Like a 70's sci-fi but with better effects

Rating: 2/10 (3 October 2012)

Time is money. And the movie presents us with a world where the currency is just that. You work to get extra minutes on your life clock. A concept that could have been good...
The movie starts with having the main character present us with the facts: Everyone stop aging at 25, you get an extra year on your life displayed on a clock on your arm where the hours, minutes and seconds count down before your eyes, and this is all because some genetic engineering. Our main character doesn't know how this came to be. And we as viewers accept that since it's a movie. After that you follow a story full of plot holes and events that can't be explained.
The storyline follow our character who in a twist of fate get more time to spend. And naturally accused of maintaining this time as the result of a crime. He then proceed in taking a hostage, and in true Stockholm- syndrome they go on a Bonny and Clyde rampage believing to be Robin Hood distributing time to who ever they feel deserve it.
This movie made me feel like I was watching a sci-fi from the 70's, with the same plot line regarding society as "bad" and changing it's core structure is the solution to all problems. (Even though the large amount of people left dead in their trails should indicate otherwise) And with a character gallery that is so transparent and one dimensional you start to wonder if the script was written by a high-school student.
As for the rating: Cillian Murphy is a great actor, and the clock-effect was nicely done. Due to this the movie get 2/10. (1,5 is more accurate.)
This movie took about an hour and a half out of my life and I would like to get that back.