From PAYCHECK review

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The gimmick in this movie is that Jennings has invented a time viewer, and has used the machine to give himself *exactly the right stuff* so that he can come out the winner in a life and death game. His victory in part seems to derive from his engineering-based belief that he can use the machine to change the future to his benefit, while the villains seem obsessed with making whatever they see in the viewer come true. It is also interesting to observe that he is a reverse engineer who must reverse engineer exactly how he got into a particular very strange situation!

It is interesting to note that Dick has Jennings taking over the bad guy's corporation and using the time viewer to his own benefit, while Woo's updating has Jennings destroying the time viewer and setting out at the very end to make the world a better place. I doubt we'll hear from him again in the movies, but Affleck's Jennings must go down as one of the great engineer- heroes in the true Campbell/Heinlein tradition.

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