In Time

In Time (2011) is Andrew Niccol's sci-fi action thriller, ready to watch online on iFILM. In this future, people stop aging at 25 and then pay for every hour they stay alive. Wages, coffee, a bus ride — all of it ticks down on a glowing clock embedded in your forearm. When your counter hits zero, you drop dead on the spot.

Will Salas scrapes by in a poor time zone, living shift to shift, until a stranger gifts him a full century. That kind of wealth opens the gates to the districts where the rich hoard lifetimes. But the Timekeepers, led by the cold agent Leon, are already after him for a murder he didn't commit. On the run, Will takes Sylvia hostage — the daughter of a banker who trades in years — and the two start robbing time vaults and handing the hours to the poor. Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried lead, with Cillian Murphy as the pursuer and Olivia Wilde as Will's 25-year-old mother.

Niccol, the writer-director behind Gattaca, takes the worn phrase "time is money" and makes it brutally literal, then wraps a stopwatch chase around it. It's a neon dystopia about inequality with a clock running in every frame. Stream In Time (2011) online on iFILM.