Good looking two dimensional sci-fi thriller that is just perfectly serviceable.

Rating: 5/10 (21 August 2019)

In Time is about a future where people stop ageing at 25 and must work to buy themselves more time, but when a young man finds himself with more time than he can imagine he must run from the corrupt police force to save his life.
In time is a Great recession parable that has standout cinematography and dialogue that suggests the screenplay started out as a satire and got lost in transition to being a straight up suspense thriller.
Justin Timberlake gives a matinee level performance for a matinee level movie so i can't really complain.
What also makes In Time kind of forgettable is the lack of history this dystopian future has. There is no reason given or even hinted at how things got to the way that they are where time is the new currency. This does make it feel more timeless, no pun intended, which aids the screenplay's obvious attempts at being a parable like i said. It's understandable why they did it, but something visceral was lost in achieving something cerebral and sorry brah, this is a Hollywood thriller. That don't fly. This would probably explain why the film did not do as well as expected.
In Time has decent if muted performances, fantastic cinematography and storytelling that is kind of hollow given the premise. It fits perfectly within the niche of a low key Hollywood sci-fi thriller.