I love science fiction and seeing the previews for this gave me optimism that this can bring something new to the game. For the most part it did but as a whole and not as parts. The movie uses a lot old themes seen in other movies.
Starts off in the projects also known as Zone 12 with each lower number being a better area to live. The people of Zone 12 live day to day and time is the currency in this world. You are born and up to 25 you are free and clear. Once you hit that 25 birthday you are now on the clock and you are given a year that is encoded on your arm. Very much like a bar code. Everything you do as a time price from a cup of coffee, a bus ride or paying mortgage. Once you hit zero you die. Plain and simple.
Will (Justin Timberlake) saves a person from gang of time stealing thugs and has they both sleep waiting out the thugs looking for them his is given the time he has left which is over 100 years. That basically is like you and I have a million dollars. He has a date with his mother and wants to share his new found fortune as shown time can be swapped from person to person. She is seen trying to make it back to him but literally is one second too late and dies in his arms as the clock has run out on her. Will decides to venture into Zone 1 to get payback somehow. He ends up in a high stakes poker game and survives it with just a few seconds to spare. He soon meets Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) and they have an instant connection but due to a situation he ends up kidnapping her. They venture back to Zone 12 to hide from the authorities. She experiences what it feels like living day to day not knowing if you will die the any minute. A total 180 from her lifestyle of endless time. She ends up siding with Will and wants to do right and give time to all the impoverished and basically have wealth distribution. Cue current politics. They take on the people in power ala Bonnie and Clyde. A final confrontation takes place within Zone 1 headquarters with the repercussions seen and felt back in all the lower zones.
Rating: 3.5 / 5 - The movie had an intriguing premise and delivered on most. The action moved at a brisk pace and everything fit into its place. Though this movie is in the future there are a lot references to present time and current conditions and views of the wealthy and poor. Actors were believable other than the fact looking at a physically looking 25 year and being told she is a grandmother. I like the idea of time being a currency as I think you would do what you did day to day differently knowing you would die if you didn't use the time wisely.
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