Why It's Awful: Andrew Niccol comes up with yet another fascinating sci-fi premise, though can't live up to the brilliance of The Truman Show or Gattaca, delivering his class commentary with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, such that it fails to blend well at all with the movie's other intent as a crowd-pleasing action flick. Characters are forced to chew through exposition constantly (ignoring the classic "show, don't tell" rule of filmmaking), and to boot, there's just no chemistry between Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried at all. The Remake: Keep the central premise, of time being a currency that separates the rich from the poor, but tone down the heavy-handed Robin Hood-style narrative, pair two leads who are more convincing romantically, and have enough faith in audiences to understand what's going on without having to feed them plot descriptions every 5-to-10 minutes. It's simply too delicious an idea to let escape because of one bad movie: with the same style but a less-patronising narrative, In Time could be a sci-fi classic for the ages.
Stay at home dad who spends as much time teaching his kids the merits of Martin Scorsese as possible (against the missus' wishes).
General video game, TV and film nut. Occasional sports fan. Full time loon.
