History Film / InTime

* ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** The idea that you can commoditize lifespan is pure fantasy; aging is not caused by an "aging gene," but rather through a number of factors. Damage is sustained to DNA due to repeated splitting and copying necessary for cellular division, the skin becomes thinner and wrinkled with age mainly due to exposure to ultraviolet radiation, joints wearing out simply due to use over time, and so on.

* OneHeadTaller: Bordering on HugeGuyTinyGirl. Creator/AmandaSeyfried (Sylvia) is ''so'' much shorter than Music/JustinTimberlake (Will) she has to wear extremely high heels in every scene to keep them in shot together.

* ScullyBox: Sylvia's sky high purple heels.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of Leon's goons remarks to him that he's cutting his time refill very close about half-way through the movie.
** During the chase, Leon is shown to be capable of making risks that none of his fellow Timekeepers are capable of doing such as jumping out of windows.

** Asides from his team of incredibly ineffectual bodyguards, Phillipe Weis has very little security protecting his fortune, though this is possibly due to complacency from living in a Utopian timezone. Less forgivable are his banks and lending shops, who leave the vault open during business hours, apparently have no security guards, and have nothing in place to stop a simple ram-raid, even in the rougher areas.

* ModernStasis: The movie is set in 2069, but aside from advances in genetic engineering, which started the whole thing, progress seems to have ground to a halt. In fact, Dayton seems to have less technology than current times. People rely on payphones, for example. Justified, as many modern conveniences would probably make time earning easier...and that defeats the purpose of the system currently in place.
** Though we only see them in Dayton, where people probably have more urgent things to spend their sparse time on than mobile phones.

* OhCrap: The default reaction of anyone who is almost out of time, except [[NervesOfSteel Will]].

** It's not unreasonable that Will was flirting with suicide at that point in the film.

* ProperlyParanoid: Philippe Weis.

* PyrrhicVillainy: Fortis tries to shake down a guy for his time, but Will's Robin Hood antics have given him enough of a surplus to buy a gun. Since he can't strongarm the guy, Fortis just shoots in a moment of anger, thus killing him and rendering his surplus time unobtainable.

-->'''Female Timekeeper''': What do we do, sir?
-->'''Jaeger''': Go home.

* ModernStasis: The movie is set in 2069, but aside from advances in genetic engineering, which started the whole thing, progress seems to have ground to a halt. In fact, Dayton seems to have less technology than current times. People rely on payphones, for example.

* AlasPoorVillain: Raymond Leon. Once serene music plays out in five seconds before timing out, you can't help but feel bad for him.

* AlasPoorVillain: Raymond. Once serene music plays out in five seconds before timing out, you can't help but feel bad for him.

A 2011 Sci-Fi Action/Adventure film starring Music/JustinTimberlake, Creator/AmandaSeyfried, Creator/CillianMurphy, Vincent Kartheiser, and Creator/OliviaWilde.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Allow me to introduce my mother-in-law Clara, my wife Michelle and my daughter Sylvia."]]

* ModernStasis: The movie is set at least a century ahead, but aside from advances in genetic engineering, which started the whole thing, progress seems to have ground to a halt. In fact, Dayton seems to have less technology than current times. People rely on payphones, for example.

** The idea that you can commoditize lifespan is pure fantasy.
** Aging is not caused by an "aging gene," but rather through a number of factors. Damage is sustained to DNA due to repeated splitting and copying necessary for cellular division, the skin becomes thinner and wrinkled with age mainly due to exposure to ultraviolet radiation, joints wearing out simply due to use over time, and so on.

Not to be confused with 2013's ''Film/AboutTime'', also about time travel.

* TheSocialDarwinist: Phillipe Weis, who constantly quotes things like "Survival of the Fittest" and "Natural Selection". [[spoiler:His obsession bites him in the ass as it allows Sylvia to easily guess his safe's combination: 12021809 - CharlesDarwin's birthday.]]

