Nick of Time is a 1995 American political action thriller film produced and directed by John Badham and written by Patrick Sheane Duncan. It stars Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton, and Courtney Chase. Taking place in real time, the film follows a public accountant who must assassinate a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom. It was released theatrically in the United States by Paramount Pictures on November 22, 1995.
In the meantime, Huey stalls the armed Jones, who is in the van with Lynn after she cannot get a signal from Smith. He then annoys her with a squeegee man scheme to the point of a violent confrontation in which she shoots his wooden leg. Lynn quickly tries to get out of the van when Smith opens the door and begins to shoot at her. Right after she hides under the seat, Gene appears and shoots Smith. Ailing from his wounds, Smith congratulates Gene for becoming a killer just before he's finally killed by him. Before Jones can get a clear shot at the father and daughter, Huey beats her unconscious with his prosthetic leg and wing tip shoe. The final scene shows the conspiracy mastermind stepping on Gene's broken wristwatch and leaving the hotel in a car.
Mr. Smith: There was this guy... Big guy, Irish-Italian. Red-faced, black-haired, jolly son of a bitch... Wait a second, nobody could make me laugh like him. He made a science of collecting jokes. We closed more bars together than I could count. Now, he was a pal. I loved the crazy mick. I'm not ashamed to say that, but... He was a fuck-up. He had this image of himself. He thought he was a con man. Always trying to shave the edge. He was nickel and dime. I'll always miss him. Tell me why.
Mr. Smith: That's right, I did. I killed him. He fucked up one too many times. So, I put a bullet in his eye. Then, I put two more into him just to make sure. Now, that was somebody I loved; I loved him! But I got the call, and I put him down like a sick animal. So... if you got doubts... about what's going to happen if you don't deliver, let me tell you something. I'll make gravy out of your little girl just to season that Black Irish cocksucker's meat. Now, you do what you're supposed to do, young man. You do it now.
This all takes place shortly after noon. Watson is told he has 90 minutes to make the hit. If he doesn't, his daughter will die. The movie itself clocks in at 104 minutes, but part of that is accounted for by the pre-story and the end credits. The action mirrors the 90-minute time limit so closely that it's a curious sensation, being able to look at the clocks on the screen to tell how much longer the movie has to run.
Not that Walken isn't dependable, too. He once told me he's always being stopped on the street, not by people who recognize him as a movie star, but by people who think they might have served time with him in prison. He has that look: The flat face, the cold eyes.
But somehow the whole undertaking seems too contrived. Comparing it with, say, Clint Eastwood and Wolfgang Petersen's "In the Line of Fire" (1983), I didn't feel the same sense of urgency. It's as if the time device distracts from the reality, by constantly reminding us it's only a movie. The efforts of the hotel staff seem suspiciously well coordinated (a well-timed food cart depends on the person pushing it being prescient). I was also bothered by the notion of putting the little girl in danger for 90 minutes - not because it was heartless (it's only a movie) but because an early scene made me doubt Ms. Jones would really kill her.
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Here we are, a nick of time
I wanna know what's on your mind
Is it you or are we through
I gotta feel what's left behind
Here we are
Here we are, a nick of time
I wanna know what's on your mind
Is it you or are we through
I gotta feel what's left behind
Here we are
Gene (Johnny Depp) is a mild-mannered accountant and widower traveling with his small daughter. In NICK OF TIME, a canny hired killer named Smitty (Christopher Walken) randomly selects Gene at a Los Angeles train station to carry out an assassination plot against the governor of California (Marsha Mason), who is making a campaign stop in a nearby hotel. Gene doesn't look like he would hurt a fly but Smitty and his cohort (Roma Maffia) assure him that they will kill his little girl if he doesn't comply. They give him a pistol and a picture of the governor and a strict timetable. Lest he think he can get help, Smitty follows him closely -- alongside his taxi to the hotel, into the men's room, to the bar, and when he stops to shine his shoes -- threatening Gene all along the way. Gene tries to alert the governor's security detail only to discover that they're in on the elaborate plot, which goes all the way up to her husband and the wealthy donors who are no longer happy with the way she's running things. Gene alerts the governor's aide but that just gets her killed. A sympathetic disabled veteran (Charles S. Dutton) enlists some courageous hotel workers to switch clothes with Gene so he can personally warn the governor, but she remains skeptical. Increasingly desperate and daring, Gene attends the event where the murder is to take place but fires shots at the ceiling and at the governor's betrayers instead of at her, forcing her own men to shoot at her. A newsman reports that the plot goes all the way to the top just as the wealthy donor who put it in motion steps into his limo and drives away.
