Wasting Time...

Rating: 6/10 (3 December 2011)

This movie started to go downhill when the "action" began to kick in the middle. The first half of the movie is intriguing: exploring a society where wealth is built on the time each individual has to live but when the plot starts to roll with the chasing, the shooting, the romance etc it gets too predictable and boring...
This is what annoyed me most in the movie (spoilers of course!):
1. It looked like Amanda Seyfried's character was going through her rebellious teenage crisis and was participating in the whole dystopia robin hood action to annoy daddy: acting like a spoiled little rich girl.
2. The 2nd thing that annoyed me is that Timberlake character's plan was stupid and short term oriented. His idea of bringing the system down was to steal time from the rich and give it to the poor, so basically: provoking on the long term inflation (the rich classes are still well off then!), collapsing the economic system and not solving anything because they would still have those frigging timers on their arms! As everyone is still dependent on time when they use up all the time Justin Timberlake's gives them, what's next? The movie never questions who is behind the timers, who controls them, how they are implemented on babies, how to get rid/hack them. All the characters accept their fate and the "solution" of Timberlake's and Seyfried's character are reinforcing this behavior and messing up the whole economic system without proposing an alternative.
i get that in the future there is a necessity to control resources, by increasing the death ratio of people from the poor social classes... but in any case, i think that Timberlake's character is not changing anything in the society portrayed in the movie.