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In Time

Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Vincent Kartheiser, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Shyloh Oostwald, Johnny Galecki, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer | Written and Directed by Andrew Niccol

Gattaca director Andrew Niccol returns to the sci-fi genre with In Time, a fast-paced thriller set in a near-future where, to avoid overpopulation, people only age until 25, after which time they are given another year to live and the only way to stay alive is to earn, steal, or inherit more time. Time becomes the currency by which people live, literally trading in hours of their lives for luxuries and necessities. It’s a society split into time zones instead of countries, where the rich can live forever and the poor die young.

One young man, Will Salas (Timberlake) stumbles into over a century of time when he rescues one rich man, Henry Hamilton (Bomer), from a gang of time thieves. Henry you...

In Time

Stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Vincent Kartheiser, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Shyloh Oostwald, Johnny Galecki, Matt Bomer, Alex Pettyfer | Written and Directed by Andrew Niccol

Gattaca director Andrew Niccol returns to the sci-fi genre with In Time, a fast-paced thriller set in a near-future where, to avoid overpopulation, people only age until 25, after which time they are given another year to live and the only way to stay alive is to earn, steal, or inherit more time. Time becomes the currency by which people live, literally trading in hours of their lives for luxuries and necessities. It’s a society split into time zones instead of countries, where the rich can live forever and the poor die young.

One young man, Will Salas (Timberlake) stumbles into over a century of time when he rescues one rich man, Henry Hamilton (Bomer) from a gang of time thieves. Henry you...

Can Andrew Niccol match the brilliance of Gattaca with his new sci-fi film, In Time? Here's our review...

Andrew Niccol’s debut feature as writer/director was 1997's clinical, Huxley-esque Gattaca, which he then immediately followed with scribe duties on the rightly revered The Truman Show. These two sleeper-classics, as well as story work on The Terminal and a further writer/director credit on underrated Nicolas Cage vehicle Lord Of War, mark Niccol out as one of the most consistently interesting filmmakers working today.

In Time, Niccol's latest project as both writer and director, ostensibly sees him return to an area closer to that of Gattaca. Another examination of human nature when faced with the inexorable march of scientific progress, In Time eschews many of that former film’s more stoic elements, instead aiming for a more scattergun, blockbuster approach.

Niccol presents a future where time, not money, is currency.

It seems fitting that my first interview of the day was Matt Bomer. In the world of “In Time”, where people stop aging at 25, the landscape is very pretty. So when Matt walked into the room and introduced himself to each of the journalists sitting at the table, it was obvious why he belonged in this movie. He is extremely handsome and seemed to fit the mold Andrew Niccol had designed for the film. During our discussing we talked at length about various topics including how “In Time” is being released at a very unique time in American history. The film deals greatly with the whole 1% issue that mirrors protests happening around the globe today. He talked to the idea of fearing death and that it is something he currently doesn’t think too much about. Because he spends so little time on screen, as the wealthy Henry Hamilton, I...

New Justin Timberlake 'In Time' movie delivered good action,drama & Ok plot. 20th Century Fox released their new Justin Timberlake,branded, action/drama flick "In Time" into theaters this weekend. I just checked it out,and I thought it was pretty fun to watch. It told a good story,and had plenty of fast-paced action and drama. The movie stars: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Alex Pettyfer,and Johnny Galecki. In the flick,everyone lives by time as a currency once they hit the age of 25. So, that means if poor people decided not to work,they just dropped dead,while the rich people got to relax and live comfortably with all the time in the world. Justin Timberlake's character Will Salas was one of the poor folk who woke up everyday with only 23 hours on his wrist. If he didn't hustle to work everyday,...

In Time

Starring Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy

Directed by Andrew Niccol

Rated PG-13

In Time is a movie where minutes become your currency to survive. When your clock times out, so does the beating of your heart. You pay for coffee, transportation, and sex with time. The irony of the movie is In Time wasted 109 minutes of mine. If I was living in this sci-fi adventure, a 109 minutes is not something you just waste on an average flick starring a former pop super star. In reality it could be the life and death of my mother, girlfriend, or best friend.

