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Paycheck
HONG KONG · 2003

Paycheck

John Woo
memory loss corporate espionage technological thriller identity and betrayal high-stakes mystery
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Synopsis

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

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