Movie Review for Out of Time

Summary: Suppose everything you knew--everything you trusted --became a lie. For Matt Lee Whitlock, that nightmare has become a reality.Matt is the chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida. A hardworking man who’s good at his job, he’s respected by his peers and beloved by his community. But when Banyan Key is shocked by a brutal double homicide, Matt starts his investigation--and his life starts to unravel. As details of the case begin to surface, all of the evidence points to Matt as the prime suspect. Now with the investigation in full swing and several people working the case, Matt finds himself in a race against time to solve the murders before others uncover the clues he’s finding and he himself falls under suspicion. He has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he’s trusted in order to clear his name and uncover the horrifying truth. It becomes all too apparent that the truth is on Matt’s side--time, however, is not.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel of 3BlackChicks Review (7/0)
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By Brian Webster of Apollo Guide (7/0)
            An implausible but still awfully fun noirish pot-boiler.

By Marjorie Baumgarten of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            We've seen Washington as this character before, in Fallen, The Bone Collector, The Siege -- not t...

By Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi of Broomfield Enterprise (7/0)
            It’s funny that this movie was called “Out of Time” because it sure seemed like some scenes had p...

By Michael Wilmington of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            Out of Time doesn't really make sense, but it's fun to watch.

By David Sterritt of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
            A serviceable picture, but hardly a top-notch vehicle for Washington's remarkable gifts.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Jules Brenner of Cinema Signals (7/0)
            Washington's complex cool and the question of making it come out right holds you in its grasp to ...

By Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (7/0)
            Out of Time is good time pulp nonsense seductively directed by Carl Franklin and acted with unusu...

By Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (7/0)
            A subtle role for Denzel Washington as a kind of tragic hero, a good man almost brought down by a...

By Peter Sobczynski of Critic Doctor (7/0)
            At no point do any of the characters ever behave like human beings and this is because they aren’...

By Pamela Troy of culturevulture.net (7/0)
            The sure-handed direction of Carl Franklin...makes a complex story both lucid and believable.

By Boo Allen of Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (7/0)
            Denzel Washington shines in Carl Franklin's thriller about a man trapped, working against time.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/0)
            This dramatic thriller wastes some good performances, some snappy dialogue and some surprisingly ...

By Dragan Antulov of Draxblog Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Franklin seems to be aware that the audience knows what is going to happen.

By John J. Puccio of DVDTown.com (7/0)
            More exciting than smart or chic or witty, Out of Time is relaxing, delightfully old-fashioned en...

By David Foucher of EDGE Boston (7/0)
            Denzel Washington's newest thriller is a lackluster piece; it's all been done before, and far bet...

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            It's perfectly good as a mystery-thriller, I suppose, but it could have been so much more.

By Jake Euker of F5 (Wichita, KS) (7/0)
            The suspense is killing, but the sense of being in the hands of a skilled storyteller is relaxing...

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Eugene Novikov of Film Blather (7/0)
            Knows how to have fun, and isn't afraid of breaking some plausibility rules to do it.

By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (7/0)
            Only good enough to remind of the kind of filmmaker that Franklin has been and, hope springing et...

By Daniel Eagan of Film Journal International (7/0)
            Carefully crafted and acted, Out of Time is an enjoyable but hardly compelling thriller that coul...

By Sean O'Connell of filmcritic.com (7/0)
            After a while, you start to realize there are only so many grains of salt we can swallow to help ...

By Larry Carroll of FilmStew.com (7/0)
            If you base your decision on the poster, you will miss a fairly inventive, atmospheric and endear...

By Eric Lurio of Greenwich Village Gazette (7/0)
            A great way to waste an afternoon or evening.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Ross Anthony of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
            Denzel has made better pictures.

By Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews (7/0)
            Cute but way too predicable.

By Bob Bloom of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
            (The movie is) like one of those little kids’ puzzles with only six big pieces; it doesn’t take m...

By James Sanford of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/0)
            Screenwriter Dave Collard doesn't give the movie much of an ending -- the story's rough edges are...

