Who can I blame for this?

Rating: 3/10 (2 November 2011)

I went into this movie hoping for a reasonable remake of the 1976 SF movie "Logan's Run". Well, that's not what I got. What I got was an unworkable premise, bad actors(or un-actable scenes and/or dialog) and extremely unbelievable situations. Premise - In a way that is not even attempted to explain, you are born with an embedded time clock that will 'go off' at 25 and begin counting down your last year of life, BUT this clock can be manipulated by 'pert near anything. So, as we find out (eventually) the poor work hard to afford a little bit of luxury, while the rich live forever. Immediately I saw that it would never work. If there was a device that interfaced with the clock, then it could be reversed engineered and THEN where would the system be. Acting - How would someone behave if your world revolved around this concept?? That thought gives my critique of the acting some slack. Since I have no baseline on how emotionally retarded the extreme classes presented in the film would be, it's hard to be too damning. But damning is what my instinct say be. Wooden, purposeless? I suppose Flat would be my best one word for the acting. Unworkable situations - Without being a spoiler, there are several scenes in the movie which are just... ridiculous. Even if I had put my brain in a jar, my butt was smart enough to see the implausibility of several scenes. I gave it a 3 simply because there were a few entertaining moments, the nice set on Amanda Seyfried, and the acting may have been inhibited/warped by the director (& screenwriter).