Depp does a good job as a man torn by his instincts to do all he can to protect his daughter despite his naturally recessive personality. Walken has a blast as the whip-smart assassin who thinks of himself as a "people person." After Walken outlines the situation, Depp says, "You're outta your mind," and Walken deadpans, "What's your point?" The movie passes far beyond the bounds of credibility many times, and once the action starts it maintains a pretty one-note level of tension, but older teens who can take the strain may be willing to go along for the ride.
Each of these chapters from the story of Saint Nicholas has always seemed rather silly to me, a reflection of fears and superstitions from a time long ago. But this summer, as the news tells us repeatedly of girls and boys around the world who are innocent victims of a cruel adult world, I look for the calm presence of a man of peace like Nicholas.
"The hand belongs to Mr. Don S. Carter, male member of a honeymoon team on route across the Ohio countryside to New York City. In one moment, they will be subjected to a gift most humans never receive in a lifetime. For one penny, they will be able to look into the future. The time is now, the place is a little diner in Ridgeview, Ohio, and what this young couple doesn't realize is that this town happens to lie on the outskirts of the Twilight Zone."
"No," he said. "I'm concentrated on this job, for sure, and this game, essentially. But I think 10 years is a good time to sit back and reflect a little bit. So I think we're going to do that all when the season ends."
Watson gets into a cab and tries to report the criminals to the driver, but Smith, driving the van, hits the cab at the same time. When they arrived at their destination, Smith goes out the vehicle, handed over the steering wheel to Jones and took charge of Watson.
After the shoe polishing, Smith follows Watson who goes in the restroom. Actually, he is helped by Huey and others people and uses a decoy to make Smith believe he is in the toilet. Smith is tricked and when the hour of assassination has come, Watson had time to come back in the toilet. Smith accompanies him to the ballroom and posts himself in the projector room to watch Watson. However, Watson betrays him and shoots Smith instead of the Governor. Smith dodges the shoot and tries to shoot Grant but an assistant puts himself between her and the bullet, taking it instead.
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The objective is to align the clock's hands with the guide hands to match the clock in the center of the screen. The player controls both hands by tilting the Wii Remote clockwise or counterclockwise; naturally, the minute hand moves faster than the hour hand. The first player to match the time gets a point, causing all players' clocks to freeze until the next round starts. The first player to score three points wins.
- Arc Words: Numerous phrases revolving around time, regarding either having enough time to do something or running out of it.
- Assassination Attempt: The protagonist is "recruited" to assassinate Governor Grant by a cabal of disgruntled underlings. If he refuses, or fails, or otherwise disappoints the conspirators, they will kill the protagonist's young daughter in cold blood.
- Ax-Crazy / Psycho for Hire: Smith. To elaborate, when Eleanor manages to clue into the assassination plot and tries to escape, Smith begins firing into the crowd to get to her, resulting in numerous bystanders getting shot in the process.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Watson's Establishing Character Moment involves his "accidental" take-down of two rollerblading thugs when they are harassing his daughter.
- Gus, the bellhop, gets another one near the end when he kills one of the conspirators, albeit on accident, by ramming him into an electrical panel with a heavy cart.
- Bond One-Liner: "Nothing beats a good Wingtip!"
- Bulletproof Vest: One character finds cause to lament that the vests don't come with sleeves.
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Mentioned by Jones about Gulf War, when Smith and her discover they can't blackmail a French couple into doing their bidding, since they are foreigners.
- Chekhov's Gun: The radios' limited usefulness inside the hotel, and Watson's gun gets used at the end of the film to stop Smith from killing his daughter. Even the dish cart that factors into the final climax gets some screen-time a few scenes earlier.
