Sunday 29 April 2012

In Time (Andrew Niccol, 2011)

The future: time has become the primary global currency as everyone is down to expire at the age of 25, failing buying their lifeclocks more time through working. Time keeps getting more expensive, though, and population control by the privileged elite is behind it all. It's Logan's Run with a more ludicrous premise then if that were possible, and director Niccol has been in a dystopia not too dissimilar from this one before with the superlative Gattaca. The sense of tension created by the protagonists' constant race to stay a step ahead of termination is effective, but it's heavily undermined by having the bizarrely popular charisma black hole Justin Timberlake play the man defying the wicked system.

5/10

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