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| Engineer Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) willingly undergoes memory erasure after each top-secret project, but his latest job turns ugly in this shiny, yet silly Memento-like thriller. After working for three years on an assignment, he discovers during his erasing process that he's volunteered to accept an envelope full of seemingly meaningless objects as payment. Of course, those objects turn out to be clues he must connect in order to save his own life from the corrupt company that now wants him dead. | |
| Because Affleck's character is a genius, there's no worry that he won't figure out the puzzle, and director John Woo's film reassures the audience of this fact at nearly every turn, thus defusing its power to generate excitement. All that's left are some car chases, which are, much like the plot of the film, forgettable. |
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