By Ella Taylor of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
            At its best, Franklin's work is stylish and headily atmospheric.

By Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
            Entertaining enough if you don't get picky about the details.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Nick Schager of Lessons of Darkness (7/0)
            Second-rate Hitchcock.

By Austin O'Connor of Lowell Sun (7/0)
            I have a policy about life insurance policies in movies like this: Don’t be the beneficiary. Just...

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
            We laugh at each new twist and turn, but we're also fascinated by how the hero will get himself o...

By Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (7/0)
            Out of Time isn't entirely memorable, and it contains enough plot holes to drive a train through,...

By Duane Dudek of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
            [Franklin's] subtle use of local color adds verisimilitude to a scenario that is a quart or two l...

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            It has about as much logic as Iraq apparently has weapons of mass destruction.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By David N. Butterworth of Movie Boeuf (7/0)
            Washington's performance -- and the clever manipulations of the script (by David Collard) -- keep...

By Frank Ochieng of Movie Eye (7/0)
            ...the dreary formulaic plot supported by scattered pedestrian performances doesn’t reinforce the...

By Marty Mapes of Movie Habit (7/0)
            It's still not original or artistic, but it's effective at getting your blood pumping

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
            Lathan and Mendes are both exceptionally fine, and Cain is nicely creepy and menacing. Wisecracki...

By Michael Elliott of Movie Parables (7/0)
            A script with many logical flaws is nearly redeemed by sharp acting and crisp direction

By Jeffrey Westhoff of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (7/0)
            The ending is several shades too blanc for true noir, but director Carl Franklin leads us through...

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
            Just not smart enough to allow one to swallow all the coincidences and contrivances on the way to...

By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Out of time simply ran out of sense for it to be more than another disposable pic.

By Jeanne Aufmuth of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
            A roller-coaster ride of a thriller, steeped in suspense and the kind of hair-raising twists that...

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            “Out of Time” moves so swiftly that you won’t look at your watch during the two hours that this t...

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            ...tremendously entertaining throughout...

By Sarah Chauncey of Reel.com (7/0)
            The movie's path is mostly tedious and convoluted, but occasionally it ventures into compelling t...

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            If you're willing to forgive some unlikely scenarios, Out of Time is cracking good fun

By Robin Clifford of Reeling Reviews (7/0)
            a well-made, well-acted and entertaining suspense story that works more often than not.

By Jack Garner of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (7/0)
            A stylish and entertaining Southern thriller in the Body Heat tradition, but with a bit less logi...

By Peter Travers of Rolling Stone (7/0)
             It's a kick to watch Denzel Washington do a movie just for the hot, sexy fun of it.

By Joe Baltake of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
            Washington has never been more of a movie star than he is here.

By Charles Taylor of Salon.com (7/0)
            A consistent pleasure.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Paula Nechak of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
            Franklin is noted for his forays into the underbelly of brutality and betrayal, and his 1992 cult...

By Moira MacDonald of Seattle Times (7/0)
            A well-performed, perfectly watchable thriller that's nonetheless as generic as its title.

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            Franklin's direction is blandly by the book; we know all the plot holes will be ignored, and that...

By Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine (7/0)
            Out of Time is no less inconsequential than Matchstick Men but works hard to make the audience pa...

By Rob Blackwelder of SPLICEDWire (7/0)
            Until its unfortunate surrender to a formulaic finish, Out of Time is one taut, twisty and creati...

By Paul Povse of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (7/0)
            A peppy and perspiring timewaster, but we don't mind.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (7/0)
            The film never digs beyond its skin-deep roots.

By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
            You can be entertained and still walk away thinking this movie is a disappointment.

By Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide (4/3)
            Slick but ludicrously contrived.

By Claudia Puig of USA Today (7/0)
            Out of Time seems out of another time and place.

By Jeffrey Chen of Window to the Movies (7/0)
            Gets a lot of mileage from its specialty, which happens to be the close call.

By Daniel M. Kimmel of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (7/0)
            Director Carl Franklin previously worked with Washington in the criminally overlooked Devil in a ...