* FollowTheLeader: A future dystopia in which society is divided into twelve districts—I mean, “time zones”—based on wealth, a young person from the poorest time zone leads a revolt against the system, and the elderly (in actual years) representative of the ruling class coldly explains why such brutality is necessary for his zone’s survival and prosperity. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Sound]] [[TheHungerGames familiar]]?

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Fortis the Minute Man is a strong contender for Most Unpleasant Person In The Universe. The only other guy that comes close is Weis who, to keep things balanced, is actually dark-haired.

* WatchThePaintJob: It doesn't take long before the shiny new car Will has bought ends up totaled in the ditch with the tires blown up.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Will's mother gives him thirty minutes for a proper lunch. If she had kept the time, she would have been able to run to Will.

** The car driven by Will as well as the beach from the Weis Estate are the same ones from ''Gattaca''.

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: The government has created a system where each citizen has a gun to his or her head, and people drop dead in the streets (which is commonplace enough that everyone shrugs it off) as these guns are constantly triggered. What to do in such a situation? Why, constantly repeat how 'necessary'' the system is!
** Nobody mentions the generations ''before'' the system was put in place. After all, the government would, effectively, have to force people to have their unborn children undergo genetic therapy to limit their lifespan. At some point, people before the gene therapy would have died from either natural causes or violence.

It shares quite a few elements from "Time is Money", a short story by [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom Lee Falk]] first published in ''{{Playboy}}'' in 1975. Is strongly reminiscent of both ''Film/LogansRun'' and ''Film/TheFugitive'', though it's not a remake of either. It also shares some elements with ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''. Creator/HarlanEllison[[note]][[TradeSnark © 2005 Harlan Ellison]][[/note]] sued to try to get it withdrawn on the basis that it was an unauthorized adaptation of his story "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman", but on November 4, 2011, he ultimately agreed to a settlement similar to what he got for ''Film/TheTerminator'' (i.e. his name will be added to the credits). He ultimately dropped the suit altogether before the month was out, having seen the film.

It shares quite a few elements from ''Time is Money'', a short story by [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom Lee Falk]] first published in {{Playboy}} in 1975. Is strongly reminiscent of both ''Film/LogansRun'' and ''Film/TheFugitive'', though it's not a remake of either. It also shares some elements with ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''. Creator/HarlanEllison[[note]][[TradeSnark © 2005 Harlan Ellison]][[/note]] sued to try to get it withdrawn, but on November 4, 2011, he ultimately agreed to a settlement similar to what he got for ''Film/TheTerminator'' (i.e. his name will be added to the credits). He ultimately dropped the suit altogether before the month was out, having seen the film.

* OperaGloves: Sylvia's outfit includes a pair.

* WritersCannotDoMath: Overlaps with RidiculousFutureInflation. Suffice it to say that the (relative) prices given for various items can border on the absurd.
** Possibly somewhat justified, in that it's implied that the economy is rigidly controlled and prices are set by the government or some central cartel under them based on the need to keep life spans under control, not based on actual value or supply and demand. That leaves them open to problems of command economies, such as shortages, not that the rich would care as they'd still have what they want/need, with first crack at everything.

* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Perhaps deliberately invoked. If the system operated on any kind of supply/demand process, then it would require a constant stream of new births to prevent deflation. If it was meant to prevent overpopulation, the cost of living would be based on population concentration. Instead wages are decreased and prices are increased by fiat (especially once Will and Sylvia begin their time theft spree), meaning the purpose of the system is to ''[[KillThePoor Work the Poor to Death]]'' at a controllable rate.

* CapitalismIsBad: This film connects capitalism with social darwinism in an {{anvilicious}} way. Wages are decreased and prices are increased by fiat, meaning the purpose of the system is to ''[[KillThePoor Work The Poor To Death]]'' at a controllable rate. Note that the film seems to massively [[ArtisticLicenseEconomics fail at economics]].