Is Paycheck actually good?

Paycheck sits in the 24.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 24.9% of them.

How does Paycheck compare to similar films?

Within Films · 2000s, Paycheck lands in the 27.4% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Paycheck's score based on?

283 calibrated reviewers stand behind Paycheck's score.

2003

global pct

24.9

Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s

Paycheck

Name: Paycheck
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Released: 2003

Scored from 283 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

24.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

27.4%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles

7.6%

AI-adjusted percentile

283 calibrated reviewers

Summary

A reverse engineer agrees to a lucrative job that requires his memory of the work to be erased afterward. When he completes the assignment, he discovers he has forfeited his payment and instead receives an envelope of seemingly random objects, which he must use to piece together what he did and why people are now trying to kill him.

Paycheck (2003) is a film IMDb files under the action, mystery and science-fiction genres.

283 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 290 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 3,973 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.