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In Time
My two pennethworth.
As an admirer of Andrew Niccol's previous films, either as writer / director (Truman Show, Gattaca, S1mone), thought i'd see this.
Based on a futuristic concept where your DNA is programmed to terminate your life on a one-year countdown past your 25th birthday, time is the only currency; utilities, services, goods...all bought with time. The more successful you are / harder you work, the longer you'll live. Therefore, all adults in the movie are stuck around the 25 looking age-range. If you want to live longer, you'll do anything to earn extra 'life'...shown as a countdown timer on the forearm.
It's an interesting enough sci-fi concept, married to an action movie sensibility, and just about works due mainly to a decent performance (for an action flick anyway) by Mr Timberlake. If you don't think too hard about it, the movie is enjoyable enough before it too, starts to outstay its welcome. I found it a bit sketchy, in terms of characters and motives; we could have dispensed with low-level hoods 'The Minutemen' who only served to distract from the 'Timekeepers' (Cillian Murphy and co), and then we have Amanda Seyfried's mysterious tycoon father, who hints at being evil, but that doesn't quite go anywhere.
In terms of visual style, the film has slight echoes of The Island, as well as Gattaca, occasionally cold and sterile with futuristic tweaks to modern day objects, vehicles etc. The central concept and JT's mission to shake up the order of things, got lost along the way as Timberlake and Seyfried's characters became an effective modern day Bonnie & Clyde, with a bit of Robin Hood thrown in. This aspect worked less well than others in the film.
I'd rather have seen the lush Olivia Wilde with a bit more screen time, and much less to and fro-ing between Timekeeper / Minutemen shenanigans, which did get a bit wearisome. I was surprised that there wasn't more effort to explore the impacts of nearest & dearest clocking off early, but guess this would have made it a tad bit morbid.
It's a decent enough sci-fi movie, with occasional bursts of action (how Timberlake became quite such a fighting machine is left unanswered...), and doesn't do JT's quest to become leading man status any harm. Though it doesn't hit Truman Show heights, 'In Time' warrants a watch in a lean weak for film releases.
Rating - 7/10.
As an admirer of Andrew Niccol's previous films, either as writer / director (Truman Show, Gattaca, S1mone), thought i'd see this.
Based on a futuristic concept where your DNA is programmed to terminate your life on a one-year countdown past your 25th birthday, time is the only currency; utilities, services, goods...all bought with time. The more successful you are / harder you work, the longer you'll live. Therefore, all adults in the movie are stuck around the 25 looking age-range. If you want to live longer, you'll do anything to earn extra 'life'...shown as a countdown timer on the forearm.
It's an interesting enough sci-fi concept, married to an action movie sensibility, and just about works due mainly to a decent performance (for an action flick anyway) by Mr Timberlake. If you don't think too hard about it, the movie is enjoyable enough before it too, starts to outstay its welcome. I found it a bit sketchy, in terms of characters and motives; we could have dispensed with low-level hoods 'The Minutemen' who only served to distract from the 'Timekeepers' (Cillian Murphy and co), and then we have Amanda Seyfried's mysterious tycoon father, who hints at being evil, but that doesn't quite go anywhere.
In terms of visual style, the film has slight echoes of The Island, as well as Gattaca, occasionally cold and sterile with futuristic tweaks to modern day objects, vehicles etc. The central concept and JT's mission to shake up the order of things, got lost along the way as Timberlake and Seyfried's characters became an effective modern day Bonnie & Clyde, with a bit of Robin Hood thrown in. This aspect worked less well than others in the film.
I'd rather have seen the lush Olivia Wilde with a bit more screen time, and much less to and fro-ing between Timekeeper / Minutemen shenanigans, which did get a bit wearisome. I was surprised that there wasn't more effort to explore the impacts of nearest & dearest clocking off early, but guess this would have made it a tad bit morbid.
It's a decent enough sci-fi movie, with occasional bursts of action (how Timberlake became quite such a fighting machine is left unanswered...), and doesn't do JT's quest to become leading man status any harm. Though it doesn't hit Truman Show heights, 'In Time' warrants a watch in a lean weak for film releases.
Rating - 7/10.
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7 out of 10 ? some of you are easily pleased i'ld give it a very generous 4.
This film could and should of been so much better , shame.
None of it made any sense tbh.
Also
I had to laugh whilst in the toilets after the film when two young girls were discussing how amanda seyfried's hair and make up managed to stay so perfect after all the running about and not being able to shower :rolleyes: they also wondered whether she was wearing a wig...