- The concept that everyone in the film, even the 85-year-olds and the 67-year-olds all look like they're 25 years old. Everyone in the film looks 25, except the kids under 25. It's like a preview of the New World.
- The automobiles. There were three basic styles, based upon, I dunno, something like a Kennedy-era Daddy Wagon Lincoln, maybe a 70's Dodge Charger, and a 70's era Bob-tail Caddy. They're nearly all painted flat black and hum with their futuristic electric motors.
- The performance by Vincent Kartheiser as the 85-year-old Phillipe Weis was good. It was Wendy who pointed out that, though he looked 25, he acted 85.
- The basic idea that the currency of the future is time, which can easily be passed from hand to hand (wrist to wrist) between people.
- Oh yeah... Olivia Wilde, briefly.
What I didn't like about In Time, the 2011 motion picture co-starring Cillian Murphy:
- The juvenile dialogue, which seemed written by a 15-year-old.
- There was a chase through a restaurant kitchen and a bowl of tossed salad got knocked up into the air and salad went everywhere. Please...
- The two-bit thug villain had a stupid stereotypical English cockney accent, a la Firefly. Please...
- The atrocious special effects crime of having an expensive sports car careen off the edge, then cutting to an obvious plastic model, blurred and in slow motion, crashing down a dirt embankment.
My feeling is that this B movie (maybe it's a B+) will come and go with scarcely a stir, and then later on perhaps become sort of a minor cult favorite. After all, the concept is pretty original.
After all, one reason we went to see it is that it's somehow related to a movie many people loved: Gattaca.
