That was an excellent one.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Impenetrability, that's irresponsible, is vulnerability that's responsible. Vulnerability is weakness. Weakness that's responsible is weakness that's careful. Weakness that's careful is strength that's careless.Carelessness is mindlessness. Mindlessness is randomness. Randomness is lack of intent.Strength is authority. Authority is logic. Logic is the lack of intent - logic is the lack of foresight.Foresight is foreknowledge. Foreknowledge is advantage.Logic is the lack of advantage.Advantage is necessity of battle.Logic is the lack of battle being necessary.The lack of battle is peace.Logic is peace being necessary.Necessity is certainty.Logic is peace being certain.Certainty is redundancy of battleLogic is peace being redundancy of battle.Logic is peace being the illusion of pointlessnessLogic is the illusion of pointlessness being goodLogic is the weakness of illusion being goodThe weakness of illusion is the strength of realityThe strength of reality is the illusion of strengthLogic is the goodness of illusion being goodLogic is the goodness of false goodnessLogic is the goodness of fair evilFair evil is the illusion of evilLogic is the goodness of evil being an illusionThough charming, Nick of Time is a disheartening film for its ethos is that goodness should be preoccupied with evil just being an illusion - or better yet, that it's good that illusion can't be inspiring

The clock is ticking for Johnny Depp in Nick of Time, a twist-filled, race-against-time thriller directed by John Badham. And indeed it is a race, filmed in "real time" so that on screen events unfold minute by nail-biting minute as they would in real life.Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton and Courtney Chase co-stars in this film.A stranger pulled into a deadly scheme races against time to save his daughter in this thriller. Gene Watson is an accountant who comes to L.A. with his ten-year-old daughter Lynn to attend a funeral. On the street, Gene and Lynn are pulled aside by Mr. Smith and Ms. Jones, who flash what look like police badges and usher them into a van. Gene soon discovers that he's been kidnapped, and his captors have an unusual demand that is if Gene does not murder Gov. Eleanor Grant within 75 minutes, his daughter will be killed. Gene now has just an hour and a quarter to tip off the authorities, spare Gov. Grant, and find out what Smith and Jones are trying to do, along with saving his daughter's life. He finds a much-needed ally in one-legged shoe-shine man Huey. This is a fast and furious 90 minutes that doesn't waste a second.Also,it is an exciting albeit illogical tale of mystery and suspense.Unfortunately,this is an average movie that was saved by the excellent performances of the cast particularly Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken. Aside from that,the plot is clichéd and predictable as well as it has been already seen in many movies before even with "real time" involved in the premise.

Another "thriller" that offers little suspense.Depp tries to make this work. He can't. Walken barely walks through this, undoubtedly because he knew there was little point after seeing just how poor a job the screenwriter did on this movie. Gloria Reuben and the rest of the cast are wasted, as well. The premise would stretch credulity in the hands of a master director. Badham is NOT that (though he did a decent job with "Point of No Return" in 1993). Save your time and money. Watch the Bridget Fonda flick I just mentioned. Or try "No Way Out" or its predecessor "The Big Clock" if you want something old school. Just don't bother with this.

Johnny Depp as your average Joe C.P.A.? Naw, say it isn't so. Isn't this the guy who rose to fame with strange robotic blades for fingers, with an eye-patch and catchy phrases, with a reputation for playing the strange and unusual? Well, the role may not be strange or unusual, but the movie certainly is. For one thing, it is extremely rare for a 90 minute movie to actually happen in 90 minutes. But Nick of Time is about the occurrences in Gene Watson's life over a span of 90 minutes.Christopher Walken shines as the SOB cop/assassin who manipulates Depp's character, and Roma Maffia excels as his partner. I think the most interesting aspect of this film is combining two powerful character actors (Depp and Walken) across from each other.The action is fast and non-stop, and the tension builds throughout the film. When Depp finally finds help in the form of Charles S. Dutton, a shoe shine man in the lobby of the Bonaventure, the help comes in the strangest way.Rated R for violence and language, this is a interesting, breakneck paced film that keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.