No Good At All

Rating: 4/10 (14 December 2011)

This movie left me with so many questions. Not questions about the plot, because the plot was very clear; nothing was confusing or hard to understand. It left me only with questions like: "Why is 25 the age they stop at?" "Who the heck authorized this system of currency?" "How in the heck does it even work? They just drop dead once they're time's up?!"
In Time really ticked me off. The gaping holes in it's back story left you assuming things left and right. It was agonizing to watch, because it was interactive; but not interactive like Inception, where you had to pay attention to every single detail. It was interactive because you were forced to guess things. To fill in the obvious blanks that the script and plot-line left sitting there like a duck waiting to be fed. The movie sincerely wanted to be what we would call "a smart thriller. You know, like Inception, the Matrix, Alien? That kind of thing. However, the bad writing and unabridged amateurism displayed by all of the young actors and actresses, left the movie gasping for breath, but still caught under the avalanche of atrocity that it was desperately trying to run away from.
I wish I could say that the acting was on par with what you'd expect from "A-List" actors like Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. Sadly, it wasn't. Becoming an A- lister clearly doesn't take talent any more. Just a pretty young face, and an agent good enough to get you a part in the latest teen-friendly melo-thriller, focused on brining joy to those who aren't that adequate when it comes to things like... well, thinking or speaking or anything that involves using their brain.
It's sad really.... Anyway, don't go see In Time.