Drags on for 12 hrs .. oh wait .. it was less than 2 hrs

Rating: 4/10 (29 December 2011)

An interesting twist to Logan's Run and turns into a sci-fi version of Robin Hood and Maid Marian while attempting to wreck the world's economy. Rather than an automatic death sentence at the end of your time ala Logan's Run .. time can be bartered giving some very long lives. But the idea that the way things work .. upping the cost of things .. raising interest rates .. to keep the population in check .. that's the secret? I guess these people are really really stupid not to be able to figure that out without being told.
The story development seems to take way too much time and there was no feeling of suspense until about the last 20 minutes or so.
The ending was predictable with only a couple of choices to be had. Kinda like painting yourself into a corner with little room to wiggle or twist out of it.
The idea of time becoming the future currency of commerce seems like a logical step. As does the idea of keeping the number of people alive at a manageable level .. although there would be better ways in which to keep the population explosion at a minimum rather than killing them off when they ran out of "money". Money equating to time in this case.
I would think that an idea of both reversible and permanent sterilization procedures would be a far better solution to maintain the population. But then these folks are probably too stupid to have thought of that. Just like they couldn't figure out that with everyone basically being immortal would cause a population explosion the likes of which everyone would die within a few years due to simple starvation.
Actually .. at the time it became possible to become immortal at age 25 .. but you might die if you ran out of time .. I am sure there would be an insurrection to end all insurrections the moment this plan as outlined in this movie were put into place. And what about being able to counterfeit the time? I mean .. it's simply a tech device implanted in you right? So there would also be "hackers" into the tech device.
So in the final analysis .. dumb idea .. dumber people.