In Time

In Time

Rating 4 out of 10

There are times you have to give a movie an E for Effort, but not necessarily an A for the final product.  That is the case with In Time.  The concept is in the future or maybe some other planet (they never really say) everyone has some sort of digital readout on their left arm.  On your 25th birthday the readout starts a countdown.  When it hits zero so do you.  You can buy/earn extra minutes by working jobs for the MAN.    The good part is how you look at twenty five is how you look for the rest of your life.  I'd hate to think I'd be stuck with my bushy head haircut for eternity, but thats another story.  The crazy thing about this system is people can steal your minutes just by holding their arm against yours.  Anything you want from food to rent to a bus ride costs minutes off your arm.

The "rich" are basically stealing the minutes from the poor so they can live forever and the poor die young.  When a rich guy tired of living shows up in the slums where our hero Will lives (Justin Timberlake) ready to end it all he gives away his more than hundred years of minutes.  The timekeepers think Will killed the rich guy for his time.  Off to the races we go.  Soon he hooks up with the MAN's daughter (Amanda Seyfried) and they are on a Bonnie and Clyde mission robbing the Time Banks and giving the minutes to the poor.

I think this could have been a decent movie.  The story just seems like it was a few drafts away from being better.  I don't think Mr Timberlake has the chops yet to carry a movie like this.  I usually like Amanda Seyfried alot.  Here she looked goofy in her bob wig and acted more confused than anything else.  The movie could have used a bigger budget.  It looks like a low budget campy movie.

If you are a big Justin Timberlake fan I would suggest waiting to rent it.