Rating of
2.5/4
Entertaining but too flawed...
Zeljka - wrote on 07/08/12
SPOILERS AHEAD -- THIS IS NOT REALLY A REVIEW, MORE A RANT...
The movie is entertaining, fast-paced, interesting...if you can accept the premise - time as money - which I couldn't.
What would be the point of the value system depending on the time and the life living like that, when your hand is practically a wallet easily robbed. People on the poor side didn't have enough time to live at all, they were basically lowered to the level of simple day-to-day survival, which doesn't make sense - what would be the point of living like that, like simple machines to put tokens in? Opposite to them, rich people had to be careful not to make any stupid or risky movement (what a fun of living like that either) because such a mistake could cost them literally a life. If dead their money wouldn't be worth a cent. Isn't this what we call irony?
An example that I think terribly ridiculed the script... A bus drive one hour long costing two hours for a two-hours walk. Huh? Let's put aside lady didn't have money (time) for either options. Why would anybody PAY two hours and then drive one hour more, so to speak spend three hours for a two-hours walk, especially if they were really living on a daily basis?
Anyways, Timberlake wasn't bad, although not that good either, scenes between Wilde and him were awkward, but that might be also because Wilde isn't so good actress too. Seyfried was good though, I liked their scenes together. Some actors didn't look the age they were supposed to present. But never mind for that. OK movie if you do not think a lot about the story, but I feel this was a movie you were supposed to think about, and that makes it not so good.
