In Time

IN TIME (2011) - Oct. 29, 2011
A suprisingly bad movie about a future society in which time is the new currency -- people stop aging once they hit 25, at which point their clock starts ticking.  This is a society in which the poor are segregated from the rich, and in which the poor get poorer with little chance for escape, while the rich get richer with more time than they know what to do with.  You can just feel writer/director Andrew Niccol elbowing you in the ribs; "kind of like our society, right?  RIGHT??"  No, this is not a subtle film, but even setting aside its ham-fistedness, it's just not that good.  It feels pretty clunky, without all that much narrative momentum driving it forward, and without much chemistry between the two leads.  It's surprisingly shoddy, especially coming from a director as talented as Andrew Niccol.  *1/2