I saw two movies recently that both left the box office pretty quickly and only got so-so reviews; both are from 2003. I caught them on cable and enjoyed both much more than I expected. The first is Paycheck, a sci-fi story starring Ben Afleck. It's based on a Philip K Dick story and as such as some similarities to Minority Report. Affleck plays Michael Jennings a reverse engineer who takes jobs and then has his mind wiped afterwards to prevent him from leaking company secrets. He takes a 3 year job and afterwards find things not quite as he expected and of course with no memory of what he did. In the end, the story basically works and is kinda fun. It doesn't have the budget, the action (though it has some as it was directed by John Woo), or the toys of the future that Minority Report did, but it was pretty good film.
The other film I saw is Confidence. It's a grifter/con film starring Edward Burns and has a Dustin Hoffman and several other recognizable faces. To make up for a glitch in a job, Burns' team has to do a job for Hoffman which is to hit someone else, and of course the cops and feds are involved. At one point Burns says in voice-over that to pull off a con you have to be 20 steps ahead of the mark. This film trys to do that and it's fun, it's not a con that anyone would (or could actually set up, but it's an entertaining movie.
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