"Originality" stolen from an unacknowledged earlier film.

Rating: 2/10 (21 November 2018)

About the only praise "In Time" received from reviewers was for the "originality" of its premise. I might have thought the same except that I had already seen "The Price of Life," an obscure 1987 made-for-TV film that supplied not only the premise but also all of the plot elements of "In Time" that had been praised as original. Everything else that happened in the film was typical hackneyed Hollywood trope.
The copying from "The Price of Life" was so obvious and so pervasive in the first half of "In Time" that it's impossible for the writer of "In Time" not to have seen the earlier film; the latter film can only be described as a remake of the former. Yet there was no acknowledgment that I'm aware of, in the credits or elsewhere, by the producers or writer of "In Time" that any of their ideas had been lifted outright from the earlier film.