In Time: is imaginative !!

Rating: 3.5/5

Andrew Niccol’s brand new film “In Time” has a thunderous & attention grabbing plot. After witnessing first 20 minutes of it, I wanted it to reach close to Inception, Source Code & Shutter Island but director never thought about my senses while making it. It is brilliant at its core, very very imaginative and stylish but sadly, just not smart enough to satisfy your hunger for surprises and severe shocks.

One doesn’t age after 25, all humans die at 26, only some lucky ones get chance to live after reaching a mark of 26 years old and most importantly, world is devoid of currencies. Yes, this is the world designed by Andrew Niccol and unsurprisingly, he has tagged it as “distant future”. Don’t know about you but my elder ones always used to utter one famous proverb when I used to waste my time in unproductive work. They used to say: Time is money. Andrew’s elders would have said same to him and he understood it better than me and so he made a film based on that proverb. In the world portrayed by Andrew Niccol, time is money, no seriously. People are born with in-built digital clocks on their hands & the ones who wish to live after 26 years need to lend time from banks and illegal time-lenders. Banks lend time here, of course with high rate of interests. You know how banks are !! In Casinos, one doesn’t have to throw casino token in style to grab attention of anyone; time span notified by their digital clock is more than enough for that. Whatever amount of time one spends, exactly that much amount of time gets subtracted from his/her total life span.

Storyline goes like this: Will Salas (played by Justin Timberlake) is an ordinary worker living an unhappy life who on one fine day is blessed with 100 years to live by a dying man. Time-keeper (played by Cillian Murphy) is investigating about it and in a mean time, Will kidnaps Sylvia Wiss (played by Amanda Seyfried). Will blackmails her father for lending him time and he successfully manages to defend time-keeper & other odds & accomplishes everything he decided to, with ease.  

My favorite scene in the movie is Will catching her mother (played by Olivia Wilde) just when her time’s over. It really is emotional but if you think Olivia Wilde is younger than Justin Timberlake in real life and she can’t play his mother, then it is not.

Film has trademark Hollywood car chase sequences, foot chase sequences, haunting background score, absorbing philosophical conversations (man, they included Charles Darwin also!) and a great concept too. Film lets us down when director instead of exploring the probabilities of concept goes other way round. Justin and Amanda both have acted very well. Justin could have been better but Andrew seemed to be a big fan of his previous works, Bad Teacher & Friends with Benefits. So he unnecessarily induced smooches and by the way who doesn’t like watching Justin Timberlake licking his lips to a charming female lead? But that’s not wise for a film belonging to a sci-fi genre.

At the end I’d say film is very interesting; make sure you don’t miss it. Spend your time, money, energy and full-attention for “In Time”, it is worth.

Lines I loved from the film are as follows:

For a few to be immortal, many must die.

Everyone can’t live forever, where would we put them ?

Too much time in wrong hands can crash market.

I need to borrow a month with interest. Today’s rate: 30%