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|  | Director: Carl Franklin
Actors: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain, John Billingsley
Studio: MGM
Buy New: $9.99
as of 3/16/2010 07:10 CDT details
Seller: Amazon Video On Demand
Rating:  126 reviews
Sales Rank: 30624
Genre: Action
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 106 Minutes
ASIN: B00154ZM9E
Theatrical Release Date: October 3, 2003
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 great fun entertainment October 7, 2003
jj (ny)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I went to see this after seeing such excellent reviews. I agree with those reviews. Best movie of 2003. Pretty Darn Close. A enjoyable murder mystery. Denzel Washington plays Chief Whitlock an cop who was set up for a murder he did not committ. The search is on for the real suspect. You'll never guess the ending.
 A good date movie. August 31, 2006
L. Wilson (North Carolina)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A good date movie. Sanaa going toe to toe with the great one, Denzel. Do your thang girl!
 Out of Time June 17, 2006
Lyuba
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie has one of the best actors of our time. The plot of the story is really interesting. This movie is a good friday night movie.
Great popcorn muncher February 24, 2006
Damian Gunn (I am everywhere)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This film is in no way a classic, BUT, and thats a BIG BUT...this film is very entertaining and has great replay value. Washington is a superb actor and although this is not his bet work he does quite well alongside the charming and scene stealing Eva Mendez and Sanaa Lathon as well as Supermans Dean Cain. The plot revolves around a murder that points directly to Florida detective Washington (since he made some BAD choices in the days proceeding)...so it's a race against time to clear his name and move the evidence away from him. As I said, it's not perfect...and the plot is a littel shakey but the acting is on point and the action is in your face so Out of Time delivers in the fun factor and will have you watching intently as you enjoy every frame.
Good, But It Had Even Better Potential August 21, 2005
C. O. DeRiemer (San Antonio, Texas, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Matt Whitlock, chief of police for the sleepy little south Florida town of Banyan Key, has a big problem. Whitlock (Denzel Washington) has taken $500,000 in drug money from the evidence room at police headquarters and given it to a woman he's been having a passionate affair with, Ann Harrison (Sanaa Lathan). Harrison has learned that she has aggressive cancer of the lungs and liver; a trip to Europe for expensive alternative therapy is her only hope. Her husband, Chris Harrison (Dean Cain), is a thug who's a security guard for the town's hospital. Ann Harrison works out a $1 million life insurance policy on herself and names Whitlock the beneficiary. He is sure that one way or another he can replace the money before the drug case will ever come to trial. Then three things happen. Both Ann and Chris Harrison are burned to death, beyond recognition, when an arsonist sets fire to their house. Second, Whitlock's estranged wife, Alex (Eva Mendes), who is divorcing him and is a homicide detective, is given the double murder. And third, the drug case becomes active and Federal agents want all the evidence, including the money. Everything starts to point at Whitlock as the probable murderer. It's only a matter of time before his wife lines in the dots. To prove his innocence he has to stay one step ahead of his wife and one step ahead of the Feds. And he has to move a lot faster than the real bad guys, once he figures out who they are.
This is a movie that has a lot going for it. The locale looks great. Banyan Key is a place with big trees down main street, seedy houseboats and crab shacks. It's a place that's hot in the daytime and sweaty at night. Denzel Washington as usual turns in a performance that's shrewd and likable. The plot is nicely convoluted, even though it relies on some things falling into place a little too conveniently.
What's not to like about it? For starters, the screenplay. There's too much exposition and too little energy. It took a long time, it seemed to me, before the plot started cooking. None of the characters, even Washington's Matt Whitlock, grabbed me sufficiently to care much about them, and the villains weren't very engaging. The casting also, for me, had a major flaw. Eva Mendes is a good looking woman, but at least in this movie she shows a limited acting range. She just couldn't make her character the kind of smart, skeptical, strong woman who might have given Washington a run for his money. Their scenes together seemed to me to be conventionally Hollywood stuff.
To see Washington play a first rate police chief in a movie with a lot of charm and energy, check out The Mighty Quinn. To see a movie starring Washington and directed by Carl Franklin that hits all burners, check out Devil in a Blue Dress. Out of Time, for me, is pleasant to watch, but maybe not one to keep. The DVD has a number of typical extras such as outtakes, screen tests, "making of" feature and so on. The DVD picture looks great.
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