good idea, bad movie

Rating: 4/10 (10 November 2013)

People stop aging at 25 but get only 1 year, after that they time out which means death, time is the currency. An individual can earn more and of course their are inequalities, the people in the ghetto usually live day to day trying to earn hours or even minutes to make a living. While people in the Greenwitch area can live for centuries.
The idea is a great idea for a movie but the execution is atrocious, Justin Timberlake should stick to music videos , his acting is stiff and he has about one face expression. The others actors are not much better except for the Cilian Murphy and Vincent Kartheisser who made an impression as respectively the incorruptible cop and the rich time mogul.
Given that the creators of the movie used a lot of time to set up an interesting universe with parallels to ours (lot of poor so a few rich can prosper...) The story is full of holes , why are time banks so easy to rob, the police (or timekeeper) so inefficient, the time "armwrestling" thing is just ridiculous...
The love story is not really believable or interesting for anyone but for the hormone induced teenagers who get a chance to watch Timberlake without a shirt on.
All in all the film is watchable but could have been much better with a better plot and better actors.