In Time is one of those rare concepts that definitely gives you something to think about – although quite unrealistic, but it’s just that “what if” factor that really adds appeal to the movie.

Director: Andrew Niccol

Cast: Justin Timberlake, Cillian Murphy, Amanda Seyfried.

The director has posed that silent question to real world and mankind – what if you could actually see how much time you had left, and what would you do in that time – would you live the moment, or just keep buying more time, and die without actually enjoying life to the fullest?

Anyway, coming back to the plot – folks discover the secret to stop aging at 25, but they get a “life timer” on their wrists as a payback – when the clock hits 0, a person times out – i.e. dies! And, then the daily life runs with time rather than money, and in literal sense time becomes money! 30 minutes for a good lunch, 5 minutes for a cup of coffee and so on…

Justin Timberlake is the heart and soul of the movie, though he still needs to improve as an actor to say the least… Amanda Seyfried slowly makes her presence felt towards the end, while Cillian Murphy (who made his presence very well felt in 28 Days Later and Batman Begins) has also done good justice to his part.

The movie is all about the race against time, and then in due course of movie, it is slowly shown how the rich get richer, poor get poorer, and die as they’re not able to manage with rising inflation, and they keep getting timed out as they don’t have enough money (i.e. time in this case) to survive.

Justin Timberlake feels the pain as he sees his mother getting timed out in front of his own eyes, and accidentally hits a jackpot as he rescues a 100+ person from muggers in the pub, but that man gifts him 100 years, and times himself out!

He travels to a different time-zone where he always wanted to take his mother, and meets Amanda, who is the daughter of financial head of that zone, and just like every good ‘ol movie, both of them fall in love.
She elopes with her secret love without letting her father know, and everyone feels that she has been kidnapped, and then surprisingly Justin demands the ransom as one million hours for his time zone where tons of people keep getting timed out just because they’re unable to cope up with rising inflation rates…

Then on, there’s just action packed sequence worth a watch as the duo keeps looting one bank after the other, and distributing time to the needy, and the saga continues… (yeah that’s how the movie ends too!)

If you ask me personally, I liked the concept a lot, and even the execution was pretty decent, so I’m giving it a 3.5 stars – grab a DVD today and njoy!