Andrew Niccol’s premise however is unique, and current. He captures the idea that those only left with a day of time have no other choice, but to live just for today. He creates a clever storyline that allow the characters in the movie to share, gamble, steal...

Filmmaker Andrew Niccol wowed us with Gattaca and his latest, In Time, is also quite the innovative adventure. Justin Timberlake stars as a man from the poor side of town in the not-so-distant future. Money has been replaced by time. Workers get paid in time and when you only are genetically programmed to live to the age of 25, time truly is money. Therefore, the wealthy live elongated lives that the poor aspire to -- but will never achieve literally living day to day.

Amanda Seyfried is Sylvia Weis, a rich girl living miles, or “time zones,” away from Timberlake’s hood. When Timberlake’s Will Salas comes across Matt Bomer as Henry Hamilton, Bomer is a man with centuries on his green glowing arm clock in the worst of neighborhoods. He is on a suicide mission. After a century of living and another century on the clock, Hamilton has had enough.

Chicago – Andrew Niccol has delivered complex, daring science fiction before, most notably in his scripts for “The Truman Show” and “Gattaca.” Sadly, “In Time” will never be mentioned in the same breath with those films. This is a one-idea film and that one idea is poorly executed. With some of the cheesiest, surface-level dialogue of the year, a complete lack of chemistry between the leads, and some of the choppiest action editing of the year, “In Time” is a near disaster.

Rating: 1.5/5.0

Nearly every scene, line, and theme in “In Time” is based on the same relatively clever (but also kinda goofy) concept of a world in which time is literally money. It’s a good idea for the foundation of a sci-fi script but nothing is built on it. We are genetically engineered to have one year to live after we turn twenty-five. And we have a ticking clock...

It’s the near future and the government has put in a population control method in which people stop again at 25 years old. On your 25th birthday you get a wonderful little gift in the form of 52 more weeks to live. After the clock runs out, so do you and it’s up to you to earn, steal or inherit more time. However, that becomes harder and harder to do as time is literally the only currency in this dystopian world. A cup of coffee costs 4min. A bus across town is 2 hours and don’t even think about staying overnight in a nice hotel unless you’re prepared to shorten your life by 6 weeks. So when all is said and done most people in this world are like Will Salas (Justin Timberlake). He has managed to live 3 years after his 25th birthday. However, in those three years he hasn...

[Disclaimer: When I use the word "time" (or any variation thereof) figuratively, I'm not trying to make a pun.  It's just a common and useful word for our vernacular.] Andrew Niccol's In Time has the opportunity to take its solid sci-fi concept and thoughtfully explore social and existential issues.  Unfortunately, the movie skips along the surface, making its obvious points repeatedly and with decreasing clarity.  While the need to make a smart sci-fi concept palatable to the masses is understandable, Niccol takes his appropriate action coating and runs it into the ground.  In Time has so many things it wants to be and to say, but it ends up tripping over the words after the first few sentences. In Time takes the saying "Time is money," and runs with it.  In the future, humans have been genetically engineered to never age beyond 25, but the catch is that beyond 25 they need to acquire more time to stay alive.  However, they need to keep acquiring more time in order to live.  This scarcity has made time the currency and it...

Just over a week ago, 20th Century Fox dispatched Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and writer/director Andrew “Gattaca” Niccol to Comic-Con to talk up their new sci-fi drama thriller In Time. You’ve likely already read our panel report from the day and watched the footage from the press conference. Well, now the full trailer for the film is online over at Apple.In Time is set in an alternate near future, a world where mankind has cracked the idea of aging. Everyone ages until 25, whereupon they stop. But there’s a catch! In this universe, time is literally money and unless you’re one of the rich types who have banked years of life and can waft about in luxury (albeit bored and constantly paranoid about injury or illness), you have to work to stay alive.Justin Timberlake’s Will Salas is in the latter category, surviving day to...