Sometime in the future technology has progressed to the point where individuals have the ability to sell their life force. Let’s face it, when you are in your twenties you don’t think about living to be 80. So being able to sell 10 years of your life for half a million dollars (I think. That is based on the value of the insurance payout in the movie being 2 million. Or was it billion? )

Meet Max. He is happily married and works for the company that brokers in life. He is good at what he does. Is it morally and ethically questionable? That is a tough question. If given the choice and you decide to sell 10 years in order to have a stable and nice 50 years of life. Nobody made you make that choice. Now an interesting throw away line in the movie comes up when we hear a prison option. Apparently an inmate could choose to forfeit 20 years of life to terminate their sentence instantly. Getting into a more fuzzy and blurred line now. But the line is truly crossed when we get to the catalyst of the conflict in the movie. The apartment Max and his wife live in burns down. Insurance calls them liable for it, and we find out that his wife put her life force down as collateral. She has to forfeit 38 years to pay off the debt.

Now we have a line crossed. Max is unable to fix this, no matter what he tries. After losing 38 years, his now senior citizen wife chooses to leave him. Her belief that he would be better off finding someone new to grow old with, essentially.

Max decides to go rogue. He kidnaps the head of his company who has gotten younger thanks to his wife. He leaves a spray paint tag belonging to a group that opposes selling life force. The plan is to forcibly transfer the life force back to his wife. Another line is crossed. But in his mind, that life should have never been taken from his wife.

I don’t want to go beyond that because there are some bits worth not being spoiled.

I’m going to contradict myself a bit here, because I really liked this movie. But I can only give it 6 stars. The end was messy as hell. It felt like they were out of money and instead of having 20 minutes of epilogue and wrap up, they condensed it into 2 minutes with no explanation. It is absolutely worth watching. Just a shame they didn’t stick the landing on it.