Nick Of Time (DVD)

When reserved and placid Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) arrives at a Los Angeles train station with his young daughter Lynn he never knew that his life could possibly change forever after a chance encounter with two would-be police officers. When a man and a woman posing as police ask Gene to step into their van he obliges but it's not long before a nightmare ensues for Gene. Gene is told that he must assassinate the Governor of California (Marsha Mason) and if it's not done by 1.30pm his daughter will be killed. It's already almost 12.30pm so Gene must get a move on if he wants his daughter to live passed the next hour... Up until last night I had ...  Read the complete review

The Nick of Time produced by John Badham ( Bird on a Wire, Saturday Night Fever) is the third take on one of Hitchcock's best thrillers, The Man Who New Too Much which was first released in 1934. Badham's film was released in 1995 and has a slight twist in the story. It all starts on a normal afternoon for accountant Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) as time ticks by without incident. But not for long. He is about to become entangled in one of those high-octane dramas that holds the general population gripped when played out on the news. Fate has just dealt him a terrifying hand. Arriving at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles for an appointment, Gene and ...  Read the complete review

Nick of Time is a 1995 film directed by John Badham. The film features a rather Germanic looking Johnny Depp who looks quite a long way from his stylish persona as Jack Sparrow as we know him mostly these days - he has short hair and glasses as Gene Watson. Depp's acting was superb as he plays the part of an innocent man caught up in a plot to assassinate Governor Eleanor Grant. Watson is no killer but his daughter who has already lost her mother recently is being held by captors who will kill her if Watson doesn't kill Governor Eleanor Grant. The film is shot in real-time more or less and it's on the edge stuff, every time Watson tries to get out of killing ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Johnny Depp may best be known for his roles such as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean, but he's also had a few great, lesser known roles, chiefly in Nick of Time, an innovative film that's set in real time whilst involving a man embroilled in a political intrigue plot. It very much seems to have inspired the brilliant TV show 24, and although it's very much shot like a TV-film, it's actually rather fun. The film revolves around Gene Watson (Depp), a nice but perhaps too polite banker whose wife recently died. Thus, he is left to take care of his daughter, Lynn, by himself. Meanwhile, ...  Read the complete review