I have about 2 hours and 20 minutes I will go to sleep. This is the time I have before going back to school. Sigh. If you have not noticed from the 3 short sentences I have written that is not particularly a good thing. My mind is racing and time is closing in. There is nothing that I can do. I am also at this time wondering if there is anything better to do than watching this movie. I don't think so. Now In Time is no perfect movie but, it's fun and definitely worth the time. The premise is amazing and Andrew Niccol has already proved that he is good at sci-fi with Gattaca. This just like that movie is more concerned with how the world effects the charactergetss. However while this is a good movie problems arise in what it does with it's premise. The world that the characters live in has everyone looking 25. See they age right up till then and then they get a genetic clock that they have to fill up with time. If they run out they simply drop dead. This is intriguing at anytime the characters could die. Justin Timberlake plays Will who is poor. At a chance he runs across a man with hundreds of years who having lived too long gives Will all of his time. Will uses this to get into the rich sector and enjoy life. When the so called police of the place don't like that he has gotten that time they go after him and he takes a very rich man's daughter. He figures out that the rich are cheating the system and living while the poor are left to die. He shows the daughter (Amanda Seyfried) this she joins him and they both go on a Bonnie an Clyde/Robin Hood to get time and give it to others. Now this might seem like a cop-out I mean really of all the things that they would do they do this. It still works though. The world is fully fleshed out. There is a lot of detail put into this. There are gangs that take peoples time. There are time missions that give people in need time. It's all built up enough that all of it works. Also the cast sells the hell out of this. Timberlake is nothing special but, he rally works. He's a pretty good actor (See The Social Network) and that is utilized here. That's not to say that his character is fleashed out or interesting. It's just being played well. Actually that's what I noticed with most of the cast. Seyfried, Cillian Murphy. They are all doing good jobs with characters that are not necessarily new. There are cliches in them but, it's just too much fun to watch. That's all I can really say. It has such a good premise that actually pays off with a good but cliche story. However the actors sell the hell out of it and the premise keeps in interesting all the way through. In Time gets an 8 out of 10.
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