Plot has MAJOR holes

Rating: 2/10 (25 January 2012)

Not only is the acting unemotional, the story progression boring, and the graphics/scenery lacking, the plot has terrible holes.
SPOILER ALERT:
OK. My major beef: Why?... Seriously. Why time? I could have been okay with it if in this world this is the way it had always been, but the story is such that SOMEONE started this time-as-money system. But why?
You have the same effect if everyone is immortal anyway and you just kept money as the currency. If you want some people to live in the lap of luxury and some to be poor, just keep money and have everyone live forever. If it's for population control, why not just have everyone who wants to live forever give up the right to reproduce? What was the point in creating this very unsecure (no PIN numbers or anything?) way to judge wealth and value that actually allows someone to kill me in the night by putting their wrist up against mine? If you have the technology to engineer bodies that never age and never die, you can do it without the time limit currency. They keep mentioning that "in order for a few to be immortal, many must die", but I don't buy it. The fact that this was never explained and had no place in any society where this wasn't a natural fact of evolution or whatever, prevented me from getting immersed in the movie. Not that would have been easy even if they had backstoried it in somewhere.
Which leads me to a summary of the other problems:
* Said many times on IMDb so far, but seriously; why is it so easy to rob a bank and escape "time keepers" and why are JT and AS the only people who've ever thought of it.
* Except in Post-Apocalyptic movies, A society set in the future should have technology that is greater or equal to the technology of the present. Why were cell phones, cb radios, stun guns (the cop seems hesitant to shoot cause it might kill someone, and there is a point where it's mentioned "shoot on sight is against policy"), and many other technologies uninvented.
* Has the art of providing security/policing a city died in the future? Why is the 20 strong group of "Agent Smith's from the Matrix" security guys infiltrated by JT just because he put on some shades?
*Also, the film doesn't really go into the behind the scenes workings of the conspiracy they allude to. Maybe they were trying to set it up for sequels, but if you're going to put a shitty movie out there that makes it impossible to do a sequel, at least give us the meat of the story.
*There are obviously those mistakes that any movie inevitably makes that are actually kinda fun to spot, such as the fact the driver went through zone 8 to get to zone 4 from the ghetto, which based on the map of the zones from the time keepers headquater is a long detour, or instances where someone should have run out of time because they weren't filled up.
So, overall....it's hard to disappoint me on these futuristic movies. I'm very forgiving, but this one just missed in two many areas. I'd rather you be great in one aspect and fall short in all the others, as long as you stuck that one point. Here it's all kind of thrown together and corners are cut everywhere.
ps - when JT's car flies off the road it looks like a 70s movie.