Good thing it isn't real, this would have been a SERIOUS waste of time!

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2012)

I saw the trailer for this, and thought, wow, what an intriguing idea for a movie and for the first 10 minutes I was right.
Then it all went wrong! It's not often that I'm tempted to turn a movie off half way through, in fact I think I've only done it once before (mike myers - The Love Guru)
In the end I did manage to sit through the whole thing, but only so my partner and I could mock it.
I see what the director/set crew have tried to do, make this movie grim and bleak, but instead they have hit BLAND and hit it so hard it's teeth fell out! I've never seen so many shades of beige used in a movie before and it seems to take place in the same 3 or 4 locations, re-used repeatedly. It seems the designers tried to be stylish too, in choosing retro sports cars for the police interceptors, but instead, it just looks tacky. Everything about this movie seems tacky, as though it were made on a shoe-string budget. Which would be excusable if it hadn't cost them $40,000,000!
As for the characters....WOW! what characters??? Timberlake, who can usually hold his own remarkable well for a presenter turned singer, turned actor, totally phones in his performance. He never seems overly bothered by anything going on around him (something that pretty much every character suffers with in this) It's not his fault alone though, Cillian Murphy, hams it up so badly it looks like he's auditioning for "maniac cop" and Amanda Seyfried is so boring you don't care if her clock runs out. (I would of stolen her time while she slept just to be rid of her!)
Spoilers coming!!!!
The villain of the piece, the leader of the "minute men" or whatever he's called, is possibly the most ridiculous character in the movie (and that takes some doing) He over-acts to a West End Shakespearean level and is about as threatening as a dolphin chewing a Chibi Pet, and Why in the name of all that's sane would you challenge a guy to a (really poorly thought out) "duel" that runs a serious risk of ending your life, when you have a team of thugs with guns and the upper hand??? Steal their time, kill them and go back to being a pantomime villain MORON!
Another truly moronic moment (there are many) Is when Murphy's character neglects his time dose, even though it takes seconds to do and the machine that does it is next to him, just so he can chase down Sallis??? (something he could've done AFTER topping up!) This goes for the main protagonists too. Why do they not leave themselves enough time to survive, even though they had millions of hours to play around with, instead creating needless moments of "tension". Ultimately it smacks of poor writing, if you have to constantly use the characters stupidity to generate cliff-hanger moments.
This was a great premise, wasted on poor writing, poor directing and some bad acting, (from actors who are capable of so much more!) oh and somebody PLEASE shoot the location scout!
How this ever garnered 6.6 on here is beyond me!
If you like beige, you'll LOVE this!