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

Nick Of Time is one of those short nifty films that just gets by by being cute, (so darn cute here) throwing everything in, but the kitchen sink. Depp and daughter arrive at an L.A. train station where they are approached by two mysterious figures (Walken and Mafia, like you've never seen her before) posing as plain clothes cops. At the flash of a badge, the daughter is snatched from Depp, and Walken gives him an ultimatum: assassinate this senator (Mason) within 75 minutes, of the daughter will be killed. These pro killers will carry out on their promise too. So we're working with real time, where it's hard to believe all of what Depp goes through, happens in this time space. I'll be honest, it's almost improbable, and you will notice by the cut back to time readings, time moves slow. It is interesting though in how Depp does his own thing, using his smarts, trying to figure an answer out of the dilemma, and what he resorts to. There are holes in this film, trust me. Depp plays it down the line, Mr Goody clean, in one of his sanest roles. He's superb, where Walken is fantastic as always, and menacing where Mafia is scary and disturbing. Mason with her doting public figure character, couldn't be finer, where Strauss, as a bad guy? yeah, and Mason's husband, does well. There are some thrilling turns in this, where Depp must outwit a sea of good and bad guys, but on the whole, NOT is weak, get by thriller, written by the guy who strangely enough wrote 94's dark, flat, adult pic, The Pornographer, where his baby was 82's The Beach Girls. NOT does have a truly thrilling and spectacular climax, bringing it's quality up, in something too little, too late. It isn't one of the brightest films, or brightest written, parts, involving dialogue too, seemed to be made up as it went, by a writer who's written his share of pics, and a consistent director, who's made his share.

I was picturing this during the movie: They just wrapped filming a movie with Johhny Depp, and the studio next door just wrapped filming a movie with Christopher Walken, then the directors of the two movies met and were like: hey, we wrapped early, we got some extra time on our hands, wanna make another movie real quick? And they just did. And it was awesome.You know, this movie just entertained the crap outta me. It's short, quick and not the least bit realistic. (I don't like to use that word when describing movies though, reaslism in movies hardly exists at all) But this movie does not try to be, either.It's like a mix between a video game and an episode of MacGyver, or some sort of light TV entertainment. Feels kind of like a dream, or something. Johnny Depp and Christopher Walken both have enough charisma to carry a movie by themselves, here they share the burden.What I'm trying to say is: It's all good, man! I really liked it. It's exciting and fun.

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.