IN TIME
R
109 mins
Director: Andrew Niccol
Writer: Andrew Niccol
Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki, Vincent Kartheiser.
If I'm here and you're here,
doesn't that make it 'our time'?
There's nothing wrong
with a feast on "our" time.
-Jeff Spicoli, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMOUNT HIGH(1982)
The year is 2161, payphones still exist, and yes, you can save time in a bottle. What the film is trying to say, is nuanced: All behaviour is motivated by the desire to be immortal. That sounds cool, but no, as much as I wanted there to be a point to this movie, there just wasn't one. Yet, I still believe this movie is worth watching.
Will Salas (Timberlake) 28-year-old man who lives with his (super hot) 50-year old mother, Rachel (Wilde).
Phillipe Weis (Kartheiser), and his 27-year-old daughter Sylvia Weis (Seyfried) live in ritzy, New Greenwich. This particular society is divided into time zones, time zones correlate with prosperity.
Sylvia is an uptown girl, and Will is a downtown man.
There is a gang called the Minutemen (just like that Missy Elliot song). The gang reminds me of the one in WESTSIDE STORY.
Raymond Leon, dressed like the Grim Reeper/Morpheus. His last name is Leon, like Ponce de León (Fountain of Youth). Timekeeper, Raymond Leon (Murphy) is determined to capture Will. Back at the academy he made a solemn vow: to maintain the status quo. He wakes up each morning raging for the machine.
That one guy from THE BIG BANG THEORY: no, not Stephen Hawking. It's Johnny Galecki; creatively, he is really doing too much at one time, he's going to burn himself out.
"For a few to be immortal, many must die."
IN TIME, more like THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. The film explores the myth of upward social mobility in contemporary American society. The proletariat takes what is rightfully theirs and redistribute...time. Oh man, I had you going there — for a moment, you actually thought I was serious .
This film is politically ambiguous, the movie isn't a critique of current economic or political policy.
Pros and Cons of IN TIME
Pros
- Everyone looks like they are 25 years old.
- Those clamshells from DEMOLITION MAN don't exist.
- Entertaining, interesting, and original.
Cons
- The movie presupposes that time actually exists.
- Justin Timberlake.
- Small plot holes.
- No John Goodman.
A stylistic, futuristic Bonnie and Clyde, except it doesn't end as tragically. This film is original, escapist fun, at its very best. If I could turn back time, I would still watch this movie.
'If all things in time, time will reveal'
-Brian McKnight, BACK AT ONE
Final Verdict 85 out of 100
