'In Time' is a great idea for a movie but is incapable of capitalizing on it. The casting is off balance. The best actors are in the smallest parts and the worst actors are the leads. Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, and Matt Bomer all do great turns but they are in the movie so briefly they can't save it. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried pollute the screen with their terrible line readings and mugging. I will never buy Justin Timberlake as an action hero because of his high-pitched creaky voice, he has no presence, no gravitas. Like a lot of movies 'In Time' doesn't really know what to do with it's great idea. The world's economy is now run on time, if you run out of time you die. The rich can live forever, while the poor live day to day. A big problem is that there is no explanation as to why this happened or what time period were talking about, if it is even in fact earth. A rich guy gives Timberlake 100 years so he goes into the rich peoples timezone. He's quickly caught and the time is taken away which inspires him to go on a crime time spree.
I would have liked to see what he would actually have done with the time, integrating himself in to the rich peoples society. Instead the movie degenerates into a blatant rip off of a combination of 'Bonnie and Clyde', 'Robin Hood', and 'Badlands'. All originality is lost and a great supporting cast can't save Timberlake and Seyfried's wide-eyed shallowness and unwatchability.
Don't See It.
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