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Rating: 5/10 (18 November 2012)

The central premise of this film, that time replaces money as a commodity in a world where you are zapped one year after you reach twenty five unless you have time credits to live longer, is a creative Pandora's box but it isn't well worked out here. In fact it is very poorly rendered. On the good side the atmosphere is, in places, really well expressed but somehow it just doesn't convince on a greater scale, especially the idea of time zones. There are scenes that are touchingly, almost movingly, painted, but they are few and far between. In the main the plot cannot make up its mind what it wants to be, thoughtful or obvious.
And the pity is that the opening five minutes or so are very promising as if the participants really cared about what they were doing. And the best acting by far is contained in this brief period of the film. But sadly, by the end, you'll wish time had run out for all of them.