DVD review: In Time

This is based around a weird concept in a futuristic world where the currency everyone lives by is time.

People have a finite amount of time and you must use your accrued time to buy goods and trade, while earning time by working.

Ageing stops at 25 and your longevity is up to you to manage. If you can't find more time, you have only a year to live.

If you fail to manage your time, you "time out" when your personal clock strikes zero and you are dead. However, if you are born rich and powerful, time is not an issue.

But at the other end of the scale, time is used to keep the underclass poor and dependent on begging and borrowing time from the powerful.

Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) is a smart and honourable young man who uses his wits to keep just enough time on his clock. He can see the myriad injustices with the system but has no means of changing it.

That is until his kindness is rewarded with the gift of 100 years from a man who had had enough and wants to time out. So Will uses that time to leave the ghetto and seek out the powerbrokers who control the system.

Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried) is the daughter of a man who helps control time.

She becomes an innocent accomplice to Will, before deciding to help him break the system.

The pair starts a race against time. They must get time to those who are least fortunate before their own personal time expires. And they must do this with forces of good and evil pursuing them.

Title: In Time

Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried

Rating: (M)

Stars: 4/5

Distributor: Fox