Waste of an Excellent Concept

Rating: Null/10 (8 November 2011)

"In Time" has an excellent concept that can be potentially as attractive, thought-provoking as the multiple layer of dreams concept in "Inception". What would the economy and human life would be, if time itself is the currency? Imagine: "live quick, die young" could be literal: you can spend your allocated life-time for a luxury but short life; another example: earn/spend ratio, the ratio between the time your earn for doing a job and the time you spend on that job; a job with earn/spend ratio more than 1 is an "immortal job", in theory you can live forever because your time will never decrease... I can go on forever.
However, few of these interesting topics about time currency is interpolated in the film. It is a shame to see such good concept wasted; In Time is nothing more than a cliché boy-girl- run-away-fall-in-love and car-chase-gun-fire movie. The time-as-currency concept is merely elaborated as a count-down-to-zero-and-you-die mechanism to create feel of intense. It works for a few times in the beginning. And then it is used a lot. So it is cheap.
And the acting? Justin is handsome but that has nothing to do with the film.