Words fail me to describe how BAD this movie is, so much that I didn't even think I'd write a review for it... it's the first time I'm giving a ZERO rating to anything, and if I could give it a minus number, I would: that's how terrible this film is.

Where to start? The premise? Laughable! So, one day a year where all crime is allowed, except killing important politicians, solves all of society's problems?? Really? Yeah, if you could kill a senator or a President who is not doing a good job, yeah, maybe.. but that's not even allowed during the Purge, so what gives? Just the main concept of the movie makes everything else go downhill from there.

The acting? Worst I've seen in decades! What ever happened to Ethan Hawke? I don't remember him being such a bad actor in previous films… maybe he had to lower his acting level to match everyone else's in this crapfest?? Whoever played the wife was just sooo bad at acting, and so were the children… oh, wait, right: having the 18-year-old girl be wearing her "sexy" catholic schoolgirl outfit the entire movie, in order to lure the perverts in? Cheesy move. And the boyfriend, who had no relevance in the movie whatsoever, and who probably was there just to target teenage girls?  The casting for this was just so horribly bad, I mean, how was this movie a box office "success" is just beyond me…




The plot elements? So they made the little kid be a pacifist and so he harbors a fugitive from the purge, which starts the whole mess.. then they torture the poor guy7 in order to get him to cooperate to get him out of the house, then they ALL turn into moralmongers and go "oh no, we're better than, let's kill a lot of people instead of just one". Ah yeah, the Purgers! So they wear masks, even though there's no need, as all crime is legal for 12 hours, but still they felt the need to hide their faces, except for their polite leader, who's too cool for masks.. and then the neighbors trying to kill family just because they made a lot of money selling them their security systems, and then the black guy (yeah, they had to make the main victimized guy be black) saves the day, dad dies, the end.



I really had to put up with this just to write this review, I was ready to call it quits barely 20 minutes into the movie, and that still was too long a time for me. I'm not gonna say this is the worst movie I've ever watched, but it definitely ranks up there at the top. And they're gonna make a sequel? This world is definitely going to the pits…

A huge buzz surrounded this film before being finally released, and being a fan of science fiction myself, I couldn't help but give In Time a chance, in spite of it being too tied to such a "big name" such as Justin Timberlake. And while I can't say the movie disappointed, it wasn't the thriller I expected either.

The story here goes something along these lines: in the future, humans are born genetically altered to have a digital clock on their arms, and when they turn 25, they stop aging, but they have only one year left to live… unless they buy or earn more time, meaning they can live forever as 25-year-olds if they can afford it. Not a bad premise, but the overall plot elements really ruined this flick for me.

WHAT TO LOVE
The idea for the movie was great, it was a very cool concept, and whole "future-retro" look was awesome too. Photography was great, acting was decent enough (not top-notch by any means, except for Cillian Murphy, that even if a little type-cast here, is always an amazing actor), and the underlined social commentary about redistributing the wealth of the world so everyone can have a decent life, was pretty well done.


WHAT TO HATE
Stupid plot factors that could have derailed the movie at any point. I mean, in a society with cameras everywhere, did Will Salas really had to go all the way to the bridge to see the corpse of the guy who gave him all those years? He was already there.. had he not gone there, he would have never been a suspect of robbing him, and the whole movie wouldn't have existed. Then, even after knowing he was a fully identified fugitive, he goes hiding at his own apartment, leaving himself super easy to be found? Childish mistakes I wish wouldn't have been made.

WHAT TO IGNORE
The gang of "Time-thieves" was only relevant at the beginning of the movie, when they gave a reason for the rich guy and Will to pair up and eventually make the time-transfer that gave way to the rest of the movie. After that, their existence was totally irrelevant, as only the Time-keeper cops had any incidence on the overall plot. It felt like those thieves were put in  the movie only to have some "pretty faces" thrown in there to attract a wider female audience, which always seems too much of a cheap move to me.


THE VERDICT
Not a bad movie, it had some entertaining moments, it didn't have any gratuitous sex scenes (which it didn't need at all), but those stupid bland silly holes in the plot ruined it too much for me. I'd still recommend it if you want to watch some light sci-fi, don't don't expect to be mind-blown at all, 'cause you won't.

Well, i'm still kind of dizzy after watching the third and, apparently, last installment in director's Michael Bay's Transformers movie series, but i decided to make this review while the film was still fresh in my mind, because i can foresee i will be forgetting it pretty soon.
While i really like the first movie in the series and was mildly entertained with the second one, i have to say this one was an overall disappointment for me. Don't get me wrong, the visuals were amazing and the action was non-stop, but that was pretty much all the film had going for it. Background music was just standard, acting was very bland and the plot was just weak.. even though it presented many ideas about world events that i feel are worth talking about and may be the only redeeming quality of the entire production going into it.

It has been highly speculated that the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon found alien ruins there, and that's what is exactly portrayed right at the beginning of the film. Also, the whole idea of a new planet coming into Earth's orbit probably stems from the many speculations about Nibiru or Hercolubus or Planet X, something that also was portrayed right at the end of The Event's TV series first season ending.


I also found of interest the use of the Washington monument as a way to open a portal between Earth and the Moon, something that could also be linked to The Event series. With all the conspiracy theories about Washington D.C. and its architecture, this bit of the movie is definitely worth paying some attention to.

Even more revealing was the part where the Autobots use a space shuttle to leave Earth, and then this is destroyed in a blatantly similar way to the Challenger's disaster in 1986. This is very likely also very connected to more conspiracy theories about what really transpired in that event, with many people saying saying the shuttle carried weapons to be deployed in space and that this fact was the reason that "UFOs" took down the ship. I never paid much attention to that theory, but seeing this movie makes a point of referencing it, it's definitely making me rethink my views about it.

Of Megan Fox's absence in this film, i don't find much to mention in the subject… to me, she was always just eye candy in the previous two installments of the series and her character wasn't really relevant: she was there to look good and attract a bigger male audience, and that was about it. With her gone, the Victoria Secrets' model they put in her place, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, didn't do much of a better or worse job… she did her job of looking hot at all times, even when not needed at all, and in spite of her lecturing Megatron having a major influence on the ending of the movie, her character was completely forgettable and irrelevant.

Finally, what was up with the constant change of camera angles (almost every 2 seconds in some parts) and the constant background music? I don't think there was a single second of the movie without some action soundtrack behind it… i mean, i know this is Michael Bay's way of doing things, but i think he really overdid it this time. It seems he considers his entire audience to suffer from ADD, because it was almost impossible to focus your attention on anything happening on the screen.

Design wise, i have always loved the Transformers' organic look in these films… i like that they look mechanic but at the same time organic in nature, as i would imagine alien machinoids beings to be, so no complains there at all.
To sums things up, if you're looking for fast paced action and a tonload of special and astonishing visual effects, then you probably will enjoy this movie a lot, but if you're looking for anything else, you probably won't find it here.