon Phillip K. Dick's short story of the same title) - Ben Affleck plays the main character Michael Jennings in a movie advertised in the same breath as MI-2, Minority Report and Blade Runner.
		That said, the negatives were that this story line seemed as though it stole the highlights from other sci-fi thrillers such as Minority Report and Mission Impossible.
		Paycheck is a good movie, with surprisingly little language (for a Ben Affleck movie) and no nudity/sex scenes and some moderate violence.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2003/paycheck.html (2298 words)

	Paycheck (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A paycheck is traditionally a paper document issued by an employer to pay an employee for services rendered.
		Recently, the physical paycheck has been increasingly replaced by electronic direct deposit.
		----- Paycheck is also a short story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and was made into a motion picture in 2003.
	paycheck.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (71 words)

	Paycheck
		Based on the celebrated short story by Philip K. Dick and set in a corporate America of the future, Paycheck stars Ben Affleck as Michael Jennings, a hot shot computer engineer who is hired on a regular basis by huge companies to design systems.
		Despite generally negative criticism, Paycheck actually works quite well both as a techno-thriller and as a thoughtful rumination on the nature of reality, and stands as one of Woo's more successful North American ventures.
		John Powell however is a composer who has refined his technique to the extent where in a score like Paycheck experienced listeners should hear the soundscape as an entirely cohesive composition.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /paycheckcd.htm (964 words)

	Paycheck (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jennings must discover what he has been working on in the past two years before his memory was erased, and why he's been accused of murder, but time is not on his side, and he must piece together the clues he left for himself before the Feds or his former employer catch up with him.
		Based on the work of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, Paycheck doesn't live up to other cinematic adaptations of his works such as Blade Runner or Total Recall, and Dick's warped and paranoid futuristic world is unrealised in John Woo's under-designed future.
		This film is ultimately a disappointment which falls short of the intriguing story promised by its trailer, but nevertheless it is a better than Affleck's and Woo's respective disappointments with their previous projects Gigli and Windtalkers.
	us.imdb.com /Title?Paycheck+(2003) (615 words)

	December 2003 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| Paycheck
		Paycheck isn’t on that level, but it has a lot to offer with genuine suspense and killer action scenes.
		Paycheck is a very stylized film with a lot of slick action choreography.
		Paycheck is another big screen adaptation of the great Phillip K. Dick short stories.
	www.blackfilm.com /20031226/reviews/paycheck.shtml (973 words)

	CTV.ca \| 'Paycheck' cashes in on Uma's butt-kicking appeal
		Paycheck, based on a 1953 short story by Philip K. Dick, is all about memory and finding that which is lost.
		Unlike Dick’s novels and short stories, there is a professional sloppiness throughout this film.
		Paycheck may have a number of deep ideas but it comes down to one in the end: Love conquers all.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20031224/paycheck_review_031224 (1236 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Paycheck" Collector's Edition DVD Review by Dennis Landmann
		Writer Georgaris presents action and story elements in a fresh voice, and the mystery of the twelve items pays off rather well.
		Tempting Fate: The Stunts of Paycheck (16:45) is an informative featurette that looks at various stunts in the film, including the "motorcycle chase", the "subway station", and the "hydroponic garden".
		Paycheck features a cool concept and fast-paced script, but there are some flaws as well.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/pq/paycheck.htm (970 words)

	Tranquility Lost: Paycheck Review
		But it's just just John's usual shoot-em up, this is a film based on a short story by Philip K. Dick--a writer who I greatly admire.
		I was actually extremely interested in Paycheck because it was originally a short story by Philip K. Dick.
		Paycheck is a big step to where he once was, but it's not perfect.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /MikeRubino/001678.html (742 words)

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