Did I catch you 'In Time'?, a Quick Nonspoiler #Movie #Review by Kev
In the future, everyone is engineered to stop aging at 25 and to die a year later. The world now runs on time and the wealthy can live forever while the poor literally live day to day.
Working class Will Salas is given a gift of a hundred years by a centenarian who has lost the will to go on but is enamored by Will’s drive to survive and optimistic outlook.
He gives Will only one request; do not waste the time given.
I had high hopes for this film, not only does it have a solid stable of actors, In Time also possesses an interesting seed of a story.
There were so many directions for this movie to go in order to explore this artificially created society, it is amazing that somehow writer/director Andrew Niccol missed them all.
Best known for his space operatic Gattaca, Niccol began In Time in a similar vein, a slow rumination and set up of a world based on the arbitrary value and exploitation of human lives.
Then, as Will escapes during an extended chase, the story runs away and he literally goes off the road into an 80’s style Scifi film car wreck. It is stunning how this particular scene is a metaphor of the remainder of the movie.
I realize that is somewhat of a spoiler, but I have to explain the next sentence.
I am going to recommend In Time.
If you have nothing else better to do, go and enjoy yourself; there are some very entertaining bits beyond the turn into ludicrous.
In Time will develop a cult following because as ‘Holy crap’ as it gets it stays well to this side of camp.
There will be cosplay for this movie if for no other reason than it would be simple to do and the costume designs were really good.
The story will make only the thinnest veneer of sense.
None of the moral questions raised at the beginning of the film will ever be solved let alone visited again in any serious manner.
You will not leave the theater wondering whether or not Apple is developing a set of iArm DNA because ‘that could so happen’.
In Time crosses the line to ‘so bad it is good’ territory and you will be wondering how in the hell this film was ever made.
Ironically, you may find yourself, like me, glad that it was.
