Intense movie.

Rating: 7/10 (7 November 2011)

Wow, I haven't seen such a movie as original as this one, in a long time! I just saw Real Steel in the cinema, ran downstairs to buy a ticket for In Time and I did not regret it.
In this movie, people live until they reach the age of 26. After 26 years they just die. So every people has a limit of time he or she can spend. In their arm is written how much time they have left. If you want to buy something, you can buy it with time. In this way you have less time to spend. But if you work and get paid, you get paid in time. Great story right? It doesn't stop there! The story writers got everything out of this concept to give you a great action movie what you would have expected.
There are different people; people who live day by day and who don't have much time and rich people who have all the time of the world and who want more time, even over the backs of the poor people.
Will Salas (JT) wants to get more time for the poor people (like a modern Robin Hood) and meets this rich girl Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried). They steel time from the rich people and are being chased by the minute men (people who steel time from poor people) and Raymond Leon (CM). The chase of CM and JT reminded me about the cat and mouse hunt of Freejack (1992) where Jagger was chasing Estevez and even this hunt was very exciting. I was waiting for CM to count his one Missisippi and two Missisippi, but in his head CM was counting backwards when he was left with only a few seconds on his arm.
Left all the realism aside, the story is not bulletproof. Sylvia Weis is living her life in the rich world, has never been in the poor area, and still she knows how people live in the poor area. I laughed when JT and SW kissed each other in the limo. When you are being chased you don't think about kissing I guess. But hey, I have never been chased before and definitely not in the company of a very beautiful woman.
The vehicles in the movie were as fantasy less as the vehicles in Freejack. If cars in the future look like the cars in this movie, we don't make any progress. That was a pity.
Great movie, great action, very exciting and intense. JT needs a few movies more to become a very good actor. He isn't there yet, but that's OK. He'll get there. If some don't know what I'm talking about, JT is not a flat actor, but he is not an actor who knows to reach your heart by acting with a lot of emotions, like an actor as Russel Crowe can do. But knowing his background as a singer, I must say, JT is on his way to become a good actor.