MOVIE REVIEW - In Time

It's yet another look into the future at the movies and it's not a happy one. Justin Timberlake and Olivia Wilde star in In Time.

In this movie, humans are engineered to only live 25 years, plus one more. After 25 years, there's a clock on your left arm that starts running down to zero. If it reaches zero, you die. But by essentially shaking hands, you can exchange time with others. Time is now the new currency. It's how you are paid, and what you spend to survive. The key to survival is not to let your time expire. So you do what you gotta do to survive. You don't physically age one day past 25, but you can live way past that if you are savvy enough to acquire time and spend it wisely, even though you look 25.

Oh course, there are some who are stealing time. Hoarding it, and those who are in charge of it. This is supposed to be the dramatic part of this movie. But I have to say one thing right now. Make it stop! Please make this whole thing stop! My gosh man, are movies going to get any worse?

I'm not going to indict Timberlake, or Wilde. They do what they do best. Timberlake makes young women take notice, and Wilde looks great here for two hours running, toting guns, and being an action star all while wearing a short cocktail dress. But those are the highlights. This is just silly. Plain and simple - silly. It makes an attempt at a social commentary, and class warfare, but in the end, In Time says nothing of any worth.

This may be some of the worst acting and writing we've seen in a while. The script is putrid, and the movie makers vision of the far distant future is laughable. In what might be a couple hundred years in the future, cars somehow look like custom Dodge cars and trucks from the 1960's and 70's. Plus, the rest of this looks equally as silly. I'm guessing after spending on Timberlake and Wilde, there was not enough dough lefty of the rest of the picture.

In Time. There was no reason to actually make this movie. Hard core Timberlake fans may love this due to lack of perspective. But this is no better than a TNT weekend movie in 3 years.