In Time (MC: 53, RT: 39%)

[Jinn]

Didn't see a thread yet, enjoy.



Interesting concept, I will be looking forward to seeing this.

[aduidarnenye]

Looks interesting. I'll probably go see.

[Daydreamer]

THANK YOU! I heard about this like 4-5 months ago and forgot the name. You have no idea how incredibly hard it is to google things like "movie time is money" to try to find this film...

[Thoronas]

Neat concept for a sci fi film. Reminds me of Logan's Run in that it's connecting age and society. Definitely going to check it out.

[Overburn]

I hope this is a White Collar/Mad Men crossover movie.

[Mots]

I hope this movie is good. The concept seems cool enough and they have a ton of relatively well known actors in it.

[Tyche]

The writer/director (Andrew Niccol) also wrote and directed Lord of War and Gattaca and wrote The Truman Show, all excellent flicks, so it should be decent.

[Fievel]

Can not wait for this movie, saw the trailer a week or so ago. I'm not the hugest fan of Justin Timberlake as an actor, but the concept for the movie is great.

[Mytiwar]

I love it when they make movies with actual original ideas instead of feeding us the same shit over and over again. Most likely will go see, trailer picked my curiosity.

[Kwijiboe]

Like the concept. Make Cillian Murphy the protagonist and I'd be interested. Make Justin Timberlake play the part of the best friend or something. That's all he's good for.

[BadKarma]

Do want based on premise.


Really fucking want because of Amanda Seyfriend, JT, and Cillian Murphy.

[aduidarnenye]

Saw the theatre trailer for this today. Really looking forward to it. It looks really good. I like these psychological sci-fi thrillers that have been coming out lately. Movies that look futuristic and sleek with lots of action but make you think.

[Tajin]

Seems like the matrix without the dragon ballin, which is not bad considering what I've seen this year

[MaachaQ]

Doesn't sound that great from this review, but I still want to see it

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/450586...entertainment/

Despite intriguing premise, 'In Time' gets old fast
Slickly-made sci-fi thriller looks good but lacks spark, chemistry

Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried are on the run and running out of time in "In Time."
By TODD McCARTHY
Hollywood Reporter

It's refreshing to see a low-tech major studio science fiction film in this day and age, one in which the only physical manifestation of its futuristic setting is a glowing digital clock emblazened on everyone's lower arm that offers a running tally on how much time they've got to live. As novel and absorbing as "In Time" is in several respects, however, Andrew Niccol's latest conception of an altered but still recognizable future feels undernourished in other ways that are not as salutary, preventing the film from fulfilling its strong inherent promise. The imperiled-lovers-on-the-run action format with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried heading an insanely attractive cast should produce decent mid-range box office totals.

Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki
Director: Andrew Niccol
Run time: 1 hour, 49 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13 for violence, some sexuality and partial nudity, and brief strong language

In fact, it is hard to think of another film with such a uniformly striking lineup of actors; when, in the opening minutes, you have to adjust to the fact that Olivia Wilde is playing Timberlake's mother, you know the casting is skewed in a very particular direction, one dictated by the story's very premise: At this unspecified moment in what in sure looks like, but is not identified as, Los Angeles, the aging process stops at 25. Giving new currency to the quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin, “Time is money” has literally become the motto of the society. Rather than striving for financial gain, personal ambition is directed entirely at acquiring more time; the “rich” have stored up thousands, even millions of years, while the poor work, borrow or steal to get enough just to make it to tomorrow. But when your arm clock ticks down to zero, you're a goner.

The specifics of this are inevitably intriguing; a phone call costs you a minute of your life, breakfast in a fancy restaurant runs eight-and-a-half weeks. You can trade time with others just by locking arms but can be robbed the same way. At the outset, ghetto-dwelling Will Salas (Timberlake) is the inadvertent beneficiary of this exchange system. Popping into a bar where the clientele look like models for a mixed photo shoot for Maxim and GQ, Will is eventually bestowed with 100 years by a world-weary 105-year-old (Matt Bomer) who sums up the societal inequity of the system by observing that, “For a few to be immortal, many must die.”

Devastated at his inability to save his mother with his newfound riches, fueled by the old man's weighty parting admonition — “Don't waste my time” — and concerned that having so much time on his arm has made him a marked man, Will escapes from so-called Dayton (downtown L.A. by the concrete river) and makes his way to New Greenwich (Century City to the rest of us), where he shortly ends up in a casino playing for time opposite Philippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser), whose holdings can only be measured in eons; so completely is time on the side of the wealthy that they have truly become the idle rich. Will also eyes Weis' daughter Sylvia (Seyfried), a spoiled girl constantly surrounded by bodyguards who just might possess a hitherto unstirred rebellious streak.

Before long, Niccol morphs "In Time" into a yarn that borrows liberally from "Robin Hood" and "Bonnie and Clyde" as Will and Sylvia race around determined to steal from the rich and give to the poor. They are pursued not only by “timekeeper” cop Leon (Cillian Murphy), who's spent years enforcing the system while, pointedly, staying alive only on a per diem, but by the menacing “Minute Men” — or, in another filmmaker's phrase, time bandits —thieves led by a wacko (Alex Pettyfer) who enjoys draining his victims of their last remaining seconds.

