A- Scifi Thinker's Movie

Rating: 9/10 (30 March 2012)

Way above average movie about a dystopian future with insightful social commentary. The movie addresses thorny issues like overpopulation and the self serving nature of human kind through a highly unique vision of the future. In the vein of the great cult classics Logan's Run and Gattica.
Timberlake and Seyfried seem to get the movie in a big way. The characters are believable and sometimes unintentionally funny as they are intended to be.
Like Logan's Run, the society falls apart around the central dash and awakening of the two lovers. Wiez Timelenders and the Timekeeper Police have a similar role to the Thinker and Sandmen in Logan's Run. The retro cars have an electric servo-mechanical sound like vehicles in Blade Runner and Gattica.
The society has highly exaggerated inequality that hits the mark perfectly. The super rich ride around in elaborate, retro black limos with perfect looking twenty-five year old bodyguards.
Overall an A- movie that occasionally gets tripped up by pacing and plot.