Imagine a future where the biggest currency is time. Forget your credit cards and cold hard cash. Fancy a cup of coffee? That’s 4 minutes. Fancy a suite in a hotel? That’s a few months. 10 minutes with a Hooker? That’s an hour. And it’s not your wallet you’ll be depleting. It’s your life. Besides the timely currency, nobody physically ages past 25. And if you have enough time (sorry ) on your hands (sorry again ) then you could live forever. For most people they are living day to day, trying to earn enough time to live another day.
Enter Will Salas (Justin Timberlake). An honest, hard working guy living in the “ghetto” who ends up accused of murder, yes here comes another pun, and has a whole load of time on his hands. So he ends up on the run taking hostage the daughter (Amanda Seyfried) of a wealthy business man. Hunted down by the timekeepers (Cillian Murphy) and co, who are the local police force, its a will they run out of time affair?In Time is a movie split into two distinct parts. The first part deals with Timberlakes character and follows the story of how he got to end up with a whole load of time (go on then…on his hands) and the second half dishes out the chasing, the shooting and the inevitable. And of course there is the big Robin Hood theme lying underneath the movie throughout.
In Time, while the concept might sound complex, is incredibly well presented to the audience so confusion should more or less be nil. At times, it’s quite clever with some particularly nice touches that will certainly have you on the edge of your seat, at least once. From a performance point of view, Cillian Murphy plays his part really well. He’s entirely convincing, but at the same time he doesn’t look like he broke a sweat. Amanda Seyfried, is probably the most convincing of the entire cast and looks far more natural than her on screen counterpart, Justin Timberlake. Personally, I think Timberlake is brilliant. Not here though besides the action scenes here, he seems to be a little stiff and comes across as trying a bit too hard. The scene with his mother, is incredibly cringe worthy. His performance is adequate at best. The characters though, are likeable and easy to relate to.
The movie itself, looks quite bland. It has a fairly muted color palette and for a movie that has incredibly futuristic concept, the landscape is incredibly bleak and not at all futuristic. Ironically enough, for a movie that seems to be pushing the whole Carpe Diem vibe, most of it’s inhabitants are doing anything but living each day like it’s their last. All that said though, In Time is quite clever and the good far out weighs the bad. It is most certainly, worth your time.
Enter Will Salas (Justin Timberlake). An honest, hard working guy living in the “ghetto” who ends up accused of murder, yes here comes another pun, and has a whole load of time on his hands. So he ends up on the run taking hostage the daughter (Amanda Seyfried) of a wealthy business man. Hunted down by the timekeepers (Cillian Murphy) and co, who are the local police force, its a will they run out of time affair?In Time is a movie split into two distinct parts. The first part deals with Timberlakes character and follows the story of how he got to end up with a whole load of time (go on then…on his hands) and the second half dishes out the chasing, the shooting and the inevitable. And of course there is the big Robin Hood theme lying underneath the movie throughout.
In Time, while the concept might sound complex, is incredibly well presented to the audience so confusion should more or less be nil. At times, it’s quite clever with some particularly nice touches that will certainly have you on the edge of your seat, at least once. From a performance point of view, Cillian Murphy plays his part really well. He’s entirely convincing, but at the same time he doesn’t look like he broke a sweat. Amanda Seyfried, is probably the most convincing of the entire cast and looks far more natural than her on screen counterpart, Justin Timberlake. Personally, I think Timberlake is brilliant. Not here though besides the action scenes here, he seems to be a little stiff and comes across as trying a bit too hard. The scene with his mother, is incredibly cringe worthy. His performance is adequate at best. The characters though, are likeable and easy to relate to.
The movie itself, looks quite bland. It has a fairly muted color palette and for a movie that has incredibly futuristic concept, the landscape is incredibly bleak and not at all futuristic. Ironically enough, for a movie that seems to be pushing the whole Carpe Diem vibe, most of it’s inhabitants are doing anything but living each day like it’s their last. All that said though, In Time is quite clever and the good far out weighs the bad. It is most certainly, worth your time.
