Overview
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as 'time keepers'.
A good movie from the writer of The Truman Show. Good, but not great. To begin with, the bad guy is very typical. A serious criminal with badass sidekicks in black suites who listen to his commands like “catch him, find him, get him”. So there’s a chance for Timberlake to show his acting skills, which might be better than his music. He did his role fine here.
The movie is about technologically repressed world, nothing very new, but the efforts to update Hollywood’s formulas could be felt.