Still not convinced, the whole premise seems very contrived to me.
Its like someone came up with this great idea but forgot to think it through to the end.
Is there no Time black-market? Can't underground/free geneticists in other countries make the treatment permanent? Is this worldwide or just the US?
I mean the whole setup borders heavily on cyberpunk, or in this case biopunk, except that in those stories we always have the hackers, the crackers, the punks, the underground that works against or around the system.
For good reason I might add, because it showcases the adaptability of humanity, the flexibility and the perseverance.
Its what made Gattaca work, the underdog gaming the system, the rebellion against the system inherent in any good cyber or bioPUNK.
Its like in this universe all the people just accepted the reality it presents us, without question, and then by chance Hero Timberlake gets the chance to liberate the people and turn the tables on the "bad guys".
In Gattaca i never got the feeling that Vincent was the ONLY ONE to ever game the system, I imagined others taking advantage of those loopholes in the system too. Vincents was only a high profile gamble since he wanted to go to space, but how many cheated their way into other areas?
In Gattaca i also never felt like there is an antagonist per se, the investigator just did his job, some people inside the space agency were sympathetic even when they found out (the doc).
The system was the enemy.
In "In Time" we have a group of antagonists, the rich. I get the feeling that its not even a problem inherent in the system presented, but rather the people running it.
This story feels a lot weaker than Gattaca.
Also I don't particularly like to be heavy-handedly preached to (even if the message is true and worthwhile).