What A Waste of...

Rating: 2/10 (9 February 2012)

I kept my expectations low for this film, but obviously not low enough. It really is a great concept and this movie should be an example of what happens when you take a great idea and spend two hours not treating that idea with any respect. Because the movie is based in a world where the economy is time, the pacing of the film is tantamount to its success or failure. And that's why it's such a letdown, because the pacing is so off, characters die before they even take one step in development.
If the plot is tight, you expect that sort of stuff. But the plot is meandering and the rules of time appear to be broken on a whim. The characters seem to have only minutes left in some scenes and then they proceed on, as if time doesn't really matter to them. Maybe a director's cut can restore some of the obviously cut scenes and correct the balance, but I don't know, this movie is just a mess. It seems like it's meant to bring the Occupy movement to the cinema. If you think redistribution of wealth is the path to prosperity, heck, you'll probably love this film, despite all its shortcomings and abuse of age-old story conventions. In Time is a cotton candy reverie for simple minded anarchists and for everyone else, a bad drawing of a great looking model.