Buying Time

At first I thought, okay another standard thriller movie. However I am totally wow'ed by it all, starting with Blithe's performance, with Estelle Long and Ryan Enever's. They all really showcased their acting abilities here. The cast all wonderfully selected for their role, and every cast member delivered so well.

As for the story and dialogue, don't expect a conventional movie. This is meant to be bizarre in many ways but it's all done so well from beginning to end.

To the movie buffs out there, you need to see this. I don't expect others to appreciate the artistic way of this, but even for the general movie lovers this movie is good.

You might see a few glowing reviews here as I did, no idea how anyone could take those seriously after watching as much of this crap as I could.

This is so far below the average low budget indie flick i've seen on TUBI, it's even worse than a 12 year old can produce on Youtube.

I suggest looking for something else to watch.

Buying Time is uneven, but ambitious and engaging. If you go in expecting a big-budget blockbuster, you'll likely be disappointed. But if you're open to a lean, thought-provoking sci-fi thriller that punches above its budget, there's much to admire. Well done to Blithe, Enever and Wells for their performances.

Buying Time is a promising indie sci-fi thriller. It doesn't have the budget or polish of a AAA studio offering, but it makes up for that in ambition, ethical weight, performance, and pacing.

If you enjoy sci-fi with moral dilemmas, dystopian futures, and films that make you think - even with some flaws - this film is likely to satisfy. It's especially recommended if you can go in without expecting perfection in visuals or every plot thread to be fully resolved.

I started watching it not expecting too much from a title that seems like a B-class movie and had to give up literally after 2 minutes. Seriously, at one minute mark we hear the first words of the movie being spoken by a TV presenter labeled as medical correspondent, saying "Deaths continue to rise as the mutated viruses evade the use of traditional antibiotics". Come on guys, antibiotics by definition work on bacteria and not on viruses. It is not a rocket science level knowledge, it is literally taught in primary school, everyone knows that, except whoever wrote this script, apparently. I know I'm harsh but I will not waste my time on a supposed SCIENCE-fiction movie that fails at basic science. Unless someone took the fiction part of "Sci-Fi" quite literally or maybe the other genre description used for this title - dystopia, means that in the future even medical correspondents don't know basic science then jokes on me, but I personally bet on total ignorance of the screenwriter(s).