Synopsis
Ninety minutes. Six bullets. No choice.
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
Nick of Time
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Johnny Depp Courtney Chase Charles S. Dutton Christopher Walken Roma Maffia Peter Strauss Gloria Reuben Marsha Mason Miguel Nájera Bill Smitrovich G. D. Spradlin Charles Carroll Yul Vazquez Edith Diaz Armando Ortega C.J. Bau Cynthena Sanders Dana Mackey Jerry Tondo Lance Hunter Voorhees John Azevedo Jr. Lance August Peter MacKenzie Rick Zieff Michael Chong Cynthia Noritake Holly Kuespert Pamela Dunlap Jan Speck Show All…
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Na żywo, В последний момент, A la hora señalada, Minutos Contados, Tiempo Límite, Meutre en Suspens, I sista sekunden, Gegen die Zeit, Minuti contati, Meurtre en suspens, Na Żywo, Viime hetkellä, 90 דקות לרצח, Holtidő, 千钧一发, V poslední chvíli, ニック・オブ・タイム, За нула време, Tempo Esgotado, 닉 오브 타임, Thời Khắc Quyết Định, Tam Zamanında, უკანასკნელ მომენტში, ฝ่าเส้นตาย เฉียดนรก, Par la peau des dents, В останню мить
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USAR
02 May 1996
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AustraliaM
09 May 1996
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Czechia12+
18 May 1996
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Japan
30 May 1996
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Hungary16
26 Jun 1996
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FranceTP
25 Jul 1996
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Germany16
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Australia
02 May 1996
- TheatricalM
Czechia
09 May 1996
- Theatrical12+
France
26 Jun 1996
- TheatricalTP
Germany
25 Jul 1996
- Theatrical16
Hungary
30 May 1996
- Theatrical16
Japan
18 May 1996
- Theatrical
USA
22 Nov 1995
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Popular reviews
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Solid ‘real-time’ 90’s shithouse thriller with a perpetually sweaty Depp falling into the wrong place wrong time hitchcockian role and a sinister Walken having being an evil prick. Fun, dumb, and entertaining but this would’ve been a better Hitchcock movie in 1956 with Edith Head costumes and a bewildered Jimmy Stewart.
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Add this to the long list of thrillers with completely inept criminal conspiracies. Also I'm absolutely furious that Depp's character isn't named Nick. Discussed on Episode 29 of The Suspense is Killing Us.
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Total missed opportunity by not having Depp’s character named “Nick.” But Walken’s far fetched timing steals the show. ⏱
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This was a great and simple action thriller starring Johnny Depp as the main character and Christopher Walken as the villain and they were both great.
The story follows a man, whose daughter gets kidnapped and he is given one hour to kill a politician to save her life.
The story was simple but exciting. The kidnapping felt a bit too easy and it was a bit unrealistic how much the villain was able to follow his every move. The ending also felt a bit weird and not really that satisfying.
All the stuff in between was very good though and I especially liked that the events happened in real time, since it made it more inclusive for me as… -
On one hand, this isn't very smart. It takes some really huge logic leaps, and asks that you not think too hard about the plot.
On the other, this is really fun. The pacing is relentless, and the movie wastes nary a second in its brisk 90 minute runtime.
This is fun! Especially if you love mid-budget 90s thrillers half as much as I do.
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Well, this is a nightmare. This was supposed to be clean and simple, remember? A high-powered rifle and it's over. But no, you had to get creative, drag some jerk in off the street, stick a gun in his hand and what? What the hell were you thinking?
+ 1/2 star for at least lampshading the sheer ridiculousness of its plot.
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Unfolding in real time, with its story taking place over same 90-minutes of its running time, John Badham's "Nick of Time" is a milquetoast thriller with a compelling gimmick. Though that gimmick does not power the film to tense, riveting highs, the film's cast and taut storytelling push the experience to rate as something, at least, above average.
Starring Johnny Depp as a man thrust into an assassination plot, the film follows as Depp's character is forced to carry out a violent agenda in order to keep his daughter safe. As he tries to separate friend from foe, the clock ticks down toward his most unfathomable nightmare.
The core narrative is a mostly bland political potboiler, but Badham's ability to…
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Badham isn’t Hitchcock (or De Palma) and this is largely ludicrous, even (or especially) the real time conceit, but as a lean genre exercise it’s inoffensive and *moves* which is more than I can say for anything similar being made twenty five years later; doesn’t hurt that Walken is suitably hysterical here, to the point that you really think he could shoot a child in the face and shrug it off
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Formulaic, fairly predictable but serviceable political conspiracy thriller. The premise is absurd, but the actors try their best and generally succeed in keeping the suspense going. That being how is Johnny Depp going to avoid doing what he's being forced to do and still save his daughter.
Johnny's average guy accountant look suits him, but really, as another reviewer said, his character should have been called Nick. -
Aggressively 90s and mostly frustrating, you will spend most of its short run time wondering how Christopher Walken has the greatest timing ever and had everything figured out, but yet comes up with the stupidest assassination plan imaginable. The plan: kidnap Johnny Depp’s daughter and force him to kill the Governor. There are so many ways for this type of plan to easily go south, even in a pre-cell phone world, but yet there is Walken, just in “the nick of time”. With such a quick pace, I didn’t actively dislike the movie and it’s entirely watchable, but it will induce more “oh come on”s than “go Johnny go”s.
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There were a whole spate of these sort of high-concept action thrillers throughout the late eighties and nineties. Most were straight-to-video tripe destined for the likes of similarly mediocre performers but a few were elevated to theatres.
Nick of Time straddles this divide as Depp was beginning to become a superstar (although this attempt to actionify him was never attempted again) he acquits himself well with looking stressed and then suddenly asserting himself.
ALL of these types of plot-driven movies have glaring logic holes into which the observant viewer can speculate as to the likelihood of such an event taking place, AND in the manner in which it does. This is not the point of such content. The viewer is invited to be carried along with events and put themselves into the position of the protagonist.
I can't believe I have to explain this to such learned aficionados of the artform.
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