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Michael Szymanski of Zap2it.com (7/0)
            Carl Franklin seems to have been trying for a long time to recreate the noir thriller success of ...

By John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            Skillful, straight-ahead storytelling...

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (3/4) No reference
            A blah title for a surprisingly taut, energetic film, which just begs to be called Run Denzel Run...

By Bill Muller of Arizona Republic (3/4) No reference
            Out of Time? More like Out of Ideas.

By James Hill of BET.com (3/4) No reference
            But Washington hasn't made a movie like this in a long time, and those hoping that "Time" will be...

By Shlomo Schwartzberg of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
            Dave Collards' script is certainly inventive and complex but its plot threads quickly unravel as ...

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Pablo Villaca of Cinema em Cena (3/4) No reference
            O roteiro acaba negligenciando um aspecto que deveria ser importante para o herói: a inteligência...

By Bill Pearis of Citysearch (3/4) No reference
            Despite being entirely unrealistic, this is a mildly entertaining movie thanks to its breezy tone...

By Mary F. Pols of Contra Costa Times (3/4) No reference
            The movie is standard fare, a mindless-enough plot that draws strength from its appealing setting...

By Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing (3/4) No reference
            Negligible piece of pulp fiction.

By MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (3/4) No reference
            [A] Double Indemnity for the 21st century...

By Donald Munro of Fresno Bee (3/4) No reference
            Washington is too caviar of a presence for this reasonably compelling, standard-issue thriller.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Kit Bowen of Hollywood.com (3/4) No reference
            Even though it portends to be full of twists and turns, you're really not going to be terribly su...

By Liz Braun of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
            Out Of Time is a cop thriller with a great cast. Trouble is, you may feel as if you've seen it al...

By Louis B. Hobson of Jam! Movies (3/4) No reference
            Out of Time holds enough twists, surprises and laughs to make it a fun ride to the very last fram...

By Marshall Fine of Journal News (Westchester, NY) (3/4) No reference
            An enjoyable ride.

By Robert W. Butler of Kansas City Star (3/4) No reference
            A tepid thriller.

By Danny Minton of KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (3/4) No reference
            This is an average movie for an above average actor.

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Bob Strauss of Los Angeles Daily News (3/4) No reference
            While the story's many manipulations can't help but put us on edge, there is very little in the w...

By Jeff Strickler of Minneapolis Star Tribune (3/4) No reference
            Out of Time takes its time getting going, but once it finally reaches cruising speed, it moves al...

By James Rocchi of Netflix (3/4) No reference
            Florida noir reteams Devil in a Blue Dress's director and star -- with less intriguing results.

By Shawn Levy of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
            What Out of Time lacks in logic, coherence and plausibility, it compensates for, more or less, wi...

By Jay Boyar of Orlando Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            It's great to see Franklin back in top form.

By Gary Thompson of Philadelphia Daily News (3/4) No reference
            Can you see the ending coming a mile way? Sure you can. But in this case, getting there is way mo...

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Carrie Rickey of Philadelphia Inquirer (3/4) No reference
            The most purely entertaining thriller since No Way Out.

By David Elliott of San Diego Union-Tribune (3/4) No reference
            Dynamic but obsessively remote from reality, Out of Time is like a drive-in movie for a car junky...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson of San Francisco Examiner (3/4) No reference
            Franklin ramps the heart-thumping pace up and keeps it there for so long, the film feels like a s...

By Phoebe Flowers of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (3/4) No reference
            While it breaks no new ground, Out of Time seizes familiar story lines and gussies them up just e...

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) No reference
            Stylish, suspenseful and spiked with sly wit.

By Josh Larsen of Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (3/4) No reference
            The middle 40 minutes...offer some of the most intense moviegoing of the year. Too bad the booken...

                         Reviews of Out of Time
By Jonathan R. Perry of Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (3/4) No reference
            Without Denzel Washington's charm — the cocked head, the sly, toothy grin and eyes that scream 't...

By Desson Thomson of Washington Post (3/4) No reference
            A bleakly comic, palm-sweaty hoot.

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Monarch Pictures
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM)