Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Muphy,
Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Galecki, Olivia Wilde, Matthew
Bomer Directed by: Andrew Niccol
U.S.
Opening Date: October 28, 2011
THEY SAY
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To
avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay
for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest
try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a
fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up
on the run from a corrupt police force known as "time keepers".
WE SAY
Director Andrew Niccol has written two bona fide science fiction
classics, namely the prophetic Truman Show
and the underappreciated Gattaca, which is about a future dominated
by genetically-modified übermenschen. (Next up for the director is
The Host, Twilight author Stephanie Meyer’s
alien invasion take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)
In Time gives off a definite whiff of
Gattaca, which is the good news. The bad
news seems that it is “Gattaca, but with guns” and looks to be in
danger of descending into straightforward chase movie action clichés – a
sort of Marxist power fantasy version of
Logan’s Run in which one man single-handedly brings down The System
TM. Or maybe it is the bad taste that Repo
Men left in the mouth talking . . .
Time well, er, tell whether Niccol has sold out to Hollywood by giving
them a dumbed action movie down version of Gattaca. Until then we
remain cautiously optimistic. Even Niccol’s failed efforts such as
Simone and Lord of War were more
interesting than most of the drivel squeezed out by the Hollywood meat
grinder, so consider us excited.
