His insights into the film's sporadic final act could have proved rather fascinating. I really wish writer/director Andrew Niccol had contributed a commentary track for this one. And dialogue is crystal clear вЂ“ no intrusive crackles, pops or hiss reported. Bass gives weight to pretty much every scene in the film. Action beats are delightfully punctuated by detailed discrete surround cues that provide just enough atmosphere to help flesh out the almost non-sci-fi environments. No surprise вЂ“ Fox delivers a wonderfully rich, alluring high-res audio track for In Time. Audio is mixed in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. In other words, In Time sports a respectable transfer. And the encode exhibits very little noise, motion blur, or compression artifacting. The encode brings the film to life with stunning clarity, texture, depth and deep shadows.

Instead, the picture opts for an equally appealing naturalistic look. The film, quite surprisingly, doesn't take advantage of any advanced, moody color filters to help add to the film's stark sci-fi narrative. In Time arrives on Blu-ray encoded in 1080p/AVC, spread across a BD50 dual-layered disc. The movie works, but it could have been so much sharper. Instead, the film is more of a wonky complement to that film, borrowing some of the same ideas, same characters and same motifs, and repackaging them with a fresh sci-fi gimmick. In Time could have been a great pseudo-sequel to Gattaca, but it's a bit to sprawling to be comparable. It's a shame the half-cocked final act feels aimless and misguided. And while largely enjoyable on one level, In Time is a film ripe with untapped potential. Visual effects are seamless and this low-budget production looks like it cost at least double what it did. And Cillian Murphy, who doesn't really look the part, since he's 35 (10 years older than he should be), still manages to make his one-note character kind of interesting. Justin Timberlake holds his own as an action star. The sci-fi themes and ideas are potent with metaphor and subtext. From a base entertainment perspective, however, the film is remarkably fun. The movie itself seems to be chasing ideas, and often coming up short. They never truly capture the moral conflict of the characters or address some of the bigger questions posed in the first act. As such, none of the three stories feels fleshed out.

In many ways, In Time feels like a trilogy of films jammed into one movie. An interesting commentary, to be sure, but perhaps a bit too idealistic and far too sporadic for the general purposes of this movie. Will and Sylvia rob banks, mug people, pull over cars and steal their time, only to give it back to the working class. Then, perhaps even more abruptly, the film transforms into a redo of Bonnie & Clyde, by way of Robin Hood. She falls for him, and the two try to escape the clutches of the inexplicably evil Timekeeper.

Will kidnaps Sylvia Weis ( Amanda Seyfried), a high-class gal with hundreds of years on her internal clock. The middle of the picture slowly transforms from a commentary and metaphor of the current socio-political climate, and the recession that has followed the continued greed on Wall Street, into a somewhat dull chase picture. But once Timekeeper (cop) Raymond Leon ( Cillian Murphy) enters the picture, things start to take a less interesting turn. Writer/director Andrew Niccol had already given us one sci-fi classic with Gattaca, and for the first half of In Time, it seemed like he was giving us a second.

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