Review of In Time (2005) by Filius S — 13 Dec 2015

In Time is the story of the future where instead of money everyone uses time as currency. Essentially how it works is everyone can live forever because of technology, and everyone stops aging at like 28 or something. The trade off is that in order to keep from overpopulating the world with lazy welfare queens, you have a life cap of x when you're born. As you live, your clock slowly ticks down, and instead of working for money, you work to refill your clock. Because of greed and shit, some people essentially get to live forever, and poor people work like dogs and die in the slums when they're young.

Enter Justin Timberlake. He's just your average hard working, good looking, ultra nice and righteous dude who loves his mom. He lives in the poor area, and well, I won't tell you how, but he ends up getting infinite time. He uses this to travel from his ghetto district, to the super rich 1% district, to try and fix the income disparity, and encounters trouble, conspiracies, and a hot chick who reminds me a bit of one of those oldschool porcelain dolls.

TL;DR - 6/10.

The movie is actually surprisingly entertaining for something being carried by JT. The guy who plays scarecrow in Nolan's batman is in this, and he's pretty awesome any time he's in a movie... also the girl in the film has an uncanny valley hotness to her, which is cool. The problem with the movie is it's a bit ham-fisted in its execution, and you end up not really caring about the characters a whole lot, because you kind of feel like you know how the movie will end. Also for something that's supposed to take place in the future/an alternate universe, there's a serious lack of ... future stuff.