When Patrick, a charming artist forced to give up his dream because of the untimely death of his mother, enters her life, she easily falls in love with him. Jillian (Montes) is a sheltered rich girl with only a few friends and music to keep her company. While it was not a clunker, I don’t think it will go down in my list of favorite local movies either. (Okay… I couldn’t resist saying that.After the successful team up of dramatic actor Coco Martin and teen princess Julia Montes on the teleserye Walang Hanggan, it seemed like a logical next step to try their chemistry on the big screen and it was no wonder that Star Cinema, in partnership with Dreamscape Cinema chose the pair to headline their Valentines Day presentation, with a romantic drama entitled A Moment in Time. I’m talking about films like “Freejack,” “Surrogates” and “Demolition Man.” They’re forgettable and cheesy, but they’re not a waste of time. It falls in the realm of mediocre sci-fi movies that you might watch on cable late in the evening. Still, there’s a certain level of enjoyability to this film.
However, it is so blatantly shoved down the viewer’s throat that any form of artistic merit is lost. It’s clear that Niccol is making an obvious connection to the financial inequalities in this country, and in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, this should have a certain appeal.
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But it’s the set-up in the film, the appearance of how to control the commodity of time that never quite plays out right. In fact, Harlan Ellison tried to get an injunction against this film, claiming they ripped off his idea from “’Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman,” so that’s in good company, I suppose. Puns about “time” are thrown around like dollar bills at a strip club, and the premise itself barely holds up from scene to scene. The dialogue ranges from mediocre to absolute garbage, and the actors (even the weak ones) look like they can’t get the bad taste of it from their mouths. Niccol is a fine writer, but you wouldn’t know it by this film. In fact, the only person besides Timberlake who seems to give a damn about actually putting some performance on screen is Alex Pettyfer, and he’s just another pretty face who can sort of act. Cillian Murphy phones in all of his scenes. The normally charming Amanda Seyfried seems bored and annoyed throughout the film. The rest of the cast is clearly slumming it. He’s a good actor in his own right, and he deserves something better. I’m doubtful this will become a hit by any definition, but I don’t blame Timberlake for this. It’s clear this was a proving ground for him, whether he can carry a film on his own. Likewise, Justin Timberlake does a decent job with what he’s been given. This mix of contemporary and futuristic allows the story to be grounded a bit and relateable to the audience. There’s a retro-future vibe to the whole movie that gives the viewer the impression that you’re actually watching something better than you are. Like Niccol’s other films, it has a slick and solid look to it. There are some elements to “In Time” that are really quite impressive. One worker in the ghetto is given the opportunity to infiltrate the rich, and he hatches a plan to bring time equality to the masses. The rich, however, hoard the time to the tune of millions of years. Most of the population is running on borrowed time – literally – as they struggle to survive day to day. Thus, people’s seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and years are the new currency. However, there is a time stamp embedded in their arm that keeps counting down to their dying day. The story takes place in a dystopian future where people are genetically engineered to not age past 25. Because only in that mind’s-eye retrospective does it lose all of the awkwardness and poor execution. Kind of like having sex for the first time, “In Time” is more entertaining to think and reminisce about than it is to actually experience. The best part about Andrew Niccol’s new dark sci-fi thriller “In Time” isn’t anything about watching the movie, but rather how the movie feels.
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