This sci-fi movie stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried as two young people on opposite ends of the social hierarchy. Here is a world where everyone stops aging at 25, when you hit the ripe old age, your time clock begins giving you just one year until you drop dead unless you earn more time. Time essentially becomes the new currency. The wealthy have decades even centuries of time at their disposable. Living life at a leisurely pace. Those less fortunate, live day to day. Earning and borrowing time to stay alive. Each social class lives in particular zones that are heavily guarded by the Timekeepers.
Will Salas (Timberlake) is a hard-working young man determined to live a good life and to help his mother (Olivia Wilde). He knows how to hustle and works every angle to earn mere minutes to extend his time and his mother's. At a chance encounter he meets a wealthy man who is well into his eighties but of course looks like he is 25, Will saves his life. For there are those who steal time for their own benefit. This wealthy man truly believes that no one is meant to live forever and this notion stirs something within Will; and Will is even more surprised when he wakes up with 100 extra years added to his life. With this new found time, he embarks on a journey to try and right the ways of the world, where everyone has their fair share of time on this earth. Meeting Sylvia (Seyfried) on this journey they learn a lot about themselves, their world and what they can do to balance the scales. A modern day Robin Hood meets Bonnie and Clyde.
I give it a 7 out of 10.
Next up is "The Big Year."
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