

In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".
Production
Seamless retro-future aesthetic; no smartphones, just timeless oppression.
Acting
Cillian Murphy's exhausted timekeeper deserves his own gritty spinoff.

Director
Andrew Niccol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's tagline 'Time is money' isn't metaphor—characters literally pay with minutes tattooed on their forearms, and director Andrew Niccol insisted on practical LED prosthetics rather than CGI.
Released during Occupy Wall Street, the film's 1% vs. 99% allegory was so on-the-nose that critics called it 'Occupy: The Movie,' though Niccol had written the script years earlier.