The film's themes presciently merge with the “haves/have-nots” disparities behind the current Wall Street occupation and related protests, and the desperate couple-against-the-world set-up has an enduring appeal. Unfortunately, as the film moves along, its brisk pace notwithstanding, too many issues come to weigh against it. As cleverly conceived as it is, the time-for-money substitution leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Other than for Leon and a few flunkies, there are no authority figures visible or alluded to. Who runs the country, the city? Is the rest of the world like this? How did the aging process get halted? Given so remarkable an achievement, why are there no other comparable technological advances? Why are all the cars customized early 1960s Lincoln Continentals, Jags and Cadillacs?

Speaking of the 1960s, one of the film's most arresting touches it to give Seyfried face-framing hair that's straight Anna Karina/Brigitte Bardot/Elsa Martinelli circa 1963. It's a great look for Seyfried, who gets to pout a lot early on before joining forces with the boy from the other side of town. All the same, the couple doesn't generate much heat, which speaks to a greater shortcoming: As it centers on lovers who throw all caution to the wind to live intensely for a time on behalf of a cause greater than themselves, the story desperately needed to be told with urgency in a free-wheeling, vital, lyrical style with a fatalistic overlay, something achieved in films such as"Bonnie and Clyde," "Pierrot le fou" and "Thelma and Louise," for starters. Niccol's approach is too grounded and prosaic for such a spirit to take hold either with the camera or the actors, who run a lot but never together in a way that conveys their resolute connection. A more exalted, even delirious musical score would also have raised the stakes.

Timberlake capably carries the film but a glint of true rebelliousness, of a slightly unhinged element in his character's makeup, could have nudged the performance to another level. Seyfried, too, would have benefited from being further pushed. That everyone looks terrific is part of the point, but Murphy is able to provide a welcome suggestion that his character has seen it all and is wearing down, while Kartheiser's baby-faced visage and amused smile supply an extra layer of delight.

Working within the tight conceptual frame, ace cinematographer Roger Deakins enhances the real Los Angeles locations (including the CAA office building, which serves as Kartheiser's headquarters) as well as the creations of production designer Alex McDowell and costume designer Colleen Atwood.

Copyright 2011 The Hollywood Reporter

[aduidarnenye]

I saw some bad reviews too. Mainly focusing on Timberlake's inability to act. I will still go see because I think the concept is fascinating.

[aduidarnenye]

We saw it this afternoon. I don't think it was awful, but it wasn't amazing. I would say it was okay. I would probably wait until the DVD came out but certainly give it a watch when it does.

Timberlake was a bit wooden, but he suited the role. Seyfried was quite good in her role. She gave it all she had. I did think all the running in platform shoes with six inch heels was a bit unbelievable. The fellow who played the Timekeeper was quite good but his motivations for what he was doing were muddled and his last scene was a bit anti-climatic. The bad guy didn't have enough gravitas to pull off 100 year old bad guy who looks 25. The gangsters seemed a bit out of nowhere and pointless.

The movie looked okay if a bit dreary (but not in a Bladerunner way, more like a washed out way). I couldn't understand how they had advanced genetics to the point where people were immortal but cars were still running off combustion engines. Also, I didn't understand why, if they had a population problem, did they (a) not have super strict birth control policies, and (b) continued to let everyone be immortal (if they had time).

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the fact that the movie turns into a bank heist "Bonnie and Clyde" movie half way through was a big confusing and rather pointless.

I also didn't understand how Johnny Galecki managed to drink himself to death in about a day.

The movie felt unfinished at the end. Nothing was really resolved, including a bunch of huge plot holes.

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I didn't understand why it was so damned easy for Timberlake and Seyfried to upset the system that much, that quickly and why no one else had ever done it before.

I dunno, the concept is fascinating but I think that most people would be happier just waiting until they can watch the DVD or torrent it.

[Fievel]

Saw it, overall I enjoyed it but there were several points in the movie that I just rolled my eyes. Writing was pretty bad, terrible in some parts. Justin Timberlake of course didn't do great in the roll he played, it really just doesn't suit him.

Overall it was corny with poor writing and bad acting, but because the story was somewhat original and Amanda Seyfried is hot as shit, it was okay.

[aduidarnenye]

Really? I felt that Timberlake did okay in the role of everyday working stiff. He lacked in emotion and versatility but he looked the part. The bit with him and his mother was a bit creepy though.

[Odesseiron]

I saw this today. My friend and I laghed at how bad some of the plot holes were in this. They are fucking gaping. I don't think I've laughed so hard at a movie since Horrible Bosses. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it for what it was, but the direction was awful. It also felt like there were a whole bunch of scenes that should have been filmed or left in the movie completely cut. There was no kind of transition between some of them. I'm no critic, but anyone with some common sense can see these flaws. Definitely not a must see movie, but as a rental or cable movie it's fine. Amanda Seyfried is pretty hot too. Also if Olivia Wilde was my mom looking like that, I'd probably have to bang her.

[Fievel]

It was more so just the way he said some things that was terrible, and in certain scenes like

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the entire scene where they're running from the time keeper, where he jumps out the window and such. Everything he said during all of those scenes just came off as so corny and not sincere at all.