Movie
Title -
In Time
Genre
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Science Fiction
Studio
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20th Century Fox
Release
Date -
January 31, 2012
Running
Time -
109 Min
Rating
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3 Golden Bridges
Reviewed
By -
BB
Comments
- - The Film - -
The concept was certainly interesting, Time as currency when it runs out you die. The rich have time in abundance and can live forever, the poor struggle daily. Unfortunately this movie - instead of playing with this very unique concept - quickly dissolves into some silly critique of capitalism with the message being that it's OK to steal from the rich 'because they stole it first' which seems to become the prevailing attitude in our society. The rich and successful are evil...
The concept was certainly interesting, Time as currency when it runs out you die. The rich have time in abundance and can live forever, the poor struggle daily. Unfortunately this movie - instead of playing with this very unique concept - quickly dissolves into some silly critique of capitalism with the message being that it's OK to steal from the rich 'because they stole it first' which seems to become the prevailing attitude in our society. The rich and successful are evil...
In the third act the two protagonists simply resort to stealing time and distributing it trying to bring the system down, ignoring their previous correct epiphany that whatever time they steal and donate the establishment simply will raise prices to restore equilibrium.
I'll set aside the obvious flaws about how easy it is to transfer time from one individual to another w/o any safeguards imagine debit cards w/o pin codes for one account that holds all your money w/o any withdrawal limits and no traceability of who took your money BUT wouldn't it have been way more interesting a premise to work on a solution to disable the clock to bring the system down, or manipulate he clock to give everybody unlimited time? Instead our two protagonist just head over to the next bank to steal more time, which will ultimately lead to their certain demise.
I'd rate the first act of the movie 5 stars, the second 3 and the ludicrous third act 1 star. I give this movie an overall 3 stars because I was still thinking about the concept days later, but the last act ruined what could have made this a fantastic movie...
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