punisherversion1 241: Out of Time. This movie is the pure definition of an page turner thriller. This movie puts Denzel Washington's Florida police chief into a situation that seems to be dragging him further and further down. This situation is something that he does bring on himself. He is cheating on his wife with a high school sweetheart, herself still married to an abusive former football player played by Dean Cain. But after she puts him as the beneficiary on her life insurance and then she and her husband end up dead, the police chief finds himself as the prime suspect. It is definitely a goofy movie. All these reveals come complete with swelling music. Denzel Washington does his best to get ahead of the investigation which is naturally headed up by his wife. Just coincidence after coincidence. Nothing really comes out of left field for this film. You seem everything coming a mile away and the comedic relief medical examiner is too over the top and kind of grates on your nerves. If you like this sort of movie, it's okay but ultimately for me it's just not very good. I give this movie a D.

adonis98-743-186503 A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Out of Time is one of Denzel Washington's most underrated films it's full of non stop tension and thriller i was on the edge of my seat in every scene i wanted him not to get caught my only complain which i wouldn't call a complain in the first place is that the whole plot element of the film or in this case the twist can be seen by miles but still that doesn't ruin a what i can call a perfect action thriller because this film had a lot of good tension and Denzel, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan and Dean Cain gave some truly great performances and in my opinion i'll give it an A+

chaos-rampant This is wholly typical to look at as "wrong man" thriller but makes more interesting sense when you take stock of it as modern noir. It begins with a man who is going around with someone's wife. He may be well meaning and the husband an abusive dolt, but there's something not quite right here and will need to be settled.So his tiptoeing in the dark takes noir shape in a narrative where he finds himself at the mercy of a plot where he was only being used, a character in a story prepared by cunning authors to exploit what he thought was love. The main tool for giving shape to turmoil is that the anxiety is so overwhelming, he splinters in two; one where he is pretending to work the case where he has been framed as culprit, the other where he must rush to prevent himself from being outed, tinkering with the story, changing clues.I like how it is all laid out in the very first scene, the scene of the narrator's emergence into the noir world; he has answered a call for a break-in to someone's house, she says it was someone exactly like him, he tries to seduce, then she does. Then we pull back to have it revealed that they know each other and were only playing, the call an excuse for the affair. But of course in due time we get to note that she was seducing outside the seduction, the affair an excuse.Along the way we have Florida as the evocative backdrop, some ordinary mechanics of tension as he fights to reclaim control.It's brought back full circle in the end where he emerges from the nightmare of this illicit affair and, having realized the hazard to his soul, is relieved to be taken back by his estranged wife (she was mightily impressed that he didn't kill and steal, okay). So with Denzel on the cover this might seem like any thriller, but it's from a noir genealogy. Denzel and this filmmaker had made a more alluring noir prior in Devil in a Blue Dress, this is more mechanical.Noir Meter: 3/4 | Neo-noir or post noir? Neo

patrick powell 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.