- Chekhov's Gunman: If a character is focused on for more than one or two lines, they are guaranteed to become important later on. As the entire movie takes place in the same hotel, you tend to see the same people a lot. Played with in the end, with one background character who had been featured numerous times finally getting to play his part...as a newscaster reporting on the attempted assassination once everything is done.
- The Chessmaster: Huey seems to know everyone who works in the hotel, and quickly puts together a plot with different staffers helping Watson along the way.
- Closed Circle: Most of the film takes place in the hotel, over the course of an hour and a half.
- Clothing Switch: When Watson needs to evade Smith for a while, he and Gus trade clothes, letting him sneak off while Gus sits on the toilet and pretends to be him.
- Corrupt Cop: Officer Trust, one of Smith's co-conspirators.
- Creepy Stalker Van: The two villains from Nick of Time kidnap Gene Watson's young daughter, and issue him an ultimatum: assassinate Governor Grant, or little Lynn dies. The villains keep poor Lynn in an unmarked van near the site of the Governor's campaign speech.
- The Determinator: Smith is very determined to keep Watson from trying to seek outside help, following him everywhere, to the point of seeming Offscreen Teleportation.
- Dies Wide Open: Krista Brooks, the Governor's aide, after she tries to warn Grant's husband about the assassination plot.
- Disabled Snarker: Huey is partially deaf and missing part of a leg. He lays on the snark when people frustrate him, but is otherwise outgoing and friendly.
- Establishing Character Moment:
- The meek and mild-mannered Watson is trying to make a phone call at the bus station, while a group of punk rollerbladers harass his young daughter. After they refuse to go away after he asks them numerous times, he knocks over a garbage can in their path, sending them crashing to the floor with a deadpan "Oops" and a reminder to his daughter to wear a helmet and knee-pads when rollerskating.
- It's also this In-Universe; Smith witnesses the above scene and knows that Watson has what's needed to commit the assassination.
- Smith repeating "Keep your eyes peeled" to Jones: he is in charge and focused.
- Father's Quest: An interesting example occurs here where both father and daughter are kidnapped, but the former is obligated to kill a woman or else his daughter dies, so he instead makes an improvised plan to save her without becoming a murderer.
- Faux Affably Evil: Smith is initially professional and polite towards Gene the first time he meets him. He then blackmails Gene with his daughter's life in a very not-so-subtle way revealing the true monster beneath him.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: Huey beats one of the bad guys unconscious with his prosthetic leg.
- The Heavy: Mr. Smith directly antagonizes Gene but he's employed by an unnamed lobbyist, who, despite being the Big Bad, almost never appears while Smith, in contrast confronts the hero and is at the forefront of the kidnapping and assassination.
- Hope Spot: Watson tries to warn various people about the plot (cab driver, police officer, Huey, the Governor's aide) about the assassination plot, but is foiled at almost every turn (the cabbie doesn't even read the note he gives him before throwing it away, the cop is in on the assassination plot, Huey initially doesn't want anything to do with it, and the aide tries to get help, but is shot dead for her trouble).
- Idiot Ball: The villains are scarily competent at first, but suddenly when it's convenient for the hero their competence goes down a few notches and they start committing unnecessary blunders that could (and then did) destroy their Evil Plan (like killing the governor's personal assistant without coming up with an explanation for her absence), though it is implied that they did so out of sheer nervousness and desperation. The whole thing is unnecessarily risky, so it's amazing they didn't make more mistakes.
- I Have Your Wife: The bad guys are holding Watson's daughter hostage, in order to secure his cooperation. They keep showing up to remind him of the fact, just in case he gets any crazy ideas.
- Imagine Spot: Watson has a shootout where he guns down Smith, the corrupt detective, various other plotters and almost escapes, only to be grabbed by Smith (not dead after all) who throws him off a balcony, before it is revealed to be a dream he had after blacking out due to Smith choking him.
- Ironic Name: Officer Trust
- Just Between You and Me: After Eleanor gets shot, her husband gloats about the plan succeeding right in front of her face thinking she's dead. She's not.
- Large Ham: It's Christopher Walken as a bad guy. What do you think?
- Leonine Contract: Smith and Jones are holding Watson's daughter hostage. If he doesn't assassinate his target, they kill his daughter. Worth noting, they never promise to let her go afterwards, either.
