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Guesss I better find out what's good with The Artist.
This is it though?
That's seriously all that came out last year?
Feels more like a Golden Globes list than the Oscars.

So I checked out In Time

I really did like a lot of the ideas. The movie is like someone tried to make a mashup of Gattaca, Equilibrium, Children of Men and Bonnie & Clyde ... which fully sounds amazing ... except the studio casted for Step Up 4.

The seeds of something great were there...but instead they gave us Justin Timberlake (who is Justin Timberlake), Olivia Wilde (who seems really cool and smart in interviews but is a robot) and Amanda Seyfried (who's been 16 with DDs in most things for the last...10 years?). That said, Cillian Murphy showed up though...which is probably why they barely bothered to show him in the commercials. Dude belonged in the movie this was supposed to be. I bet he got casted, showed up to work and wondered what the @!++ happened.

And you could just feel the script getting bent towards that MTV crowd, with the punny statements and the easy cornball lines. This was the punniest movie I have seen in my days. They dropped every damn saying about time they could think of into this. The allegory almost works...they just needed that core, that maturity. They needed real leads.

I was surprised that the main leap of faith, their whole idea on sharing time and life and death, still worked for me. People share time with a handshake. Everyone's living on their last few hours until they can earn some more (God forbid they hit 0). But almost everyone's miscast and you could tell the story was dumbed down.

This was by the writer and director of Gattaca, The Truman Show and Lord of War. Feels like the recession forced him to compromise and commercialize his movie just to get it made. Which probably describes what happened to most of the movies last year.

I liked it for what it was though. Even if you had to stop and laugh it half the time. And there are some pretty huge, important things missing like: who started this and why? who made the arm clocks? why did people accept it? how are they born with it? ...but still.

6.5/10