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Movie Overview
Cast
• Denzel Washington
• Eva Mendes
• Dean Cain
Director
• Carl Franklin
MPAA Rating
PG-13 - sexual content, violence, and some language
Out of Time (2003)

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OFCS Rating: 58% Rotten
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"Denzel Washington's newest thriller is a lackluster piece; it's all been done before, and far better by others."  EDGE Boston  David Foucher

3/4
"Washington's performance -- and the clever manipulations of the script (by David Collard) -- keeps Out of Time taut and credible."  Movie Boeuf  David N. Butterworth

3.5/4
"...tremendously entertaining throughout..."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

C
"Out of time simply ran out of sense for it to be more than another disposable pic."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

6/10
"Franklin seems to be aware that the audience knows what is going to happen."  Draxblog Movie Reviews  Dragan Antulov

2/4
"The film never digs beyond its skin-deep roots."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

2.5/4
"Out of Time is no less inconsequential than Matchstick Men but works hard to make the audience part of its con and not a victim of it."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

B-
"It's perfectly good as a mystery-thriller, I suppose, but it could have been so much more."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

B
"Knows how to have fun, and isn't afraid of breaking some plausibility rules to do it."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

2/4
"...the dreary formulaic plot supported by scattered pedestrian performances doesn’t reinforce the distinctive urgency and edginess this uneven crime caper valiantly tries to promote."  Movie Eye  Frank Ochieng

C+
"Just not smart enough to allow one to swallow all the coincidences and contrivances on the way to its disappointingly predictable conclusion."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

2/4
"Out of Time is a generic thriller with nary a surprise in store for the experienced film noir viewer."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

2/5
"Florida noir reteams Devil in a Blue Dress's director and star -- with less intriguing results."  Netflix  James Rocchi

3.5/4
"A roller-coaster ride of a thriller, steeped in suspense and the kind of hair-raising twists that have gone the way of quick gratification filmmaking."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

7/10
"Gets a lot of mileage from its specialty, which happens to be the close call."  Window to the Movies  Jeffrey Chen

1.5/5
"Washington looks deeply strained and sapped of vitality."  ToxicUniverse.com  Jeremiah Kipp

7/10
"More exciting than smart or chic or witty, Out of Time is relaxing, delightfully old-fashioned entertainment."  DVDTown.com  John J. Puccio

4/5
"."  3BlackChicks Review  Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

"If you base your decision on the poster, you will miss a fairly inventive, atmospheric and endearing movie that is never anything less than adequately entertaining."  FilmStew.com  Larry Carroll

B
"If you're willing to forgive some unlikely scenarios, Out of Time is cracking good fun"  Reeling Reviews  Laura Clifford

2.5/5
"Slick but ludicrously contrived."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

3/4
"We laugh at each new twist and turn, but we're also fascinated by how the hero will get himself out of each new dilemma."  Mark Reviews Movies  Mark Dujsik

2.5/4
"It's still not original or artistic, but it's effective at getting your blood pumping"  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

"[A] Double Indemnity for the 21st century..."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

B+
"Lathan and Mendes are both exceptionally fine, and Cain is nicely creepy and menacing. Wisecracking sidekick Billingsly gives his line readings a deliciously offbeat spin."  Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies  Nell Minow

C
"Second-rate Hitchcock."  Lessons of Darkness  Nick Schager

3/5
"O roteiro acaba negligenciando um aspecto que deveria ser importante para o herói: a inteligência."  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

"At no point do any of the characters ever behave like human beings and this is because they aren’t-they are merely ciphers who do stupid things because it is the only way that screenwriter Dave Collard could move his absurd tale along from point A to poin"  Critic Doctor  Peter Sobczynski

2/5
"Franklin's direction is blandly by the book; we know all the plot holes will be ignored, and that there will be a simplistic resolution."  Shadows on the Wall  Rich Cline

C+
"Entertaining enough if you don't get picky about the details."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

B-
"a well-made, well-acted and entertaining suspense story that works more often than not."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

2.5/5
"After a while, you start to realize there are only so many grains of salt we can swallow to help a sultry suspense picture like this go down."  Filmcritic.com  Sean O'Connell

2.5/4
"Only good enough to remind of the kind of filmmaker that Franklin has been and, hope springing eternal, could be again."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

7/10
Read review  Movie Gazette  Anton Bitel

7/10
Read review  Modamag.com  Brian Orndorf

7/10
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Read review  BlackFilm.com  Wilson Morales
OFCS Rating: 58% Rotten
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