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Movie Review: Nick Of Time

The premise is interesting: a movie that unfolds entirely in real time. Well, almost real time. Johnny Depp plays a dad whose daughter is kidnapped and the only way he can save her is to assassinate someone. It stretches plausibility pretty thin, but it does make for a reasonably enjoyable thriller. Lots of people in it I recognized (Detective Lewis as the cab driver? A shame that part didn't amount to anything...) which was kind of interesting for such a random movie. Johnny Depp didn't really have much to do, but he's always watchable. I thought the woman playing the assassination target did a fine job, although the ending became a bit muddled and I wasn't sure if I had really read her performance correctly. There was also a particularly poor dream/fantasy sequence, which seemed out of place. But, overall, there are worse ways you can spend 90 minutes. But maybe I'm a sucker for movies with Charles Dutton.