See it if you have time to kill

Rating: 4/10 (4 November 2011)

I saw a trailer of the movie some time ago, and I waited it since. I found the whole "time" idea interesting and philosophical, simple and yet so innovative. So I went to see this movie with very high expectations. But all that changed after watching the first ten minutes of the movie. My fist disillusion was the acting, which was poor to say the least. No one gave me the impression that they really care about the time they have, the actors were rather like the characters of a computer game. There was no attraction between the two main characters and the director tried to save the most dramatic scenes by choosing large angles rather than focusing on people. But maybe all that was because of the poor script. I don't understand how can you fail starting with such a good idea, but Andrew Niccol did. He tried very hard to make the life of his characters miserable and they concentrated so much on how to survive one more day that the denouement seemed random. Maybe it should have remained just a trailer. After all, Justin needs just four minutes to save the world...