Absolutely the worst movie.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Carl Franklin is good, but this isn't one of his best. Training Day is standout, but Out Of Time is pretty much a B movie with some fancy camera-work and a corny ending. Denzel Washington is also good, and here delivers what Denzel Washington can deliver, though I would like to see him in a more challenging role which demands he make an effort and doesn't just give us Denzel Washington.To be honest B movie with fancy camera-work says it all, although there were some good as well as some bad B movies. As for the plot of Out Of Time, you've seen it a hundred times before and although there are some moments of suspense when our hero Denzel, who has been a little foolish though not much gets in far too deep and has to think fast to get out of it again, there ain't much here you will remember in two days time.On reflection too much doesn't hang together, not least the romance between chief Washington and his soon to be ex-wife Detective Mendes. Either part could have been played by any number of other actors and the film wouldn't have suffered unduly. Oh, well. Give it a whirl if you have nothing better to do, and if you have you haven't really missed much.

Matt Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington) is the police chief of Florida small town Banyan Key. He just cracked a big drug case confiscating $450k. He's getting divorced from fellow police officer Alex (Eva Mendes) and having an affair with Anne Merai Harrison (Sanaa Lathan) who is separated from violent husband Chris (Dean Cain). Anne has just been diagnosed with cancer, and Matt takes the $450k for Anne's treatment. However, the money, Anne and Chris all burnt up in a suspicious fire.This has a great noir sweaty style. Matt's questionable morality is interesting. I prefer his problems be forced upon him. However most of his problems are self-inflicted by his lack of judgment. There is a lot of things that needs to be overlook in this movie. While I like the style, the story needs a little help.

***SPOILERS*** Film noir murder drama with Denzel Washington as Baryan Key police chief Matt Whitlock who get's himself trapped in a fraudulent insurance scheme that almost lands him behind bars or in his grave. Trying to help his girlfriend Ann Harrison, Sanaa Latham, get treatment for her terminal cancer Whitlock uses $450,000.00 of confiscated drug money he has locked in the police station's safe to pay her way to Switzerland and get the life saving treatment that she so desperately needs. As things turn out both Ann and her abusive husband Chris, Dean Cain, end up dead in a suspicious fire that engulfed their home that also incinerated the 450 G's he gave her. What made things even worse for Wintlock is that he was put by Ann on an insurance policy as the sole beneficiary for a $1,000,000.00 payment in the case of her death! This put Wintlock on the spot in being the #1 suspect in both Ann & Chris deaths that has now been declared or upgraded as an arson murder. And as for the now gone 450's, that he expected the insurance money to replace, Wintlock has to answer to the DEA in what happened to it. A lot like "Body Heat" that covered the same ground as well as territory, Southern Florida, the film "Out of Time" has Whitlock set up in a complicated scheme to defraud the insurance company that has all the evidence pointing at him. ***SPOILERS*** Backtracking to get to the the meat of the matter Whintlock finds out that Ann and Chris, together with a phony doctor, had used him to get their hands on the drug money and end up framing him not only for stealing it but murdering them as well! Now with time running out and the ax about to fall on him, by the DEA agents finding out he heisted the drug money, Wintlock can only hope that he get's to both Ann & Chris before the law gets to him as well as them skipping out of the country and leaving him holding the bag!***MAJOR SPOILER***Beautiful Florida photography as well as fine acting from it's cast especially the sexy and hot as a Florida summer Eva Mendez, who looks like a young Raquel Welch, as Wintlock's estrange wife Alex as Baryan Key's top homicide detective make the somewhat uneven storyline and unnecessary sub-plots in "Out of Time" more then watchable. In the end Wintlock finally tracks down those who tried to frame him,Ann & Chris, but ends up at the end of a gun barrel pointed straight at his head and about to go off. That's until Alex shows up in the nick of time to prevent that from happening!

Out of Time is directed by Carl Franklin and written by David Collard. It stars Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain and John Billingsley. Music is by Graeme Revell and cinematography by Theo Van de Sande.Matthias Whitlock (Washington) is chief of police in little Banyan Key, Florida. Respected for his work and basically honest in the line of duty. Away from work, however, his marriage to Alex (Mendes) has failed, he's having an affair with an abused wife and he likes a little drink on duty. So when his lover Anne Harrison (Lathan) springs on him the shocking news that she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, it naturally shakes his world. But this news is merely the start of something bigger, for pretty soon Matt will be in the unusual situation of having to stay one step of his own kind or face dire consequences.It's a film proudly wearing a badge of homage to film noir of the 40s. In fact it very much plays out as a contemporary riff on John Farrow's excellent Ray Milland starrer of 1948, The Big Clock. But that's fine, especially when you have some knowing craft in front and behind the camera in the shape of Franklin (Devil in a Blue Dress) and Washington (take your pick here really!). Yet as great as Franklin and Washington's work is, they all owe a debt to Collard's screenplay. Inventive in how it plays out as a plot, with it's many tight situations laid down for Washington's duped law enforcer to try and get out of, the screenplay has a knack for deft humour, often sly, which is something that even some of the hardest of noirs from the golden era are tinted with. The secret is being able to blend the humour with quality moments of suspense, and this picture manages to do that with some interest.Film also benefits greatly from the tight atmosphere created by photographer de Sande. Sweaty Florida in daylight doesn't cry out as being a good starting point for an offshoot of film noir (real Florida locations were thankfully used), but the scenic beauty is never realised during the drama sequences, colours are toned down, even for a stunning red sky, and this perfectly becomes at one with a near frantic Washington as the tricksters of Banyan Key start to close in on him. It's nice too see, also, interracial couples forming the core of the story, while the dominance of sexuality is firmly given a shrewd work over by director and writer. There's good thought gone in to making this, enough to steer it away from charges of just being a faux neo-noir production.Problems? Yes, a few. Inevitability of outcome is hard to shake off whilst viewing it, especially for those well versed in the genre (sub-genre). Clichés and contrivances are stacked up like a pile of cop thriller 101 books, and Franklin goes smug (daft) by dropping in a couple of slow frame sequences that the film clearly didn't need. While the big showdown in the finale lacks a gut punch. But this is a good viewing, sexy at times and always eye catching, it also pleasingly chooses perky dialogue over action to make its dramatic point. The cast around Washington enhance the quality: Lathan in the tricky role shows a number of layered gears, Cain is imposing as a bully boy husband (where did this Cain go?) and Billingsley almost sneaks in and steals the movie as the loyal and stoic comedy side-kick.So pesky flaws aside, this is a good recommendation as a night in movie for those with a kink for contemporary neo-noir. 7/10