I remember when my husband and I first saw commercials for the movie In Time on TV. The movie looked really good. My husband is a hard person to impress when it comes to movies, and even he thought the movie looked good. We both couldn’t wait for it to be released on Blu-ray/DVD so that we could check it out.
In Time will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on January 31, 2011.
In Time stars Justin Timberlake as Will Salas. Him and his mother (played by Olivia Wilde) live in the “slums” where people hav to work long and hard just to get by.
They live in a futuristic world (presumably Earth) where everyone is genetically altered to age until they are 25 years old. This would explain why Olivia Wilde, who is close in age to Justin Timberlake in real life, plays the part of his mother. The moment you turn 25 a count down clock appears on your arm, giving you exactly one more year to live. That might seem like a lot, but it’s not. Everything you do ends up costing you “time”. Time is their currency. For example, if you want a cup of coffee it will cost you 4 minutes of time off of your life. Your rent could cost you a month’s worth of time. It varies.
If you are luck enough to have a job it could earn you more time (not much, maybe a day at best). Many people literally live day by day in this film.
It is possible to give other people your time by griping their arm. The local mission tries to give out time as often as it has any to spare (which is next to never).
One day tragedy strikes and Will finds himself a lone. One evening he meets a mysterious man who has 100 years worth of time, which would make him some what immortal. However he doesn’t want the time. He feels he’s lived too long as it is and just wants to get rid of it.
After helping the mysterious man escape some thugs who wanted to steal his time, the stranger passes all his time off to Will before let his own time run out. Will could not save him before he passed away.
Having all of this extra time prompts Will to enter Greenwich, a rich and powerful time zone where everyone seems to live forever. There he meets Sylvia Weis, the beautiful daughter of one of the most powerful people in Greenwich. Soon afterwards Will learns some important information about what is going on and why some people are literally living forever while other people are dying because their time is up.
Together with Slyvia, the pair go on a terror spree, robbing time from the rich and giving it away to those who need it the most. The whole time they are being chased by the Time Keepers (Police) and thugs who are trying to steal their time and collect the reward.
I don’t want to give away too much of the movie. If you are interested in learning more pick up a copy of In Time, available on January 31, 2011.
I thought this was an interesting movie, but it did leave a lot of unanswered questions. I am curious to know when was this movie suppose to take place (how far into the future) and whose silly idea was it to genetically engineer people to age to 25, then only have a year left of time before they die. It’s just a very odd concept.
The movie did get me thinking a lot about what would I want to spend my precious time on. If I only had one year left of time I would not waste it on frivolous things. As much as I love coffee it’s not worth 4 minutes of time. I also wouldn’t buy a fancy car if it was going to cost me month, or even years worth of time.
In a way maybe this movie is suppose to make you think. Maybe the message is that we should live more simply and not take our time here on Earth for granted. There are more important things to devote our time to.
Cillian Murphy plays the part of the Time Keeper (Police), name Raymond Leon. I think he did a great job playing his part.
Alex Pettyfer (I am Number Four) played the part of Fortis, the thug who was going around stealing time from others. He played his character well too.
I like Justin Timberlake as an actor, but I see him more in comedic roles then serious ones like this. Don’t get me wrong, he did a good job. I just think I prefer him in comedies.
I’d give In Time three out of five stars. It was a good movie, entertaining and made you think. I just didn’t like how it left a lot of unanswered questions and it got confusing at time.
Kimberly
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momznite says
Love a good sci fi flick, but sounds like this is no Blade Runner.
Vianey says
I wonder how much time they’d take from my life for watching this movie? LOL Not sure if I’m that curious about it to see it.
kelleypen says
I saw this in the movies. It had a good premise, but it fell short in a few areas. One, was costuming. Amanda Seyfried with that red wig, heavy makeup, short dress, and insanely high heels running all over the place? Even when she changes her clothes, she still looks like a fashion plate and still wears obscenely high heels. There is not enough back story to explain the whole premise. Even the Javier character (the main time cop guy reminded me of Javier from Les Mis) needs more explanation and he had more back story than most. However, Timberlake did a good job. I was quite pleasantly surprised with his ability.
But the part that bothered me the most was the message. It was all about the poor 99% fighting against the greedy selfish 1%, aka Occupy Wall Street. If I want a political statement, I’ll watch the news. Would I recommend buying it? Heck no. But if it is on TV, it’s worth a watch.
Becca says
I am really curious to see this movie when it comes out on DVD. It looked good and without seeing it, I have to agree that the movie might make me think about living a simpler life. Being slightly over 25 though, I would hate for my life to be over already!
Auriette says
I’m a little curious about the movie. I had some of the same questions you’ve raised here after seeing the trailer. Today, filmmakers don’t see a lot of need to explain things; you’re just supposed to accept it, which is why movies like “Inception” can work.
I haven’t seen “In Time,” but it strikes me as one of those concept films like “Indecent Proposal” that asks a “what would you do” question. What would you be willing to do to live longer? Or forever? I’m interested in seeing it sometime, but I’m not expecting it to be great, and your review kind of confirms what I was already thinking.