Below is an excerpt from The Dude on the Right’s full review of “In Time.” He thinks it’s an okay movie, and even liked “The Minutes” featurette on the Blu-ray, but does understand if you think the movie is crap.
…It’s a futuristic world where you stop aging at age 25. Now that sounds all great and swell except for a few things. First off, what if your “I’m hot!” age is actually 35 and you find yourself stuck at the “I’m ugly” age of 25? Also, what if you’re into older men or women? I mean, that girl you are hitting on may have actually been alive for 110 years, but she doesn’t look a day over, well, 25, so you’re S.O.L. And lastly, once you hit 25, you only have one more year to live unless, well, you can get someone to give you more of their time, you can figure out how to purchase more time, you steal someone else’s time, or, well, who cares because in any event you are constantly reminded of how much time you have left because there is this countdown clock embedded in your arm…