Umpteenth recycling of the Marxist fable - don't waste time on "In Time"

Rating: 2/10 (29 October 2011)

Ugh. Here we go again. Huge amounts of mental and financial (dare I say it?) capital invested in pretentious retelling of the Marxist fable about the bourgeois, the proletariat, inequality of capital, and how redistribution will fix it all. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but...(I was screaming STOP mentally about 10 minutes into the movie).
I gave this movie a 2 for all the neat explosions, gunfire, car chases, and lavish sets. The idea of using time as a metaphor for money also deserves a 2, for minimal creativity, since even Marx's antithesis, John Locke, who predated Marx by a century, taught that property (capital) was created by labor (time spent working).
It has always astounded me that so many people could be fooled by a bitter, envious, perverse man (Marx) who wrote an immense tome on a subject (capital) of which he was clueless, like a eunuch writing a sex manual. After a century, Marxism maintains its perfect losing streak - death, poverty, refugees, falling life expectancy, starvation, about 100 million victims of executions and gulags in China, the USSR, Cuba, etc. Perhaps someday a REALLY brave Hollywood studio will make a movie about this abominable story. Don't hold your breath.
And don't waste your time on "In Time."