Review time : In Time.
I saw the trailer few days back and the plot was interesting. the plot is basically set in some distant future when time (from your life) is the currency. Everyone stops aging after 25 and then they get time worth of a year to start their lives (The human body has been genetically engineered for that) . You trade with time ( time from your life), you earn time,you buy stuff with your time and that is how you live your life. Think of it like money one can earn , one can spend ,one can steal as well as one can donate. Rich lives longer and poor dies. The idea of using time from your life as "currency" seemed intriguing. There are few plot holes but I was really surprised (may be due to lack of my own creativity) that someone actually thought of this infeasible but interesting idea.
Anyway I went to saw this movie ,the movie as I expected started off pretty well. First 30 min, they showed how the whole idea is working out, your mother looks as older as you and all. Justin timberlake did a good acting here. The scene where he gets a lot of "time" yet not able to save his mother was touching.
But soon enough movie starts to get more irrational and get stuck into the mix of love, action and robin hood story. Will Salas ( Justin timberlake) and his rich girlfriend starts robbing banks(Time is stored there like cash), and surprisingly the banks seem to have less security than an ATM machine.(which is odd given that the banks actually contain life). With all the robbed time , Mr. Salas tries to be Robinhood distributing all of it to poor(dying) people. you would expect such distribution to cause a havoc amongst people whose life depend on it, but instead it all happens peacefully actually smoother than getting your food in cafeteria. The Time keeper's character seems interesting and given the screen time he gets, it seems he has some important role to play but instead he dies and you know how? because he left his "time" in his car (worried about it being stolen).
The expectation I had with this creative ( and amazing in my perception) plot was that the movie will have an ending where the whole system changes, or they figure out a way to generate time in some way. But nothing that sort of thing happens though movie ends on a good note ,showing no more "timezone" (different classes among people) .I think I loved the plot so much that I wanted to see the movie in more realistic way (of-course realistic in this new world) .
There are few good things as well (other than the wonderful plot). The movie has some fun , fast paced and simple enough to understand. Even though I felt bit cheated with movie not moving in the direction I wanted it to be , I never felt bored. Its definitely not boring. its entertaining . Will salas's acting was good and the way the plot has been set is well thought. Like defining the different timezone based on richness of people (which seemed natural in this world). Rich people afraid of dying due to making "mistakes". The idea of timekeeper is also well thought,whose job is to make sure whole system runs in place and maps to the sheriff in current system. Movie is tight and doesn't drag unnecessarily.
I think the movie is fun, watchable over weekend , when you are not really looking for plot holes (you might not even notice then ,though I told you almost all already ). The only wish I had was that it could have been better with given wonderful plot.
and yeah I think "time is money" would have been a better title for movie.
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