Directed by Andrew Niccol
Written by Andrew Niccol
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Justin Timberlake co-stars with Amanda Seyfried in this dystopian time-based thriller. What the movie lacks in good perfomances it makes up in spades with time-based puns.
The premise: on your 25th birthday, a clock on your arm activates and counts down your last year. The economy is based upon time. You can get more time through work and trade. Timberlake is given a century's worth of time from a guy who is sick of being alive. Now the authorities (time keepers) are after him. He kidnaps Amanda Seyfried (the daughter of a wealthy time merchant or some shit). Seyfried and Timberlake partner up--and fuck--to rob time banks and give the time to the poor.
The movie is very stupid, but also pretty entertaining. It uses the word "time" more than "Pulp Fiction" uses "fuck." Like I said above, there are a lot of time-based puns. I'm fine with that, but I would be hard-pressed to call it "good."
I wouldn't necessarily recommend this film, but I wouldn't dissuade naybody from seeing it or make fun of them for liking it. My wife and my dad liked it. My father paid for us to see it, which is the only way I would have ever seen it. It was a good time, though.
6.5/10
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