In Time... "Don't waste my time!"

Today, many a random stroll led us to the cinema, where we watched In Time. Starring the once-sexy Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried (from Mean Girls, Mama Mia, Letters to Juliet and many other soapies), this film is a futuristic Bonnie and Clyde.

Time is (literally) money and humans are genetically engineered not to age beyond 25. From the moment you complete growing your clock begins to tick, and the richer you are, the more time you have got to live, making the rich immortal with centuries on them, while the poor people of the ghetto have to make do with the little they have got, one hour, one day at a time.

When an ordinary youth from the ghetto, Will Salace (Timberlake), finds himself thrown into the very clutches of the rich who enjoy the luxuries of immortality in New Greenwich, and is wanted for murder by the Time Keepers, the police who run this dystopia, the injustices of this time-economy are revealed. Together with the time banker's daughter, Sylvia (Seyfried) he begins a rebellion. The rest of the movie is a blurry chase with much shooting, very little sex and a dash of the Matrix thrown in here and there.

I felt the essence of a political message embedded in the references to class differences and "the system", but the story itself lacked the depth the idea called for. An excellent idea, but poor execution.