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We go in hard with:
In Time (2011)
I was pretty surprised by this film. Starring Justin 'Rock Your Body' Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, I saw the trailers and thought 'oh, that looks an interesting premise wasted'.
Turns out I was only half correct in my judgemental way.
It is a film that does carry a reasonably interesting premise, that time is currency. It sounds cliched but in the film the idea is actually explored in surprising depth, with wages, services, gambling being done with time. It's an oddly futuristic world, where almost everything is identical apart from the times glowing on peoples wrists and that old cars make hovering sounds even though they are on wheels.
The idea that time can be transfered from physical contact sort of makes sense and the idea of stealing time from one person (as Alex Pettyfer's mob boss does) is quite neat.
The actual story itself is a pretty heavy handed 'Rich thrive, poor die' deal which has been done better elsewhere but it allows Justin Timberlake's Will Salas to get suitably angry and to attempt to rebalance the world almost single handedly, helped out only really by rich kid Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried).
So the story is not as good as I'd have hoped considering the potential boundaries offered by the central premise could really offer a genuinly interesting and subvertive look at commodities and life but instead we've got a pretty good, relatively simple sci-fi/action film which looks fantastic (I'm super serial, the glowing clocks are cool!).
In terms of the cast, JT is actually pretty likeable, not Cillian Murphy good (who is pretty good in this film) but better than Alex Pettyfer's slightly awkward English mob boss. Olivia Wilde is pretty underused and her last scene is really really dumb, which is a shame. It's meant to be really sad and so on but it just didn't work for me.
All in all however, this is not a terrible film. You can find better films that have a similar message and frame the whole argument better but the premise is interesting and well fleshed out enough that the film's flaws do fall into the background of this enjoyable film.
Trailer:
Speaking of trailers, I have come across two more which have interested me.
The first, from one of the most talented contemporary South Korean directors, Kim Ji Woon comes a fun little action film starring a fun little action star called Arnold Schwarzenegger. The script seems to enjoy having Arnie in it and all in all, it looks like potentially great fun:
The second trailer is the intense as anything red-band trailer for End of Watch, a gripping look at LA Police and it looks to be very good:
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