In Time

Year:	2011
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.3 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	3 Have Seen


Director	Andrew Niccol
Selected Cast	Justin Timberlake as Will Salas
	Amanda Seyfried as Sylvia Weis
	Cillian Murphy as Raymond Leon
	Olivia Wilde as Rachel Salas
Soundtrack	Craig Armstrong

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In Time - 20th Century Fox - USA (2012)

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In Time - 20th Century Fox - USA (2011)

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In Time - 20th Century Fox - Netherlands (2012)

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In Time - Deine Zeit Läuft Ab - 20th Century Fox - Germany (2012)

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Time Out - 20th Century Fox - France (2011)

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In Time Time Out - 20th Century Fox - Belgium (2012)

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In Time - Deine Zeit Läuft Ab - 20th Century Fox - Germany (2012)

Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 31st Dec 2023		Rated 7/10 A solid slice of genuine sci-fi. There is a difference (to me, at least), between "sci-fi", as generally understood, and proper sci-fi... ...The difference lies in the the basic story idea. It's not enough just to have some twinkly flashing lights, a fair piece of action, and some: "kerpow!", "Blam!", or other whizz-bang visual wizardry; You've got to have a good idea, that says something about something that could not otherwise have been said but for the fictional science element, or that the use of which, says it more directly, explicitly, and succinctly than could otherwise have been done. (For this reason, in it's original form, sci-fi was termed as: "speculative fiction") This is happily one of the latter. The truly great concept here is nothing less than: Time is money... literally. This is a world where everyone from birth has a clock installed in their arms, which counts down to zero, and then the clock, and indeed, your life, expires. ...You can trade time, purchase with time, and spend time in exchange with others. From this simple, elegant concept (perhaps not a startling new idea, but certainly excellently conceived and executed here) all the implications of this are played out and explored on the substance of the story, and drama: There are the rich - the very rich - who have time to burn, and then there are the poor, who scrape by on minutes, often living by bouncing from hour to hour, day by day, with barely enough to survive on, and from this, there is a social divide, of time-rich districts, where the millionaires live, and the slums, where the time-poor eek out a living. And so the social commentary, philosophy all naturally flows through he story from this. As one, day, a time rich man, who feels he has lived too long, makes his way to the wrong side of the tracks, and donates, or "gifts" a huge block of time to Justin Timberlake's character, before "timing himself out"... This leaves our Justin in a huge quandary, as he is at once made a target for envy and theft by any means by his contemporaries on the slum in which he lives, but also the rich, from the other district, who want that time back in order to preserve the social order "norms", and the excellent Cillian Murphy's "Time Keeper" (cop) is sent to hunt him down. Justin decides to use the time to escape into the rich district, live a little, and maybe upset the clock a little. Here he meets the big bad millionaire, who basically has all, or most of the time in the world, he falls in with the guy's daughter, and after essentially kidnapping her in order to make his escape, they turn into a time based Bonnie and Clyde / Robin Hood style duo. A very powerful concept executed with great clarity, who's implications are well explored. I think this movie has kind of drifted from general consciousness over time (sorry time puns are essentially unavoidable here! :) and as I recall, was only really slightly regarded at the time... it generally blended in with a plethora of similar such movies around when this was... (A lot of which, like this, could probably do with some re-appraisal, as many are good on their own right too!) ...Possibly adding to this lack of being taken seriously was the presence of Timberlake and even Seyfried: She the supernaturally beautiful starlet of Mean Girls fame. and he, the ubiquitous boy-band superstar of the time, it may have seemed that this was just a concocted star vehicle movie, rather than the good movie it actually is. (Both are actually pretty good in this, and deserve more credit) Worth your time. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 19th Oct 2020

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