A film by Carl Franklin
Out of Time is a reasonably slick drama about who really committed a crime. The setting is Banyon Key, Florida and Matt Whitlock (Denzel Washington) is the chief of police. He is having a rather torrid affair with Ann Harrison (Sanaa Lathan), a woman who is married to a former football player Chris Harrison (Dean Cain). Ann has long since told Matt that Chris hits her, and naturally Matt is angry about this, but because he is keeping the affair secret he can t exactly confront Chris about the hitting.
It turns out that Ann has cancer and that she cannot afford any treatment. Matt tries to help get her the money, including a scheme that would permit her to cash in on her life insurance policy while she is still alive. These schemes don t work so Matt decides to steal money from the police station that was captured in a drug raid. Ann changes her life insurance policy to now list Matt as the beneficiary. Matt tries to give Ann the money late one night and is seen going to her house. With the way the film is edited as Matt walks away we see the house now in flames before Matt reappears back at his home. Both Ann and Chris are believed dead (there are two charred skeletons in the house, and Matt knows that he will be the number one suspect if any hint of his connection to Ann leaks out.
The rest of the film is Matt playing damage control, trying to hide his involvement as well as figure out what happened. Matt s ex wife Alex (Eva Mendes) is the lead federal investigator on the case and perhaps because of how close she used to be to Matt, she is able to see that Matt is acting a little strangely when nobody else even has a clue. As the movie progresses, there are twists upon twists (especially at the end) and some things begin to be a stretch in credulity.
This is a decent enough movie, but the way Matt is able to get away with so many things in this movie stretches the bounds of how believable the action is. Unfortunately, when that happens I get taken out of the movie and start analyzing. That is never a good thing. Out of Time is a bit on the predictable side and when the final and biggest twist happens at the end I thought, Well, of course, why wouldn t [that person]? . What you get out of this movie depends on what you are looking for. If you want a fairly fun piece of entertainment with an extremely talented lead actor this is for you. This is not one of the Oscar heavy hitters and it doesn t have that extra bit of something special that made Training Day so good, but this is a decent movie.
Out of Time is a reasonably slick drama about who really committed a crime. The setting is Banyon Key, Florida and Matt Whitlock (Denzel Washington) is the chief of police. He is having a rather torrid affair with Ann Harrison (Sanaa Lathan), a woman who is married to a former football player Chris Harrison (Dean Cain). Ann has long since told Matt that Chris hits her, and naturally Matt is angry about this, but because he is keeping the affair secret he can t exactly confront Chris about the hitting.
It turns out that Ann has cancer and that she cannot afford any treatment. Matt tries to help get her the money, including a scheme that would permit her to cash in on her life insurance policy while she is still alive. These schemes don t work so Matt decides to steal money from the police station that was captured in a drug raid. Ann changes her life insurance policy to now list Matt as the beneficiary. Matt tries to give Ann the money late one night and is seen going to her house. With the way the film is edited as Matt walks away we see the house now in flames before Matt reappears back at his home. Both Ann and Chris are believed dead (there are two charred skeletons in the house, and Matt knows that he will be the number one suspect if any hint of his connection to Ann leaks out.
The rest of the film is Matt playing damage control, trying to hide his involvement as well as figure out what happened. Matt s ex wife Alex (Eva Mendes) is the lead federal investigator on the case and perhaps because of how close she used to be to Matt, she is able to see that Matt is acting a little strangely when nobody else even has a clue. As the movie progresses, there are twists upon twists (especially at the end) and some things begin to be a stretch in credulity.
This is a decent enough movie, but the way Matt is able to get away with so many things in this movie stretches the bounds of how believable the action is. Unfortunately, when that happens I get taken out of the movie and start analyzing. That is never a good thing. Out of Time is a bit on the predictable side and when the final and biggest twist happens at the end I thought, Well, of course, why wouldn t [that person]? . What you get out of this movie depends on what you are looking for. If you want a fairly fun piece of entertainment with an extremely talented lead actor this is for you. This is not one of the Oscar heavy hitters and it doesn t have that extra bit of something special that made Training Day so good, but this is a decent movie.