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Is strongly reminiscent of both ''[[Logan's Run]]'' and ''[[The Fugitive]]'', though it's not a remake of either. It also shares some elements with ''[[Equilibrium]]''. [[Harlan Ellison]]<ref> © 2005 [[Harlan Ellison]]</ref> sued to try to get it withdrawn, but on November 4, 2011, he ultimately agreed to a settlement similar to what he got for ''[[The Terminator]]'' (i.e. his name will be added to the credits). He ultimately dropped the suit altogether before the month was out, having seen the film.

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* [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]: The rich indulge in this with their time. Will wins 1000 years thanks to it.

* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: Pretty much the whole point of the plot is Will stealing time from the immortal and giving it to the dying.

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: When Leon is stranded in the ghetto, away from his car and access to his time allotment, he's forced to walk until someone picks him up. Seemingly ''the entire town'' takes some time from their busy day to mock him, '''for the entire walk'''. You'd almost feel bad for him if the Timekeepers weren't portrayed as anything other than jerks who do nothing to help the common man.

* [[Leonine Contract]]: A way of life when bankruptcy kills you and everyone can see how much time you have to live if you refuse the deal. Pawn shops will fleece customers if they think they can get away with it (can't afford to wait a day until we open again, sucks to be you) while the biggest mogul in the country runs payday lending facilities with staggering interest.

* [[Life Will Kill You]]: Played straight in the story, brutally subverted by the setting. Within the story, characters die from the smallest mistakes, such as only keeping enough cash for the bus ride home (without knowing that the fee has been increased), or getting so absorbed in your duty that you don't take the time to refill your clock when you have the chance. On the political level, however, it is made clear that the system has been engineered for these kinds of mistakes to occur. The government is murdering their citizens on a genocidal level, while building in an element of randomization as an excuse to pretend that it's the victim's own fault.

* [[Ridiculous Future Inflation]]: The price of a cup of coffee jumps from 3 minutes to 4 minutes overnight, while the manufacturing quotas increase from week to week in order to obtain one's daily time infusion.

** It's even more ridiculous that the workers aren't actually told that the quota has been raised until they come to collect at the end of the shift.

* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: Raymond Leon, when Weis attempts to bribe him with effective immortality.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Philippe Weis. Unfortunately for him, Raymond Leon [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules|cannot be bought]].

* [[Scully Box]]: Sylvia's sky high purple heels.

* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: Overlaps with [[Ridiculous Future Inflation]]. Suffice it to say that the (relative) prices given for various items can border on the absurd.

** Possibly somewhat justified, in that it's implied that the economy is rigidly controlled and prices are set by the government or some central cartel under them based on the need to keep life spans under control, not based on actual value or supply and demand. Of course, that leaves them open to problems of command economies, such as shortages, not that the rich would care as they'd still have what they want/need, with first crack at everything.

 

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