- Lost in Transmission: Quite a few characters use handheld radios to communicate with each other, and throughout the entire film, it is demonstrated that the radios have lots of trouble inside the concrete structure of the hotel, with one background character eventually complaining about this problem. Why yes, this does become important later on.
- Mask of Sanity: Smith always appears as a charming, charismatic and sophisticated man. During the movie's course, expecially when his plan goes up in smoke, he however shows what he truly is: wrathful, psychopatic and murderous.
- Obfuscating Disability: Huey really is disabled. But he's an amputee, not (completely) deaf as Watson lead Smith to believe.
- Metal Detector Checkpoint: At one point, Watson has to go through a security checkpoint while carrying a loaded gun. The security guard turns off the his handheld metal detector while wanding Watson, demonstrating that the plot is wider-reaching than it initially appeared.
- Mexican Standoff: The trope is mentioned by Jones, when she's pointing a gun at Watson's daughter while he's pointing a gun at her.
- Mobstacle Course: Watson is able to invoke this trope by Firing in the Air a Lot in a crowded banquet hall in order to escape. Several hotel employees aid him by interfering with his pursuers, with one of the villains being accidentally killed by a bellhop in the process.
- No Name Given: The conspiracy's mastermind is never adressed by his proper name. Even in the credits is simply listed as "Mystery man".
- Non-Action Big Bad: The lobbyist leaves the action in his assassination plot to his subordinates, while he never gets his hands his hands dirty himself, riding away in a car when his plans are foiled.
- No, You Hang Up First: Done briefly between Watson and his daughter over Smith's radio, much to Smith's annoyance.
- Obviously Evil: The first time we see Smith, all dressed in black and sinister-looking, we can deduce he's anything but a good guy.
- Papa Wolf: It's Johnny Depp, and he's willing to do anything to protect his daughter. Aww.
- Pragmatic Villainy: When Brendan Grant realizes that his wife is not dead, and that she now knows he tried to have her killed, he just walks away, knowing that it doesn't matter what he does now.
- Real Time: With multiple shots of nearby clocks to show exactly how much time is passing.
- Retired Badass: Huey, a medically retired US Army artilleryman turned shoe shiner.
- The Reveal: Watson opens the envelope to look at the picture of his target. At the same time, some hotel workers unfurl a large re-election banner for Governor Eleanor Grant, who happens to be the woman in the photo.Watson: Oh shit.
- Right on the Tick: Quite a few shots of clocks and watches showing the time as the film progresses.
- Shock and Awe: The corrupt cop is killed when a bellhop rams him into an electrical panel with a heavy dish cart during the climax.
- The Sociopath: Smith. While great part of the conspiracy's members are quite unscrupolous people, they at least have some pragmatism and some standards. Smith on the other hand is the worst of all being a Psycho for Hire who goes even beyond his "job" by ruining an innocent man's life and being willed to kill unharmed bystanders (which is very unprofessional considering he has to keep a low profile).
- Strawman Political: The bad guys are willing to go so far as murder a political opponent.
- Til Murder Do Us Part: Brendan Grant, the Governor's husband, is also part of the assassination plot.
- Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: At one point Watson rides in an elevator with the Governor and her bodyguards. It gets more awkward when Smith joins them.
- Villain Ball: The Governor's husband just has to monologue over her after he thinks she's been shot. And then her eyes snap open as she comes to, and she stares at him in horror as her suspicions are confirmed.
- Villainous Breakdown: Smith totally losts his composure and flies into an homicidal rage when the Governor's assassination turns into a complete failure.
- Visual Pun: The whole movie is interspersed with shots of clocks, wristwatches, etc. showing just how much time has passed in the film. During the final confrontation when Watson foils the assassination, we see someone's watch get torn off and then crushed under foot, showing that Watson has stopped the clock.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: At the end of the film, the grey-haired politician departs in his limo just before the police arrive, making it unclear if he will see justice for his part in the conspiracy.
- Would Hurt a Child: They're serious when they say they'll kill Watson's daughter. Hell, they try to do it out of spite.
- Worthy Opponent: Smith finally seems to genuinely respect Watson after he shoots Smith to death in the climax.Very good, Mr. Watson. I told them I could make a killer out of you.
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