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Created Nov 19, 2011 01:02AM PST • Edited Nov 20, 2011 07:26PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   OK 2.5

   Blade Runner meets Robin Hood In Time. If only Andrew Niccol’s sleek techno-thriller were as good as its antecedents. Well, it’s better than some Robin Hoods, but that’s a low bar.

   What In Time is is quintessential Hollywood fantasy:

   • No one ages beyond 25, the peak of hotness.
   • Speaking of hotties, the movie’s stocked with ’em. Most are disaffected, kinda like the bored dancers in Addicted to Love back in the day.
   • The rich are rich because they cheat.
   • Marxist economics animate the fallacious rules driving the story.

   All of which would be fine if it were more than a one-note story. Sadly it’s not.

   Time is money becomes more than just a busy Tinseltown mogul’s mantra. Time really is money In Time. This singular conceit gets played for a series of increasingly lame puns that quickly lose their charm.

   Nor are the attractive leads well used. Justin Timberlake & Amanda Seyfried are plenty sexy, yet limited.

   Wanna know a real economic injustice in Hollywood? Wasting so many pretty faces.

   Then again, fashionably Marxist Hollywood moguls get their chicks for free.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

   Justin Timberlake & Amanda Seyfried – legitimate movie stars now – have a modicum of chemistry together. Pity that their cliche roles are so limiting.

   Pity also that none of the supporting characters outshines them.

   • Cillian Murphy makes a competent bad guy, though hardly a villain for the ages.
   • Johnny Galecki fares better as an alcoholic factory worker. Nice adult role for The Big Bang Theory’s Leonard.
   • Olivia Wilde is always striking, here playing Timberlake’s 50 year old Mom, living in a 25 year old body. Guess that makes her the ultimate MILF.
   • Yaya DaCosta has a great name and manages to jump off screen in a bit part as a bereft woman. She did the same in The Kids Are All Right, meaning DaCosta could be a star.
   • Vincent Kartheiser is passable as a heartless mogul.

   Trivia note: Timberlake, Wilde, Seyfried and Kartheiser acted together in Alpha Dog, a better movie.

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars OK 2.5

10. Film

    OK 2.5

    The film looks cool, with a 70s retro futurism style.

11. Direction OK 2.5

12. Play Barely OK 2.0

13. Music OK 2.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5

    Coldly retro-futuristic, stocked with de-badged E-Types, Cougars and other 60s dreamcars.

15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 2.1

17. Sex Titillating 1.9

18. Violence Fierce 1.8

19. Rudeness Profane 2.6

21. Reality

    Supernatural 3.5

    Justin Timberlake is 30 in real life, yet plays a perpetual 25 year old In Time.

    What’s next? A remake of The Picture of Dorian Gray perhaps.

22. Circumstantial Supernatural 3.4

23. Biological Supernatural 4.0

24. Physical Supernatural 3.2