Bonnie and Clyde of Time

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2012)

Is this another of my Vanishing Reviews, Because I could have sworn I reviewed it right after I watched it.
Andrew Niccole (Of Gattica) has written and directed another film in a similar Bleak Genetically-manipulated future: In Gattica, you could not advance in society unless you had been genetically made "better" - But "In Time" - Everyone is made perfect. Everybody ages normally, until they reach their peak at Age 25 (an age I guess where we all felt we were at our best) - And then their Clock starts.
Everybody is given a year, gratis: But in this future, the only currency is TIME. The cost of a Bus Ride, is 2 hours - One more hour than Justin Timberlake's Mother (Olivia Wilde) has.
Justin Timberlake works in a factory where they make devices that store TIME. They pay him in Time - But today, they shorted him, because they did not bother to tell him his quota had gone up. That is the problem with this future, nobody bothers to tell anyone else when things that matter like this suddenly change. So a person who depends on stability for day to day living gets put into a jam when suddenly, it costs more money to live than they have left on their "clock." But Timberlake, sees a Rich Man enter the Bar where he hangs out - The man is wasting money with no regard for "Minutemen" - Crooks who will steal your time. Timberlake protects the hapless guy from Main minuteman Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number 4) and they hide in an abandoned Warehouse. But the man was Henry Hamilton, who was worth Hundreds of Thousands of Years - He only had a hundred years left on his Clock, and he gives it to Timberlake, with the Admonition "Don't Waste My Time" - Because, people are implanted with a Clock that can either give or receive Time from any other Living person. If a person dies with time on their Clock, that time is gone forever. So Rich Guy Hamilton "gives" Timberlake ALL of his time save for 5 minutes which he uses to Sit on a Bridge - Timberlake tries to save him, but all that does is put Timberlake's Face on a Camera at a Crime Scene.
This starts Timberlake on a little romp where he has to evade not only The Minutemen, but Timekeepers. The first thing Timberlake does is give his best friend 10 years, but his friend drinks himself to death. He then tries to give some to his mother, but Mom could not get on the bus, as they had increased the fare by more than she had. She tries to run all the way, but misses Timberlake by mere seconds.
With nobody left to keep him, Timberlake decides to see how the 1% lives - So he takes a cab ride "uptown" - Where he meets rich man Phillipe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser) and milks him of several hundred grand worth of Time. This impresses daughter Sylvia, and Timberlake gets invited to Weis' little Party for the 1%.
But the Timekeepers want to talk to Timberlake as to why he ended up with the last of Hamilton's time, and they crash Weis' party - And so Timberlake grabs a very Goth-Looking Silvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried) and its the best case of Stockholm Syndrome she ever had.
Several Times, Seyfried and Timberlake are left with Mere Seconds to live, but using wits they keep afloat, and eventually beat the 1% and give the 99% some hope - By "redistributing the wealth" a bit - Seyfried and Timberlake decide to create their own little Stimulus Package when they rob her pop out of the only existing Time-Storage Device that has 1 Million years on it.
Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later) is the Time-Cop who is trying to catch Timberlake, Murphy plays the role like he always plays em, makes us believe it.
This film is populated with every young actor in Hollywood - Remember, nobody ever ages past 25. So, some of these actors do a great job of making us believe that they are several decades older than they appear.